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Janet Webb

Book Review: My Darling Husband by Kimberly Belle

By Janet Webb

March 3, 2022

Since the success of 2019’s Dear Wife readers have eagerly anticipated Kimberly Belle’s next domestic suspense thriller. My Darling Husband has a provocative opening—a man calls a journalist and says he’s finally ready to talk. Talk about what? Then the POV switches back in time to his wife Jade. Jade and Cam live in Atlanta…

Book Review: The Hanged Man’s Tale by Gerald Jay

By Janet Webb

March 2, 2022

Commandant Paul Mazarelle is coming off a huge professional triumph (The Paris Directive) when his new boss assigns him to Bastille Day parade duty. Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14th, is a major holiday and never more so than in 2002 when the theme was Franco-American friendship. The destruction of New York’s Twin Towers is…

Book Review: Dark Night by Paige Shelton

By Janet Webb

March 1, 2022

What is the appeal of living in a practically off-the-grid Alaskan community? For Beth Rivers, who writes popular thrillers under the name Elizabeth Fairchild, the allure of Benedict is its remoteness. Folks in Benedict (a fictional town) respect one another’s privacy. Thin Ice was the first in Paige Shelton’s Alaska Wild mystery series. The series…

Book Review: A Counterfeit Suitor by Darcie Wilde

By Janet Webb

February 25, 2022

Rosalind Thorne is a fixer. Self-effacing, well-connected, inventive, and persistent, she is a highly sought-after woman within the ton. She is respected for her ability to smooth over awkward social situations and discover the truth behind incipient scandals, thus preserving a person’s social reputation. Her clients are ladies of quality, women whose lives are confined,…

Book Review: The Deepest of Secrets by Kelley Armstrong

By Janet Webb

February 18, 2022

The Deepest of Secrets concludes Kelley Armstrong’s Casey Duncan/Rockton series. Here’s a quick “Cliff Notes” explanation of how Rockton came to be (excerpted from a review of This Fallen Prey, Rockton Mystery #3). First, let me explain Rockton to those new to the series: it’s a small, isolated town in the Yukon wilderness, built decades…

Book Review: A Valiant Deceit by Stephanie Graves

By Janet Webb

January 26, 2022

Pipley, Hertfordshire 16 August 1941.  Olive Bright is a twenty-two-year-old pigeoneer and would-be spy. In Olive Bright, Pigeoneer (Olive Bright Mystery #1) Captain Jameson Aldridge conscripted Olive and the Bright Lofts’ pigeons to help in the fight against the Nazis. Homing pigeons greatly aided the war effort on both sides of the Atlantic, making A Valiant…

Book Review: The Dead Cry Justice by Rosemary Simpson

By Janet Webb

December 20, 2021

The Dead Cry Justice by Rosemary Simpson is the sixth book in the Gilded Age Mystery series, where heiress-turned-sleuth Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter step out of the elite society of Gilded Age New York and venture into the city’s crime ridden streets and most dangerous neighborhoods to search for two missing children. If…

Book Review: The Dangers of an Ordinary Night by Lynne Reeves

By Janet Webb

November 23, 2021

Can a parent’s worst nightmare be the result of unintended consequences? Perhaps. Two high school girls go missing one autumn evening after they audition for a play at Boston’s prestigious Performing Arts High School. June Danforth and Tali Carrington are best friends. The last sighting of the pair is on a grainy surveillance tape. Two…

Book Review: The Bloodless Boy by Robert J. Lloyd

By Janet Webb

November 16, 2021

It’s not unusual for historical figures to appear on the pages of mysteries and such is the case with The Bloodless Boy. Robert Hooke, a noteworthy natural philosopher, and his former assistant Harry Hunt, the hero of The Harry Hunt Adventures, were well-known figures in post-Cromwellian London. On a snowy New Year’s Day in January…

Book Review: Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas

By Janet Webb

November 12, 2021

Sherlock Holmes’s sister Charlotte is a consummate detective. Clients flock to her door (or rather her sitting room, conveniently situated next to her fictionally ailing brother’s bedroom—the easier to “consult” with him). But who would anticipate that Moriarty, her sworn enemy, would turn to her in his hour of need? Moriarty has a tortured, tenuous…

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