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Amelia Peabody Series

A Mystery Lover’s Pub Crawl: Touring the World with My Favorite Sleuths in Search of the Perfect Pint

By Ellie Alexander

October 2, 2017

Go on a mystery lover's pub crawl with Ellie Alexander, author of Death on Tap, and make sure to sign in and comment below for a chance to win a copy of the first Sloan Krause Mystery! I was first introduced to the mystery genre by my grandmother, who had stacks upon stacks of dusty…

The Best Female Sleuths in Pop Culture, Part II

By Sadie Trombetta

April 1, 2016

Sleuth fans, we’re back again, and this time with an even longer list of the best women detectives, crime fighters, and amateur mystery solvers pop culture has to offer.  When we published a round-up of 13 of the best female sleuths earlier in the month, we were delighted to see what readers had to say…

Crime-Solving Couples—How Novel!

By Corrina Lawson

January 9, 2013

The fun of reading mysteries laced with romance is the double plot: 1) solve the crime; and 2) watch the characters banter while solving the crime. Romance is often about how they compromise and learn to trust. There’s no better way learn that than if you’re working together to stay alive. Note: I left Nick…

The Laughter of Dead Kings, a Vicky Bliss novel by Elizabeth Peters

Elizabeth Peters: Bliss Beyond the Mysteries of Egypt

By Clare Toohey

April 7, 2012

Prolific author, historian, and MWA Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters, aka Barbara Michaels and also nonfiction’s Barbara Mertz, knows how to create a popular series. Her most famous is the one featuring 19th-century amateur Egyptologist and archaeologist Amelia Peabody, which later involves her husband, Emerson, and even her grown children’s adventures. Are fans simply desperate for another…

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