Without a Clue is a funny, genre-bending suspenseful romance, if that’s a thing! It’s quite short, so author Melissa Ferguson has been busy creating a heartfelt romance while also building a cozy mystery plot. She writes closed-door romances that are light and breezy, but with enough backstory to give the characters depth, so if you…
This is my first time reading this author and while many of her books have been romantic suspense, there is only a hint of romance in this one. This is a essentially a mystery novel. The story jumped around a bit in the beginning but got exciting towards the end and I couldn’t put it…
It’s 1934, and the normally idyllic village of Buncome-upon-Woolly has been the site of four homicides in the past year—an unprecedented crime wave. As a result, the village is overrun with Murder Tourists hoping to emulate the plots of their favorite detective novels and do a bit of amateur sleuthing. This irritates Georgiana Radcliffe, the…
Mysteries have always had their share of older protagonists, but Too Old for This introduces us to a unique – and deadly – variant of the irascible elder. The knock on her door is completely unexpected. Lottie Jones doesn’t have visitors. She plays bingo on Thursday nights and goes to church on Sunday morning. She…
Sherry Thomas takes a break from historical mysteries to turn her hand to a contemporary one featuring four librarians from Austin, Texas, whose quiet, ordinary lives are suddenly turned upside down by the murders of two patrons. The Librarians is clever and very well put-together, but I found it difficult to get into; there’s a…
I adore Mariah Fredericks’ Jane Prescott mysteries, and her YA novels are always fun. Sadly, The Girl in the Green Dress was a disappointment. This novel has as one of its leads Zelda Fitzgerald, a fascinating woman. But we never hear directly from Zelda. Instead, we spend our time in the dry-eyed, squaresville mind of…
I love many of Denise Mina’s books, but The Good Liar is not one. It begins well. Doctor Claudia O’Sheil, famous forensic scientist, is preparing to speak at a glittering fundraiser. In her folder are two speeches—one that preserves the official story of a murder that occurred one year ago, one that reveals her doubts….
As I’ve read books five and six of Kate Hardy’s Georgina Drake Mysteries and quite enjoyed them, I decided to go back to the beginning and read the first in the series, The Body at Rookery Barn, to see how Georgina ended up in Norwich with a penchant for finding dead bodies. It introduces our…
Of the many Lisa Gardner books I’ve reviewed for AAR, I’ve graded only one below a B-. It was the third book (Still See You Everywhere) in the Frankie Elkin series. Hoping that was just a fluke, I picked up the fourth in the line, Kiss Her Goodbye, expecting a classic Gardner read. That is…
Karin Slaughter’s We Are All Guilty Here opens with a disappearance. Two teenage girls vanish during a Fourth of July celebration in North Falls, Georgia—a town that prides itself on familiarity and tradition. Officer Emmy Clifton is devastated. One of the girls is the stepdaughter of her closest friend, and Emmy is determined to find…
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