The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime by Vicki Delany

January 14, 2025

In the tenth book in Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series, The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime, the author packs up bookstore owner Gemma Doyle and her friends and sends them to London. You would think West London, Massachusetts would be...

The Sign of Four Spirits by Vicki Delany

February 11, 2024

I’m a fan of Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries, and her amateur sleuth, Gemma Doyle. Although Gemma is on the periphery of the scene when the murder occurs in The Sign of Four Spirits, she works her unofficial investigation, using her...

The Game is A Footnote by Vicki Delany

January 09, 2023

Tricky, tricky. Vicki Delany’s latest Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery takes an unexpected turn two thirds of the way through the book with the arrival of Gemma Doyle’s sister, Pippa. The Game is A Footnote went from a small local mystery of a haunted...

A Three Book Problem by Vicki Delany

January 10, 2022

Any Sherlock Holmes fan will immediately recognize the reference to him with the title of Vicki Delany’s seventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery. Readers of traditional mysteries will be pleased with the country house setting in A Three Book Problem. This...

Vicki Delany, Guest Author

August 30, 2021

With Vicki Delany’s busy writing schedule, we’re lucky she had the time to write a piece for us. I know how popular her books are, and I jumped at the chance to introduce her new series. Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime...