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.
Genre: mystery
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.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s The Other Side
Five short stories in this anthology that revolve around the theme of The Other Side of life.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s Body in the Gazebo
Bonding with the in-laws, an embezzling Tom Fairchild, and nasty letters hearkening back to a murder in the 1920s keep everyone on their toes.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Is there a connection between the bludgeoning of a young woman camping on the moors, a motorcyclist stabbed in an ancient henge, and a theatrical producer shot on his night of triumph?
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evan and Elle
Llanfair is in a real stew when a French restaurant with a beautiful chef opens up in an old chapel. Things really come to a boil when a dead body is found.
Book Review: Lisa Bork’s For Better, For Murder
When a dead body rolls out of the shiny Ferrari in her exotic car showroom, it instantly takes Jolene Asdale from entrepreneur to murder suspect, even in the eyes of her deputy husband.
Book Review: Alice Kimberly’s The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion
When the local mailman inherits a haunted house and demands an exorcism, Pen must act fast to save her favorite ghost in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly.