Still Life by Louise Penny
In a non-mystery book club I belong to, another member and I stumbled onto a mutual interest in mysteries and she suggested this author to me. “Sill Life” is the first book in Louise Penny’s Chief...
View ArticleDeadly Deal by Fern Michaels
This book is part of a series about the Sisterhood, whatever that means. This book focuses on a surrogate parent and adoption ring that preys on parents who can’t have children of their own to scam...
View ArticleFinding Books that Interest You
Yesterday, I mentioned that I consider books from certain publishers over other publishers when looking for a book that interests me. While that’s not a surefire way to determine what you will or won’t...
View ArticleBleed for Me by Michael Robotham
While “Bleed for Me” is the first book I have read from Michael Robotham, it is not the first in his series about Joe O’Loughlin. I’m reading it for a book group and we were not able to get copies …...
View ArticleWhy Your Local Library and Bookstore
Why should you support your local library and bookstore when you can now just order books from home and have them delivered to your door? Because they’ll help you out, personally. Recently, I wrote a...
View ArticleThe Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
The full title of this book is “The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago.” In this title, they’re talking about what we now think of as the modern musical on...
View ArticleA Trail of Ink by Mel Starr
This is the third book in the Hugh de Singleton, surgeon series. In this book, Hugh has come to Oxford to investigate the theft of Master John Wyclif’s books. Master John is a secular scholar and, as...
View ArticleThe Hypnotist
This is yet another book I started reading because it was on a suggested reading list for those people who liked the Millennium series. In this story set in Tumba, Sweden, Detective Inspector Joona...
View ArticlePrincess Elizabeth’s Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
This book is the second in the Maggie Hope Mystery series. In “Princess Elizabeth’s Spy,” Maggie is enrolled at “Camp Spook,” a training camp for future MI-5 spies, but she does poorly with the...
View ArticleChild 44 by Tom Rob Smith
My mystery book group read “Child 44″ before I joined the group. One meeting, as we were suggesting books to each other, a number of people INSISTED I read this. “Child 44″ is set in Russia in...
View ArticleMurder in the Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey
This undertakeer-detective series set in Baltimore is a short and quirky series but worth knowing about. The main character, Hitchcock “Hitch” Sewell is an orphan who went to live with his aunt and...
View ArticleMurder of a Small-Town Honey by Denise Swanson
This book is the first in the Scumble River series. Scumble River is a small town off Interstate 55 in Illinois, about 70 miles southwest of Chicago. Being from that general area and having relations...
View ArticleNickeled-and-Dimed to Death by Denise Swanson
This is the second in the “Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery” series. In this book, one of Dev’s best friends, Boone, is charged with murder. She and their other BFF, Poppy, know he’s innocent and work to...
View ArticleDead Man’s Grip by Peter James
A friend and I had seen Peter James on an author’s panel at the Bouchercon crime writer’s convention, last fall. When he spoke about his writing and his books, both of us left that talk convinced that...
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