Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Twelve Jays of Christmas
This intrigue-filled Christmas mystery takes readers home to Caerphilly to join in Meg’s family’s holiday celebration—including, of course, another baffling mystery.
Genre: amateur sleuth
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
Two corpses at two different house showings — and all that math! — discourages Aurora “Roe” Teagarden about becoming a real estate agent. It’s obvious that there is a very cool killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who knows a great deal about real estate — and maybe too much about Roe.
Book Review: Kristen Painter’s Miss Frost Chills the Cheater
Someone is making Sinclair out to be the bad guy what with the sabotage and his being a necromancer. The question is, can Jayne, Winter elf, Jack Frost’s daughter, Santa Claus’s niece, heir to the Winter Throne and now . . . private investigator, chill the rumors that threaten the royal family and keep Sinclair from being permanently iced?
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ A Bone to Pick
After attending three weddings in less than a year, including her ex-boyfriend’s, Aurora Teagarden feels stuck in a rut. Then Jane Engle, an elderly member of the recently disbanded Real Murders club, dies and unexpectedly leaves her house and considerable estate to Roe But Roe soon realizes that her inheritance includes a tangled mystery in need of unravelling.
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Real Murders
Aurora Teagarden, small town librarian and true crime buff, becomes involved at the center of a murderous story of her own, as members of her book club are targeted in a series of copycat murders.
Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ Whose Body?
Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse, shaved after death, in the bath, naked but for a pair of gold pince-nez.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Secret at Skull House
Ellery Page is in hot water again as Police Chief Carson’s first-and-only-suspect.! Famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he’s purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently. And Ellery and Brandon have history.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Murder at Pirate’s Cove
Ellery Page is ready for a change, and when he learns he’s inherited a bookstore and a mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove, it’s full steam ahead. Until he discovers the truth of his inheritance and an enemy is found dead in the bookstore.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest
When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ The Falcon at the Portal
David and Lia got married! Then rumors surface that David is selling ancient artifacts. Amelia and company must expose the real culprit and Egypt is their best chance. Drug dealing, moral misconduct, then the question of an illegitimate child is thrown at Ramses’ head.