Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

October 19, 2022

The 38th Krewe of Hunters novel by Heather Graham, Voice of Fear, is the third in her recent trilogy featuring the Law triplets. It’s also the best of the three, and the least gruesome. Patrick Law, a criminal psychologist and psychiatrist, teams up with rookie...

Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower

September 18, 2022

Most of us would recognize the title of Amanda Flower’s first Emily Dickinson mystery, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, as a quote from a poem. In a departure from her cozy mysteries, Flower’s latest is a historical mystery grounded in the facts of...

Murder at the Capitol by C.M. Gleason

February 09, 2020

Murder at the Capitol is C.M. Gleason’s third Lincoln’s White House Mystery. She writes of Washington, D.C. at the beginning of the war with images I never really thought about. D.C. was really a small town in 1861, and a southern small town even more than...

Weekend in Washington, D.C.

February 20, 2018

My sister, Linda, and I went to Washington, D.C. this past weekend. First, though, I drove to her house in Columbus. Linda & I don’t believe in down time. Even though I drove for over five hours, we went to a play that night, “Daddy-Long-Legs”....

Calamity at the Continental Club by Colleen J. Shogan

July 15, 2017

I never saw an amateur sleuth so eager to investigate a crime as Congressional staffer Kit Marshall. Colleen J. Shogan’s Calamity at the Continental Club, the third Washington Whodunit, provides D.C.’s buildings for Kit’s playground as she and...