In the ninth book of the Key West Food Critic mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, is getting ready for her impending wedding to the man of her dreams, Detective Nathan Bransford. While this should be one of the most exciting times of their lives, very little is going to… Read more
In this very first book of the Key West Food Critic Mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, hasn’t yet acquired her dream job as a food critic but is very much enamored of her new home at the southern tip of Florida. She moved down to the island just a… Read more
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames is a debut novel about family transgressions as ancient and twisted as the olive branch that could heal them. Juliet Grames’ debut novel is a masterwork that will rightfully draw comparisons with Isabel Allende’s The House Of The Spirits… Read more
Spring Cleaning by international bestselling author Antonio Manzini is the fourth installment in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series, which picks up three days after Out of Season left off, as Rocco seeks revenge for a friend—and closure for himself. Vitality isn’t a word often used in descriptions of murder mysteries. The… Read more
Pamela Paterson’s weekly Knit & Nibble group—a collection of knitters who gather in the home of one of their own to knit for two hours a week while enjoying a tasty snack—has a new if somewhat disruptive member. Caralee Lorimer is an actress who’s just moved back to the town… Read more
It is so weird but great to go straight from the first book to the latest in the Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery series. Hopefully, I’ll be able to cover everything in between sometime in the near future, but it’s honestly pretty awesome to see how well Hayley and… Read more
Hayley Powell is a 35-year-old single mom of two teenagers who works as the office manager at the Island Times, the smaller of two newspapers based in Bar Harbour, Maine. Her deadbeat ex-husband’s alimony checks don’t come as often as they’re supposed to, so when her boss, Sal, offers her… Read more
Imagine the Golden Girls starting a detective agency and you’ll get the general idea of J. D. Griffo’s charming Ferrara Family mystery series. Our main character, 64-year-old Alberta Scaglione nee Ferrara, enjoys living a life of unexpected ease surrounded by family in Tranquility, New Jersey. There’s her irascible sister, Helen,… Read more
In Charity’s Burden, the fourth mystery in Edith Maxwell’s Quaker Midwife Mystery series, Rose Carroll seeks the true cause of a young mother’s death in turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. The fourth Quaker Midwife mystery finds our heroine, Rose Carroll, hard at work tending to the pregnant and postpartum mothers of Amesbury, Massachusetts… Read more
Equal parts hilarious and heartening, The Department of Sensitive Crimes is the first book in Alexander McCall Smith’s new Detective Varg series. Celebrated author Alexander McCall Smith turns his keen eye for human psychology to the wildly popular genre of Scandi-noir, as the spate of crime novels from Scandinavia that focus on… Read more
