Book Review: Patti Larsen’s Drawn to Death
Phoebe Monday comes into her own through murder, theft, and an unexpected art exhibition.
Genre: amateur sleuth
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ A Fool and His Honey
When her husband’s young niece arrives on the doorstep with a new, unexpected baby in tow, Aurora is surprised, but the girl’s equally sudden disappearance in the wake of a killing drags the reluctant couple into a murder investigation.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Murder Takes the High Road
A librarian finds himself in a plot right out of one of his favorite mystery novels, even as he juggles his feelings about his ex and his significant other.
Book Review: Rita Moreau’s Wheeler-Dealer
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Wheeler-Dealerby Rita Moreau amateur sleuth, cozy mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Amazon on April 8, 2021 and has 334 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon First in The Ghost & Camper Kooky cozy mystery series about a pair of amateur sleuths and revolving around a sixty-something divorcée and the ghost that comes with her “new” vintage camper. My Take Let me start off with saying the premise is cute with its ghost needing to do good deeds to get out of purgatory and Mabel heading out to find a new way of life without her husband. The idea of getting out on the road and experiencing new things is exciting, and Bob is a trouper, helping Mabel find her camper and how to drive it. Irma makes the point that Mable shouldn’t “wait to do the things you should have done while you were living”. it’s too late once you’re dead. ”Just drive the truck, not the camper.” Moreau uses first person protagonist point-of-view from Mabel’s perspective, so we […]
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Mystery at the Masquerade
It’s a masquerade party with a ghost hunt at the end that ends in murder, and Ellery Page is knee deep with competing love interests.
Book Review: John Creasey’s The Toff Goes On
A frightened ballerina and a panicked Sussex village sets the Toff off as he pursues the trail of a Russian bad guy who inspires fear everywhere he goes.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Terns of Endearment
A working cruise rapidly turns deadly for the Langslow-Blake group when their ship breaks down in the Bermuda Triangle just after a passenger — the mortal enemy of a group of writers — jumps overboard.
Book Review: Jill Paton Walsh (Dorothy Sayer)’s The Late Scholar
It’s an embittered dispute at an Oxford college that requires the Visitor, Peter Wimsey, to decide the matter. Only, there’s the small matter of the Warden disappearing and inexplicable accidents that result in death that finds Peter and Harriet Wimsey staying on longer to solve the mysteries.
Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ The Five Red Herrings
During a painting retreat, a killer takes a creative approach to the ancient art of murder when a hated painter takes a tumble about which Lord Peter Wimsey has his suspicions.
Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ Strong Poison
Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her former lover died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman’s noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent.