Book Review: Vicki Doudera’s A House To Die For
Her controlling aunt is dying with one final demand. It seems a simple deal, but trouble is brewing as an obscure restriction scuttles the sale just as the buyer is found dead.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s A Royal Pain
1930s London and Lady Georgiana – thirty-fourth in line to the throne – has a lot on her plate, but little in her cupboards, when her new houseguest, the Bavarian princess, shows up.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness
Broke and fleeing an engagement, Lady Georgiana must clear her family name, when an arrogant Frenchman trying to swipe her family estate winds up dead in her bathtub,
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evan Only Knows
On a visit to his mother with his new fiancée, Constable Evan Evans is challenged to find not the stone-cold killer he expected but a scared young man who swears his innocence.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evans to Betsy
Evans and a psychic barmaid are on the trail of the missing director of the recently opened Sacred Grove New Age Center.
Book Review: Lisa Bork’s For Richer, For Danger
When the given name of Noelle’s mother traces back to a dead girl, Jolene Parker and her deputy husband Ray are devastated, even as Jolene races to find her true identity.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evan Can Wait
When a documentary filmmaker is found dead in Llanfair, Constable Evans steals the scene, uncovering a deadly plot reaching back to World War II.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Naughty in Nice
Lady Georgiana is sent to Nice on a secret assignment by the Queen that’s nothing to sneeze at — recover the Queen’s stolen snuff box.
Book Review: M.C. Beaton’s The Quiche of Death
Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely, and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest where the unsavory truth spills out.
Book Review: Laura Lippman’s The Girl in the Green Raincoat
A masterful thriller in the Alfred Hitchcock mode with a very pregnant, homebound Tess in the center of a murderous puzzle that could cost her her life and the life of her unborn child.