Fans of Stephanie Plum will love Lois Greiman’s Christina McMullin, the sleuth heroine of Unplugged. Christina is bright and sassy, with an internal monologue that kept me in stitches. As this light-hearted mystery opens, Chrissy is battling a defective septic tank and an attraction to Lt. Jack Rivera, who accused her of murder in the…
May Day is a mystery, the first in a series of them set in a small town in Minnesota, featuring a librarian heroine. I was drawn in by the catchy title (apparently all of them will have a month in the title) and the cute packaging. The book to be a decent read, if not…
Chamomile Mourning is the sixth book in the Tea Shop Mysteries series featuring Theodosia Browning, who runs a tea shop and sleuthes on the side. Until this point I’ve enjoyed this series and found the details of running a tea shop particularly interesting. The author’s habit of including some of Theo’s best recipes at the…
I had waited for more than a year for the fourth book in what heretofore had been Kasey Michaels’ charming Maggie series. Unfortunately, High Heels and Homicide was not worth the wait…at all. Michaels introduced Maggie Kelly in Maggie Needs an Alibi as a failed romance writer who reinvented herself successfully as Cleo Dooley, author…
Mystery writer Michael Connolly is best known for his series featuring Los Angeles police detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch. A couple of years ago I read one of his books, loved it, and finally glommed his backlist. Connolly’s books have everything I want in a good mystery – a tight plot with surprising twists and turns,…
Eleven on Top is silly, but since it’s a Stephanie Plum mystery, silly is mandatory, so readers who want a non-silly mystery should pick up a P.D. James novel instead. Me – I like Stephanie and the gang, and I was in the mood for silliness. I found myself laughing a lot at this one….
In Dying for Siena author Elizabeth Jennings niftily plaits three strands of an unpretentious, airy tale of light fiction. Intertwined are the investigation of a murder in picturesque, cozy Siena, Italy, the coming of age of 27-year-old Faith Murphy, and the Italian joie de vivre and laid-back way of life as illustrated in Dante Rossi’s…
When my last package of review books arrived, Lethal was the first book I began reading – and of the batch it was the last one I finished. After reading and loving Loaded, Shari Shattuck’s debut, I was thrilled that the sequel was featured in Pocket Books’ new trade paperback line. Call me less than…
I first read Anna’s Book in 1998, before once again starting to read romance. I’d recently made my way through almost all of Stephen King’s oeuvre, and I remember asking the librarian if she had any good recommendations for fiction. She handed me this book, and I took it home and quickly became enthralled by…
I can sum up Sofie Metropolis in one sentence. My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Starring Stephanie Plum. Actually, Sofie is not quite as accident prone as Stephanie, and she is more competent at her job as a private investigator (well, slightly more competent). She is quite an engaging character, who in this book is…
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