City of Secrets by Victoria Thompson is the second book in the Counterfeit Lady series starring on-the-run Elizabeth Miles. In the author’s note at the end of this novel, Victoria Thompson hopes that the reader had as much fun reading the novel as she had writing it. I would like to… Read more
A Shot in the Dark is a wryly entertaining new crime novel from Lynne Truss, New York Times bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Inspired by a visit to London’s famed Detection Club, Lynne Truss took the characters of her popular radio serial Inspector Steine and wrote this hilarious novel of bumbling policemen… Read more
Hannah Swensen Barton returns from her luxurious honeymoon cruise already fretting over married life. Her husband, Ross, is doting and kind, so her concerns run the gamut from silly (“Why didn’t he call me? Oh, he did, I just don’t understand how cell phones work!”) to serious (“Should we discuss… Read more
In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander’s bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward VII. It is the year 1901, and on her deathbed, Queen Victoria has pressed a note into… Read more
Our heroine, Hannah Swensen, is having dinner at the Lake Eden Inn with her new husband, Ross Barton, when talk turns to Christmas of the year before, where a dessert Hannah’s business partner made was the unfortunate star of a murder. Lisa Beeseman was rightfully proud of her Christmas caramels,… Read more
Hannah Swensen is getting married! But first, she has to try to win a reality cooking competition. The Food Network is holding a televised contest to find America’s best dessert chef, and Hannah is the only small-town contestant on the slate of five. So it’s a big thrill for everyone… Read more
Deck the Hounds, the 18th Andy Carpenter mystery, features the titular criminal defense lawyer, his faithful golden retriever, and author David Rosenfelt’s trademark humor. I honestly can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoy David Rosenfelt’s Andy Carpenter novels. Reading each new book is like enjoying a delicious hot… Read more
Mark Stevens’ fifth entry in the Allison Coil mystery series, The Melancholy Howl, skillfully braids interweaving threads of mystery as Allison and her friends test the definition of family and the dangerous boundaries of trust. Allison Coil is a hunting outfitter in the Flat Tops Wilderness area of Colorado, having traded in… Read more
The fourth installment of the Cajun Country Mystery series finds the small Louisiana town of Pelican recovering from floods that washed away far too many of their residents’ worldly goods. While some are forced to relocate – hopefully temporarily – the Crozat family has been fortunate in having ancestors who… Read more
Harms’ Way by Thomas Rayfiel takes us into the world of a super-max detention facility, painting a dark depiction of prisoners and prison life where despite the presence of America’s most psychotic killers, we find ourselves comfortably at home. This lyrical, almost hallucinatory look inside the mind of a serial… Read more
