Looking for a few hours of lighthearted reading? You can’t do better than this one. Clearly I’ve been missing out, since this is the third book in this author’s series involving Hannah Garvey. The book starts out right where South of Sanity left off, which was somewhat disorienting for me because I had not read…
I’ve been hearing great things about Dennis Lehane for some time now, and I finally bought the first book in his series of mysteries set in Boston. All I can say is, believe the hype. Great writing and a funny yet tortured hero/narrator has me eagerly anticipating the rest of the series. Patrick Kenzie is…
I worked in a mystery bookstore for ten years. I started during a boom time when female authors were writing female protagonists like never before and reveled in that fact. Though I’m not sure why, one author that somehow always remained in the TBR category was Leslie Glass. Glass’s series protagonist is April Woo, a…
Many mysteries have used as their backdrop one of those quaint English villages that seem only to exist on BBCA, PBS, and A&E mini-series. If you are fond of cozy mysteries in quaint villages, you can find one in Sarah Caudwell’s The Sibyl in her Grave London barrister Julia Larwood discovers that her Aunt Regina,…
Recipe for a Food Mystery: 1 dash missing person 1 cup New Orleans atmosphere 2 cups New Orleans cooking Cut 1 cup investigation of missing person with 1 pound of talk about cuisine of New Orleans Season with a smidgen of action and suspense Stir ingredients and print them out. Serves an undetermined number of…
If you’ve been waiting impatiently for Seven Up (the latest Stephanie Plum novel) to hit the shelves of your local bookstore, let me tell you that it’s definitely worth the wait. Even though I think I know by now the lunacy that usually comes from Stephanie’s work as a bounty hunter, recovering fugitives who’ve jumped…
If I could take only one book with me to the deserted island this would probably be it. It has everything: mystery, romance, humorous parody, a hero to remember and more twists than an album of Chubby Checker hits. I’ve adored The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie since I was thirteen and I’m not…
Aaron Elkins has written sixteen books, but I just discovered him. My Lucky Day. While Elkins’ other fifteen books deal with forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver, Loot introduces a new leading man. Ben Revere is known as the Boston Art Cop because, as a former curator and an art historian, he has helped the police in…
South of Sanity is a sequel to East of Peculiar, and though I’d rate East a little higher than my fellow reviewer did (probably a B), I liked South even more. While Ms. Ledbetter’s humor is not as raucous, this one will appeal to fans of Stephanie Plum or Linda Howard’s Mr. Perfect. The opening…
Sally Harrington, introduced in Exposé, returns in what is a hard-to-classify novel. It’s a mystery, which echoes some of the humor of Evanovich and Cruisie, by an author who more recently has been doing romantic suspense. Set in the world of national news stations (a la CNN) The Last Lover also brings to mind Sparkle…
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