At the Edge of the Woods by Victoria Houston

April 22, 2024

Victoria Houston’s recent books are more satisfying for those who enjoy the outdoors and reading about the tranquility of fly-fishing than they are for those of us who enjoy a satisfying mystery. In the latest book, At the Edge of the Woods, Sheriff Lew Ferris...

Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch

October 06, 2023

While Winter’s Gifts is a spin-off of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, it really reminds me more of Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries. Neither is a bad thing in my opinion, a spin-off or a similarity to Green’s series. FBI...

Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust by Mindy Quigley

May 29, 2023

I have interesting reactions to Mindy Quigley’s Deep Dish mysteries. I was a little worried I wouldn’t let her protagonist in the first book, Six Feet Deep Dish. I liked Delilah O’Leary, owner of a pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin. I also liked the...

Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley

August 22, 2022

Mindy Quigley kicks off a new cozy mystery series set in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin with Six Feet Deep Dish. I’ll admit I wasn’t so sure about the protagonist when I read Delilah (Dee) O’Leary’s description of herself as a micromanaging chef. But,...

Death Casts a Shadow by Patricia Skalka

August 21, 2022

Death Casts a Shadow is the seventh and final book in Patricia Skalka’s excellent Dave Cubiak Door County mystery series. Her notes at the end of the book say she completed the arc she had planned for Dave Cubiak. She took him from a broken man through almost...