Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Gone Gull
Cordelia opened a craft center, and Meg and family jumps to help. But acts of vandalism and the escalation that make them wonder if it’s pressure to make her sell?
Genre: amateur sleuth
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess’ The Painted Queen
A bust of Queen Nefertiti is stolen, and Amelia is the target of assassins while a brilliant criminal offers his final challenge… and may be unmasked at last.
Book Review: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Striding Folly
An anthology of the last three stories in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series that sees Lord and Lady Peter with their family.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Nightingale Before Christmas
It’s Mother’s fault no one has enough time to design their room, and its Meg’s bargain that finds her pitching in to deal with flamboyant personalities and massive egos.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Lord of the Wings
A suspicious Halloween fire burns the museum and all too soon a real body mars the town’s creepy fun, and it’s up to Meg to save Halloween.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Birches
It’s a battle over inheritance when the family dukes it out over who gets The Birches. It’s better than TV as the island soap opera begins, but it turns tragic as people begin to die.
Book Review: Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noël Balen’s Cognac Conspiracies
A French vineyard faces a hostile takeover by foreigners, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker audits the books only to be faced with an unexpected drowning.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s Small Plates
A quirky collection of nine short stories of mystery — six with Faith Fairchild and three not, some confusing, others intriguing.
Book Review: Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen’s Deadly Tasting
I’m very conflicted on how to rate this. Part of me wants to give it a “2” as I simply do not view this as a mystery. It’s more like a story about wine and the tasting of and a visit into the history of collaborationist France during World War II. It doesn’t feel like a legitimate mystery story. And yet, I do enjoy the comparisons.
I love reading about Benjamin tasting the wines. It makes me want to visit France
Book Review: Åsa Larsson’s Until Thy Wrath Be Past
Eager for adventure, Wilma and Simon take off. It’s Östen Marjavaara who finds them, and he swears off river water for the rest of his life.