Murder Off Stage by Mary Miley

September 03, 2023

I hadn’t read Mary Miley’s Roaring Twenties Mysteries, although I have read her Mystic’s Accomplice series, set in Chicago in the same time period, the 1920s. Murder Off Stage is the fifth in her Roaring Twenties series featuring Jessie Beckett, a...

Scandal Takes the Stage by Eva Leigh

January 16, 2023

It’s sometimes fun to read a romance trilogy, but not always necessary. Scandal Takes the Stage is the second in Eva Leigh’s trilogy, The Wicked Quills of London. I just happened to pick it up. I might go back and read the first in the historical romance...

Castle Deadly, Castle Deep by Veronica Bond

July 05, 2022

There’s just something about Veronica Bond’s Dinner and a Murder series that appeals to me. I don’t know if it’s the castle setting in a small town near Chicago. It might be that the actors in the Castle Dark theater provide a permanent cast of...

All About Me! by Mel Brooks

December 27, 2021

While Mel Brooks’ memoir is entitled All About Me!, it’s the subtitle, “My Remarkable Life in Show Business” that actually captures the book. Brooks does not come across as an egotistical person focusing on himself. He appears to be a generous...

Death in Castle Dark by Veronica Bond

August 29, 2021

Another reader commented that they weren’t sure Veronica Bond could sustain a series with the Dinner and a Murder Mystery theme. I’m not sure either, but I found the first in the series, Death in Castle Dark, to be a fun, engaging book with a charming...