A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

October 17, 2021

I have to admit I meant to read the earlier Hawthorne and Horowitz mysteries, The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death, but I never got around to them. If you’re like me, and just want to start with the third in the series, A Line to Kill, you’ll be...

Maggie Finds Her Muse by Dee Ernst

May 12, 2021

I would have missed this book if my friend Kaye Wilkinson Barley hadn’t mentioned it. But, then, Kaye’s read everything that has come out in recent years set in Paris. Dee Ernst’s romantic comedy, Maggie Finds Her Muse, hit all the right notes for...

Fiction Can Be Murder by Becky Clark

April 10, 2018

Becky Clark, the author of “funny mysteries with a dash of murder”, launches a new series with Fiction Can Be Murder. But, humor isn’t universal, and I found the ending absurd and the motivation improbable. However, I know others will enjoy...

Edited Out by E.J. Copperman

May 16, 2017

Although E.J. Copperman’s Edited Out is fun with its dry humor and old movie references, I’d still recommend that readers start with the first in the series, Written Off. It’s easier to suggest that than to explain how Rachel Goldman, a mystery...

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

March 27, 2017

There was something poignant about reading Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s memoir, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. I checked it out of the library when I read her piece in The New York Times, “You May Want to Marry My Husband,”http://nyti.ms/2mFk0fE....