Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Murder with Peacocks
It’s three weddings and a murder that introduces blacksmith Meg Langslow and her whacky family. It’s only the “gay” and gorgeous Michael who keeps Meg sane.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Kristen Painter’s Wrapped Up in Christmas
Santa’s Workshop in Nocturne Falls is short-staffed, so Jayne Frost and Sinclair Crowe detour to the town where someone is breaking in to people’s houses. Worried that this will ruin Christmas, Jayne decides to do everything in her power to put an end to the problem.
Book Review: Kristen Painter’s Lost in Las Vegas
A royal road trip takes the Princess and Prince Consort of the North Pole all the way to Las Vegas where trouble finds them. Now Sinclair’s entire family is gambling on him and Jayne figuring out what’s gone dangerously wrong with the cool new magic trick at the end of his parents’ show.
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.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Hand in Glove
It’s a tangled set of relationships with family, trustees, theft, and a genealogical obsession until an irritating country gent is murdered amid all the friction in an English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. After a flamboyant dowager’s treasure hunt party, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn’s suspects are the tangle amidst the half-truths and too many motives.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Clutch of Constables
It’s five days out of time on a riverboat, exactly what Troy Alleyn needs until she meets the passengers and one of them disappears.
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: Ngaio Marsh’s False Scent
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.False Scentby Ngaio Marsh detective mystery, forensic mystery, vintage mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Felony & Mayhem Press on February 15, 2015 and has 255 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Dead Water, Killer Dolphin, A Man Lay Dead, Enter a Murderer, The Nursing Home Murder, Death in Ecstasy, Vintage Murder, Artists in Crime, Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar, Surfeit of Lampreys, Death and the Dancing Footman, Died in the Wool, Swing, Brother, Swing, Night at the Vulcan, Colour Scheme, Spinsters in Jeopardy, Scales of Justice, The Death of a Fool, Singing in the Shroud, Clutch of Constables, Hand in Glove, When in Rome, Tied Up In TinselTwenty-first in the Inspector Roderick Alleyn vintage mystery series and revolving around a Scotland Yard detective in the late 1950s. My Take Well, it does tell you how great Miss Bellamy’s ego is when it starts off with her fantasy about who’s attending her funeral! […]