The tidings of doom as this novel begins are coming less from actual fact than from a psychic acquaintance of Bryant’s whom he’s only too happy to insult as a cut-rate Cassandra. Still, Bryant can’t help but worry. Theirs is a partnership that relies on the other for balance, though the less generous could claim…
The Ferrara Family Detective Agency is going on vacation! Their youngest member, Jinx, has been assigned a plum reporting gig by her boss at The Upper Sussex Herald. She’s been given rooms at Icicle Lodge, a luxury resort in the snow-capped hills of northeastern Pennsylvania, just a few hours’ drive from where she lives in…
It’s a season of changes for Daisy Swanson, as her elder daughter, Vi, is preparing for a wedding and a baby on the way. Her younger daughter, Jazzi, is also continuing to try to improve her own relationship with her birth mother, Portia, despite the obvious discomfort of Portia’s husband, Colton. Daisy herself is navigating…
This first book in the Cider Shop Mystery series is an absolute delight! Set in the fictional small town of Blossom Valley, West Virginia, it features plucky heroine Winnie Mae Montgomery. As the novel opens, Winnie is worrying about the best way to save her family’s beloved apple orchard. She and her Granny Smythe live…
Welcome to Lark, a remote island in the North Atlantic inaccessible to visitors for seven months out of the year. Inhabited by a small, religious community, it proudly touts its safety and adherence to an almost-forgotten way of life, in an ongoing attempt to draw immigrants to supplement the dwindling local populace. Well, the right…
The 17th Chocoholic Mystery finds our series heroine, Lee Woodyard, feeling extremely grumpy. When the Bailey house near where she lives with her husband, Joe, goes up for sale, she’s happy enough to cheerlead his plans to purchase the house with her uncle by marriage, Police Chief Hogan Jones, with the intent of flipping it…
Teresa Dovalpage’s latest murder mystery Queen of Bones explores lingering grudges between old friends and lovers separated by Castro’s final sanctioned raft exodus. Teresa Dovalpage has written a truly atmospheric mystery that delves deep into the theme of homecoming and all the secrets we think we leave behind. The novel’s greatest strength lies in Dovalpage’s excellent…
Food blogger Hope Early loves her job, but she has to admit that heading back into a magazine’s test kitchen feels a lot like coming home. Not that she wants her old, high-pressure career of magazine editor back, but it is nice to be a guest contributor for a change—in this case for the popular…
Elizabeth Miles is contentedly settling into the life of a respectable young woman in New York City…or she would be if war wasn’t threatening to take away her beloved fiancé, Gideon Bates. As the Great War in Europe rages on, the draft age has been expanded. Gideon, an upstanding lawyer by trade and inclination, won’t…
There are two kinds of readers, as far as I can tell, when it comes to 1997’s Edgar Award-winner, The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook. There are those utterly perplexed by a crime novel that moves at what they deem a glacial pace and bears contents as literary as they are mysterious, and…
