Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s In This Grave Hour
Britain declares war on Germany and is mobilizing for the battles ahead. But when Maisie stumbles on the deaths of refugees, she suspects the enemy may be closer than they knew.
Genre: historical mystery
Book Review: Charles Todd’s Racing the Devil
Fulfilling a pledge made before the Battle of the Somme, five officers meet in Paris only to be stalked by a murderous driver, pushing them off the roads, one by one.
Book Review: Anthony Horowitz’s The House of Silk
Sherlock Holmes and Watson follow the twists and turns of this case that begins with a beleaguered art dealer and ends in the corrupt bowels of government.
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: Peter Tremayne’s The Second Death
There’s turmoil in AD 671 Ireland when murder and arson happen on the way to Cashel’s Great Fair, and Fidelma and Eadulf must solve this troubling mystery in time.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s The Shattered Tree
World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier’s background—and uncover his true loyalties.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Crowned and Dangerous
Being thirty-fifth in line means nothing is simple. But in love and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and Darcy O’Mara hope to bypass a few royal rules…
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s Journey to Munich
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent into Hitler’s Germany to retrieve valuable “property”.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s No Shred of Evidence
An apparent act of mercy repaid by an arrest for murder with four young women accused of the crime. A favor at the Home Office and Scotland Yard is called in.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s A Fine Summer’s Day
Charles Todd, A Fine Summer’s Day