Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Gift of the Magpie
Meg’s hopes for a relatively peaceful (if busy) Christmas vanish when the she’s assigned to help a hoarder.
Genre: cozy mystery
Book Review: Leann Sweeney’s The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse
Jillian’s quiet life is shattered when her house is broken into and her Abyssinian, Syrah, goes missing. She “knows” her kitty’s been catnapped, but when her clue leads to a murdered body, suddenly all paws are pointing at Jillian.
Book Review: Kari Lee Townsend’s Tempest in the Tea Leaves
Using various fortune telling tools to interpret her visions, Sunny seeks to aid the residents of Divinity, New York. But when she uses tea leaves to read the frazzled town librarian, what lies at the bottom of the cup is anything but helpful.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Killer Dolphin
At the newly restored Dolphin Theatre, murder takes center stage.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Dead Water
A local spring believed to have miraculous healing properties is enriching many of the local residents until Miss Emily Pride inherits the place and forbids the promotions.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s The Last Mrs Summers
Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . .
Book Review: Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
The recently married Mrs. Pollifax off to China, where a young agent who trusts only her, Sheng Ti, holds the answers to a plot involving drugs, smuggled diamonds, a famous cat burglar-turned-Interpol agent, a psychic, and murder.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Falcon Always Wings Twice
Meg’s grandmother’s Renaisssance Faire is full of passion with a prankster, abused falcons, ambitious actors, and a saboteur — one of whom ends up dead with Faulk one of the suspects.
Book Review: Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs Pollifax on the China Station
The retired yet adventurous Emily Pollifax heads to China to rescue a prisoner for the CIA … and almost loses her life in the bargain!
Book Review: Dorothy Gilman’s A Palm for Mrs Pollifax
The CIA has sent Emily Pollifax to Switzerland to a famous health resort to track down a missing package of plutonium. It’s Mrs. Pollifax’s talents that make her perfect.