Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings

February 04, 2023

It seems this is the season for “Agony Aunt” mysteries. Although Mary Winters’ March release, Murder in Postscript is set twenty years earlier than Anastasia Hastings’ Of Manners and Murder, both books feature young women tasked with writing...

A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman

June 27, 2022

I remembered how much I enjoy Dianne Freeman’s Countess of Harleigh mystery series when I felt bad for Lady Frances and George Hazelton when I read that her mother had been staying with her for four months before her wedding. Frances’ family is nothing but...

An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn

February 15, 2022

Even with the seventh book in the Veronica Speedwell series, Deanna Raybourn is still able to surprise the reader. For that matter, An Impossible Impostor manages to shock the unflappable Veronica as well. In April 1889, Veronica and Stoker, the natural historian,...

A Fiancée’s Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman

July 27, 2021

Frances Wynn, the Countess of Harleigh, learned how a society marriage works in Victorian England before her first husband died in his lover’s bed. Frances’ fiancé, George Hazelton, loves and admires her. But, the fourth book in Dianne Freeman’s...

To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters

April 28, 2021

Reminder to myself. NEVER read someone else’s review before writing one of the same book. While I enjoyed Martha Waters’ To Love and to Loathe, her follow-up to To Have and to Hoax, one reviewers was so angry about a plot point that she went on about it....