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Eleanor Kuhns

Eleanor Kuhns is the 2011 winner of the Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books First Crime Novel Competition. A career librarian, her most recent historical mystery featuring Will Rees, a Revolutionary War veteran turned weaver, is Death in Salem. She lives in New York.

Book Review: The Cold Way Home by Julia Keller

By Eleanor Kuhns

August 19, 2019

In The Cold Way Home by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller, readers return to West Virginia and sleuth Bell Elkins who investigates Wellwood, a state-run psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. Bell Elkins, Nick Fogelsong and Jake Oakes take on a case of a missing teenager. A tip from…

Book Review: The Last Good Guy by T. Jefferson Parker

By Eleanor Kuhns

August 9, 2019

The Last Good Guy by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker is the third book in the Roland Ford series, an electrifying new thriller where the private investigator hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet. Roland Ford takes on a new case…

Book Review: Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear

By Eleanor Kuhns

July 9, 2019

Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear is the sequel to the internationally bestselling Sweet Little Lies and the second novel featuring DC Cat Kinsella—an investigator “on par with Susie Steiner’s and Tana French’s female detectives” (Kirkus, starred review). In Stone Cold Heart, the sequel to Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear, Cat Kinsella has returned…

Book Review: Paper Son by S. J. Rozan

By Eleanor Kuhns

July 1, 2019

Paper Son by S. J. Rozan is the 12th book in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery series, which takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community. In Paper Son, the newest of S. J. Rozan’s Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries, Lydia’s mother surprisingly asks her…

Book Review: The Assassin of Verona by Benet Brandreth

By Eleanor Kuhns

May 7, 2019

The Assassination of Verona by Benet Brandreth is the second in the William Shakespeare Thriller series, full of conspiracy, intrigue and rapier-sharp wit. Instead of a traditional whodunit, The Assassin of Verona is more of an espionage thriller set in 1586 in Italy. This novel proposes to answer the mystery of Shakespeare’s doings in Italy…

Book Review: Cat Chase the Moon by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

By Eleanor Kuhns

April 22, 2019

In Cat Chase the Moon—the 21st book in Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s Joe Grey Mystery series—feline P. I. Joe Grey and his friends pounce on three investigations that may connect to one larger mystery, including one case that is very personal. Joe Grey, one cat in a family of very unusual cats, is performing his usual…

Book Review: An Artless Demise by Anna Lee Huber

By Eleanor Kuhns

April 2, 2019

In Anna Lee Huber’s An Artless Demise, the seventh book in her national bestselling Lady Darby mystery series, Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won’t last for long when her past comes back to haunt her. As this latest installment of the Lady Darby mysteries begins, Lady Darby and…

Book Review: The Black Ascot by Charles Todd

By Eleanor Kuhns

February 5, 2019

Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in The Black Ascot by Charles Todd, the 21st installment of the acclaimed New York Times-bestselling series. A chance meeting with a released convict gives Rutledge a clue to the whereabouts of Alan Barrington, an escaped murderer who has been missing since the Black…

Book Review: No Mercy by Joanna Schaffhausen

By Eleanor Kuhns

January 15, 2019

In No Mercy by Joanna Schaffhausen, Police Officer Ellery Hathaway has been suspended from the force for killing a man in cold blood. Ellery feels no remorse. Take down the monster when you have a clean shot because you might not get a second one. This philosophy had landed her in hot water now, but…

Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

Book Review: Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

By Eleanor Kuhns

November 27, 2018

Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson is the third Gilded Age New York mystery featuring heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter. When Claire Buchanan arrives in the office of MacKenzie and Hunter, she claims her sister was murdered. An opera singer, Claire had been in Europe when her sister died and…

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