Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Bastard’s Tale
Reporting on the politics and plotting of the royal court for an ambitious bishop, Dame Frevisse is drawn into a dangerous maelstrom encircling the throne of England.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s A Serpent’s Tooth
Homecoming in Absaroka County finds Longmire and companions hunting for a missing mother. A trail that leads to a cult with a vendetta and a pile of weapons.
Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s The Seventh Trumpet
Murder, intrigue, conspiracy, and great danger await Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf as they try to reconcile the murder of a young noble with a militant abbott.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Duck the Halls
In between shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating, Meg is busy detecting murder, arson, and who those holiday pranksters are.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Hen of the Baskervilles
A dastardly murder and the kidnapping of a prize chicken threaten to ruin Caerphilly’s state fair—fortunately, Meg Langslow is on the case.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s A Question of Honor
An horrific truth, a murder kept secret, from Bess Crawford’s life in India. Lying, damning facts that reveal a brutal reality that could have been her own fate.
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s Spirit of Steamboat
It’s ghosts of Christmases past in both Walt Longmire’s and Lucian Connally’s lives with a story that takes them back to another Christmas Eve in 1988.
Book Review: Jo Nesbø’s The Bat
Never one to sit on the sidelines, Inspector Harry Hole dives into a murder case only to discover a string of unsolved murders leading to a psychopath who may be onto them.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s A Murder on the Appian Way
In a Rome torn by riots and pulled apart by rival factions, Gordianus the Finder must uncover the truth about the murder of Publius Clodius, a populist politician whose assassination threatens to destroy the Republic.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s The House of the Vestals
An anthology of nine short stories with one short story that takes place well before this book’s publication (as #6 in the series) and the other eight taking place between the first and the second in the Roma Sub Rosa ancient Roman mystery series.