The Snow Lies Deep by Paula Munier

December 02, 2025

I used to turn to Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache books when I wanted beautiful writing. Now, I do the same with Paula Munier’s mysteries. In The Snow Lies Deep, the seventh Mercy Carr mystery, Munier describes a Vermont Christmas with poetic, magical turns...

Hunter’s Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor

August 03, 2025

I don’t know exactly what to say about Sarah Stewart Taylor’s Hunter’s Heart Ridge, the second in her Bethany, Vermont series. I like her two main characters, Vermont State Police detective Frank Warren and Alice Bellows, a widow who grew up in...

The Night Woods by Paula Munier

October 07, 2024

Paula Munier’s Mercy Carr mysteries are some of my favorites. Although The Night Woods is the sixth in the series, following my favorite, Home at Night, it can stand alone. It’s another complex story with literary themes woven into it. This time, Munier...

Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor

August 06, 2024

Because I’m such a fan of Sarah Stewart Taylor’s Maggie D’Arcy mysteries set in Ireland, I was a little reluctant to try the first in a new historical mystery series set in small-town Vermont in the mid-1960s. I should have known Taylor...

Mud Season by Susan Stewart Taylor

June 12, 2024

Susan Stewart Taylor’s first Bethany, Vermont mystery, Agony Hill, is scheduled for release on August 6. In the meantime, she introduces one of her main characters, as well as the town of Bethany, in her short story “Mud Season”. Taylor, the author...