Who Speaks for the Damned is book fifteen in C.S. Harris’ series of historical mysteries featuring aristocratic sleuth, Sebastian St. Cyr, and could, at a pinch, be read as a standalone. While earlier books in the series featured a long-running plotline concerning Sebastian’s his search for the truth about his origins, that doesn’t really feature…
Take Veronica and Stoker’s steamy attraction, add an engrossing mystery, and you’ve got another hit in the Veronica Speedwell series. A Murderous Relation starts off where A Dangerous Collaboration ends – right after Stoker has uttered the words “Veronica Speedwell, I meant it then and I mean it now and I shall mean it with…
A weak mystery and problematic history made Above the Bay of Angels my most difficult read of 2020 (so far). While I’ve loved previous novels by Rhys Bowen, this book was an absolute struggle to get through. Bella (Isabella) Waverly’s childhood is idyllic. Her father is an aristocrat estranged from his family, but he’s landed…
I’ve been meaning to pick up one of M.J. Rose’s novels for the past couple of years, but I always seemed to get distracted by other books. But when I learned her latest novel, Cartier’s Hope, was set in early 1900’s New York, I moved it to the top of my TBR list, and I’m…
In this third installment in her Counterfeit Lady series, Victoria Thompson continues the story of con-woman-turned-society-lady Elizabeth Miles, a self-reliant young woman determined to right some of the wrongs society has done to others of her sex. This is not my favorite book in the series, but it’s still an enjoyable read, especially if you’ve…
Note: This title is part of an ongoing series featuring the same characters, so there will be spoilers for the previous books in this review. This third book in Anna Lee Huber’s series of mysteries featuring the intrepid Verity Kent sees our eponymous heroine and her recently returned husband Sidney investigating not one but two…
Fans of historical mysteries who have not yet read the Bess Crawford series by the writing duo known as Charles Todd should do so immediately. Set during the peace accords in France following WWI, A Cruel Deception (the eleventh in the series) finds Bess stepping away from her nursing duties to do a favor for…
Adelaide (Addie) Compton is back, and so is her dead husband, Rupert, who is still her guardian angel, searching for the right deed that will get him through the Pearly Gates and into the good graces of The Fellow Upstairs. They continue to struggle with this as Adelaide struggles to enjoy a good time without…
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton The Affair of the Mysterious Letter is one of those books that defies categorisation. Part sci-fi/fantasy, part paranormal, part mystery, it’s what might have resulted had Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got drunk one night in company with Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett – slightly bonkers, devastatingly witty and wholly entertaining –…
The Art of Theft is the eagerly awaited fourth book in Sherry Thomas’ superb series of historical mysteries starring Charlotte Holmes, a most unusual young woman whose keen, logical mind and incredible deductive skills would have been completely disregarded in Victorian England had she not invented the infirm but brilliant brother Sherlock who is –…
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