Narrated by Joel Froomkin Peril by Post is book eight in the John Pickett Mysteries and the latest release. It was also my first John Pickett (although I have a couple of others on the digital TBR). I didn’t have any trouble jumping in here but would say to listeners that if they’re sensitive about…
I love old Hollywood, its mysteries and its scandals, so The Jean Harlow Bombshell, which focuses on a biographer who was murdered for digging up a fresh secret about the beloved Hollywood star and the assistant left behind to deal with the criminal fall-out seemed a natural fit for me. But while the mystery itself…
Originally published in the UK under the title The Love Letter, Lucinda Riley’s The Royal Secret is finally available to US readers. It’s a novel that’s hard to categorize as it contains elements of romance, mystery, and a touch of historical intrigue, but whatever one chooses to call it, it’s a fast-paced read that’s sure…
Narrated by Davina Porter Mild series spoilers follow. Who Slays the Wicked is not the book to start with. For maximum enjoyment, begin at book one What Angels Fear. Who Slays the Wicked is book 14 of C.S. Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries. It is April 1814 and the allied army is marching into Paris…
Yay! A new historical mystery author with a great start to a series! Death and the Harlot, by Georgina Clarke, is book one in the new Lizzie Hardwicke series and it’s a riveting beginning. Lizzie Hardwicke is one of the luckier harlots in Georgian London; she has a roof over her head, regular meals, decent…
Amanda Quick’s slick, fun mystery series, set in the murder-laden town of Burning Cove in1930s California continues with Tightrope, a story about a former trapeze artist and the hired muscle who soon becomes the only man she can trust. When the book opens, second-generation trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn, the Flying Princess of the Ramsey Circus,…
Sometimes it’s the big picture that draws a person into a story. Combining strong fantasy elements with interesting worldbuilding and character work, The Alchemist of Lost Souls is less interesting for its telegraphed mystery than it is for the richness of its universe, but does not stand well on its own, nor does it contain…
The Lost History of Dreams, Kris Waldherr’s gothic, romantic drama is not a happy book, yet it’s strangely captivating. Former Oxford scholar Robert Highstead has an unusual occupation – photographing corpses and the dying and making them look lifelike as possible. And he has a problem that complicates that profession – he can see ghosts…
Do you love historical romance and/or historical mysteries? Then you should be reading (or listening to) the Sebastian St. Cyr series. Who Slays the Wicked, the fourteenth book in this long-running series is another compelling entry – although it isn’t quite as strong as many of the novels that precede it. As usual, Ms. Harris…
In The American Agent, the fifteenth novel in the Maisie Dobbs series, we find our titular heroine working as a volunteer ambulance driver during the 1940 London Blitz. A tale of triumph over tragedy, it is sure to please the author’s many fans. While the mystery portion might work fine as a standalone, the book…
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