Saturday night, Malice Domestic presented the 29th annual Agatha Awards at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The Agatha Awards honor the traditional mystery, a genre loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex or excessive gore/gratuitous violence. Newcomers and veterans in the genre gathered to celebrate the best of the best of…
Murder in Morningside Heights by Victoria Thompson is the 19th book in the Gaslight Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Murder in Morningside Heights is the 1st book I’ve read in the Gaslight Mystery series by Victoria Thompson, but I was able to jump into this series with no problem.…
The Reek of Red Herrings by Catriona McPherson is the 5th book in the Dandy Gilver Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Dandy Gilver—forty-something wife of the phlegmatic Hugh and mother to two grown sons—has reluctantly agreed to a Christmas holiday in North Norfolk with family members keen to spend…
Delivering the Truth by Edith Maxwell is the 1st book in the Quaker Midwife Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Life is rewarding for Rose Carroll. A midwife in Amesbury, Massachusetts, she provides care and support for newly born babies and mothers. But life is also challenging, as Rose is…
Whispers Beyond the Veil by Jessica Estevao is the 1st in a dazzling new historical mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel! When you mention Spiritualism, medicine shows, and con-artists in the same sentence, you’re either talking about my weekend or tempting me to read your book. When I heard about Jessica…
