Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Feuille D'Album by Katherine Mansfield

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Feuille D'Album by Katheri...:   I discovered this story accidentally when I ran across some short story collections by Katherine Mansfield on Amazon. I had not read anyth...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Murder on the Yellow Brick Road: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Murder on the Yellow Brick Road: Stuart M. Kaminsky: The Toby Peters mystery series is set primarily in Hollywood, California. Each book in the series is centered around a celebrity. Toby is a ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: "Kill Now—Pay Later" by Rex Stout

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: "Kill Now—Pay Later" by R...:   I read "Kill Now—Pay Later" in June, I think. Or it may have been early July. I have been having trouble reading short stories l...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: The Best American Mystery...:   The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century is an anthology edited by Tony Hillerman and Otto Penzler and published in 2000. The ant...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in May 2026

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in May 2026:   I read nine books in May, more than I expected to, but it is a good thing, because with only 3 days left in June, I have only read three b...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The City in the Middle of the Night: Charlie Jane Anders

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The City in the Middle of the Night: Charlie Jane ...: My son read this book first. He liked it, with reservations. (More about that later.) The subject interested me, so I decided to read it als...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Ivy Tree: Mary Stewart

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Ivy Tree: Mary Stewart: This story is about a young woman, Mary Grey, who bears a strong resemblance to the heiress to a fortune, Annabel Winslow, who disappeared s...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Stories from Murder and Other Acts of Literature

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Stories from Murder and Oth...: Murder and Other Acts of Literature is an anthology of 24 short stories that include a crime but are written by authors who are not crime f...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: "A Touch of Petulance" by Ray Bradbury

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: "A Touch of Petulance" by ...:   The story I am featuring comes from the collection Killer Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury . It was published by Hard Ca...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Signing up for 20 Books of Summer 2026

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Signing up for 20 Books of Summer 2026: This is my eleventh year of participating in the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge. The event was originally hosted by Cathy at 746Books ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in April 2026

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in April 2026: Basically in April I read four mystery novels and one graphic novel. So, not a lot of variety. But I enjoyed all the books, and that is what...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: More Stories from Three for the Chair

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: More Stories from Three for...:   A brief overview of the Nero Wolfes series by Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe is a genius who supports himself (and his household) as a private dete...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Tatiana: Martin Cruz Smith

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Tatiana: Martin Cruz Smith: In late April, I read Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith, the eighth book in the Arkady Renko series. This is sort of a police procedural set in ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Six Degrees of Separation: From Wild Dark Shore to Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Six Degrees of Separation: From Wild Dark Shore to...:   The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Kate at booksaremyfavoriteandbest . The idea behind the meme is to start with a book and ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Goodbye to Berlin by Christ...:   Description on the back of the book: Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin s...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in March 2026

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in March 2026:   March was a very good reading month for me. I enjoyed every book I read. There was enough variety to make me happy. A nonfiction graphic n...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: "Lucky Dip" by Liza Cody

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: "Lucky Dip" by Liza Cody: A few weeks ago I transferred a group of books from one wire cube to a new improved one. In the back of the cube, I discovered some books I ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: More Hercule Poirot Short Stories

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: More Hercule Poirot Short S...:   These stories came from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories ; the collection has 867 pages and was published in 1999. It consists o...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L'Engle

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L'Engle: This is the story of Margaret Murry (called Meg) and her younger brother Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend, Calvin. Calvin just shows ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L'Engle

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L'Engle: This is the story of Margaret Murry (called Meg) and her younger brother Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend, Calvin. Calvin just shows ...