Strangers at the Gate by Catriona McPherson is a twisty, fascinating mystery that asks the question: Who do you turn to when everyone’s a stranger and you’ve stopped believing your own eyes? Finn and Paddy Lamb know they’ve hit the jackpot when they each—he a lawyer, she a deacon—get plumb job offers in the prosperous Scottish village…
Strangers at the Gate by Catriona McPherson is a twisty, fascinating mystery that asks the question: Who do you turn to when everyone’s a stranger and you’ve stopped believing your own eyes? Finnie Doyle and Paddy Lamb are leaving city life in Edinburgh behind them and moving to the little town of Simmerton. Paddy’s been…
Scot & Soda by Catriona McPherson is the second book in the Last Ditch Mystery series featuring Lexy Campbell, where the Scottish-born California transplant sails into trouble when her houseboat party ends on a deadly note. I started reading the Dandy Gilver cozies by McPherson years ago. Dandy is a bored, upper-class housewife in 1920s…
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, John Grisham’s new legal thriller The Reckoning combines with Catriona McPherson’s Gothic mystery to make for a deadly week of books! See…
I do love a book with a house in it. When I write one, I draw a floor plan with cupboards, light switches and door hinges marked. When I read one, well, I draw a floor plan with cupboards, light switches . . . and I’m not alone. A quick search online yields the Waltons’…
From Catriona McPherson, the Agatha-Award winning author of Quiet Neighbors, comes a spine-tingling standalone Gothic thriller in Go to My Grave. Donna Weaver has put everything she has into restoring The Breakers, an old bed and breakfast on a remote stretch of beach in Galloway. Now it sits waiting—freshly painted, richly furnished, filled with flowers—for the first…
From Agatha Award-winning author Catriona McPherson comes Go to My Grave, a clever, spine-tingling standalone Gothic thriller—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! Donna Weaver has put everything she has into restoring The Breakers, an old bed and breakfast on a remote stretch of beach in Galloway. Now, it’s freshly painted. Richly furnished. Filled with flowers. And waiting for…
House. Tree. Person. by Catriona McPherson is an unnerving novel of domestic suspense (available September 8, 2017). Many have fudged a bit on their resume to get a good job, but Ali McGovern takes it to a higher level when she applies for a position as a beautician and art therapist at Howell Hall, a…
The Mystery Readers International have announced the nominees for the 2017 Macavity Awards. The Macavity Award—named for the “mystery cat” of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats—is an annual award celebrating the year's best in the mystery genre.
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…
