Book Review: Charlotte MacLeod’s Wrack and Rune
A gruesome murder leads Professor Peter Shandy to uncover an ancient Viking curse.
Genre: amateur sleuth
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Rockin’ Around the Chickadee
Delaney’s pregnancy is problematic and everyone is under orders to keep her quiet and healthy. It makes for a quiet Christmas around the Langslow-Waterston’s without all the family and parties. Then a body is found in Meg and Michael’s yard.
Book Review: Jennifer Willis’ Tainted Treasure
A dead treasure hunter. A mystery illness. And the world’s worst Valentine’s Day.
Book Review: Jennifer Willis’ Sinister Snare
A televised ghost hunt, a dark secret, and a ghastly crime scene. All eyes are on surly medium Suri Mudge.
Book Review: Charlotte MacLeod’s The Luck Runs Out
Professor Peter Shandy is in trouble up to the eyeballs again. With the Annual Competition of the Balaclava County Draft Horse Association coming up, some saboteur has reversed all the horseshoes nailed to the stable doors of Balaclava Agricultural College as good luck charms. Shandy predicts dire happenings. His predictions are nowhere near dire enough.
Book Review: Charlotte MacLeod’s Rest You Merry
His plans thwarted, a university scrooge returns home on Christmas Day to find a murdered librarian.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!
It’s shaping up to be a dramatic weaponsmithing reality show when Meg is forced into competition up against several blacksmiths who think women have no place in the profession. Keep in mind that these people wield large hammers and make swords and have forges full of fire at their disposal.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Birder, She Wrote
It’s murder when a long lost graveyard is freshly used and the investigation delves deep into bees, NIMBYs, and blackmail.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Dashing Through the Snowbirds
An ill-timed frantic end to a software project finds Meg and Michael with yet more guests just before Christmas. Their rude and incompetent boss doesn’t make life any easier for anyone . . . until he’s found dead.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Round Up the Usual Peacocks
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Round Up the Usual Peacocksby Donna Andrews amateur sleuth, cozy mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Minotaur Books on August 2, 2022 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Real Macaw, Some Like It Hawk, The Hen of the Baskervilles, Duck the Halls, The Good, the Bad, and the Emus, Lord of the Wings, The Nightingale Before Christmas, Die Like an Eagle, Gone Gull, How the Finch Stole Christmas!, Toucan Keep a Secret, Lark! The Herald Angels Sing, The Falcon Always Wings Twice, The Gift of the Magpie, The Twelve Jays of Christmas, Murder with Peacocks, Murder with Puffins, Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, We’ll Always Have Parrots, Owls Well That Ends Well, Terns of Endearment, Between a Flock and a Hard Place, No Nest for the Wicket, The Penguin Who Knew Too Much, Cockatiels at Seven, Six Geese A-Slaying, Stork Raving Mad, Owl Be […]