Book Review: Charles Todd’s The Confession
A dying man confesses that he killed his cousin during the Great War. Then his body is found in the river, and Inspector Ian Rutledge’s only clue is a gold locket.
Publisher: William Morrow
Book Review: Lynsay Sands’ The Bite Before Christmas
An anthology of two stories about vampires and Christmas from Lynsay Sands’ Argeneau series and Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series.
Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Baltimore Blues
Unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan knows the primary suspect in the murder of notorious attorney Michael Abramowitz, and the time is ripe for a career move.
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: Charles Todd’s A Bitter Truth
WWI nurse Bess Crawford helps a frightened young woman, only to discover no good deed ever goes unpunished when she finds herself falsely accused of murder.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Sleigh
A wrenching Christmas in Sanpere when Faith Fairchild discovers a body in the sleigh and a newborn babe appears in a manger, the events revealing the truth.
Book Review: Diane Mott Davidson’s Crunch Time
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.Crunch Timeby Diane Mott Davidson amateur sleuth, cozy mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by William Morrow on April 5, 2011 and has 471 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Sixteenth in the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries cozy mystery series set in the Aspen area in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado with an amateur sleuth of a chef. My Take While I enjoy the homey qualities of this series — Tom is so very patient and I just love the descriptions of the food that everyone creates in this story, I’m getting rather tired of Goldy. She’s so nosy and I don’t really see where she can really do that much anymore now that pretty much everyone in town knows about her detecting. I’m rather surprised that Tom hasn’t dumped her for being such a pain. And I miss Julian. Nor was there much interaction with Marla or Archie; things are rather tame without the Jerk. Not that I didn’t cheer when he died! This story just has a rather tired […]
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Ivy
Triumph turns to tragedy as Barbara Bishop’s Agatha Christie-like plot churns away as Faith Fairchild cooks the meals and investigates for the truth.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s A Lonely Death
Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge investigates the murder of three men in a Sussex village. Then another is garroted. The only clue an ID disc in their mouths.
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ A River in the Sky
Banned from Egypt, Amelia Peabody and Emerson head to Palestine to dig up the Ark of the Covenant and spy on the seemingly inept Morley for British Intelligence.