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: Going to Beautiful: Anthony Bidulka

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Going to Beautiful: Anthony Bidulka:   From the description at Goodreads : International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy famil...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea: Rebecca Thorne

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea: Rebecca Thorne:   I first saw this book when my son purchased it at the book sale. The copy he got was especially nice, with sprayed edges (in a nice turquo...

Gravetapping: Review: "Photograph" by Brian Freeman

Gravetapping: Review: "Photograph" by Brian Freeman:   Photograph by Brian Freeman Blackstone, 2025     In Brian Freeman’s excellent psychological thriller, Photograp...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Pesticide: Kim Hays

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Pesticide: Kim Hays: This summary is from Kim Hays' website : In Pesticide , a street party in Bern morphs into a brutal riot. Hours later, with the medieval...

The Rap Sheet: Revue of Reviewers: 9-4-25

 The Rap Sheet: Revue of Reviewers: 9-4-25

Washington Post Book Club: The death of book reviews is not greatly exaggerated, but it’s greatly protracted by Ron Charles

 Washington Post Book Club:  The death of book reviews is not greatly exaggerated, but it’s greatly protracted by Ron Charles 

Gravetapping: Review: "The Blue Horse" by Bruce Borgos

 Gravetapping: Review: "The Blue Horse" by Bruce Borgos

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Death by Accident: Bill Crider

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Death by Accident: Bill Crider: The Sheriff Dan Rhodes series by Bill Crider is set in a small town in Blacklin County, a fictional county in Texas. It is a cozy series; Sh...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Three Witnesses by Rex Stout

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Three Witnesses by Rex Stout:   In January I read "Die Like a Dog," a novella featuring Nero Wolfe. It was published in Three Witnesses in 1956. This month I ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Mayors of New York: S.J. Rozan

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Mayors of New York: S.J. Rozan: I am a big fan of S. J. Rozan's Lydia Chin and Bill Smith series. I started reading the books in the series in 2008 and by the middle of...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Birdcage: Victor Canning

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Birdcage: Victor Canning: Birdcage is about the machinations of a British intelligence agency, referred to as "Birdcage" because its offices are in Birdcag...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Gabrielle Zevin

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Gabrielle Zevin:   As the story opens, A.J. Fikry is a widower. His wife died 21 months earlier and left him to run their book store on Alice Island, Massach...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Rip Through Time: Kelley Armstrong

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Rip Through Time: Kelley Armstrong:   This is the first book in a time travel trilogy by Kelley Armstrong. The main character in this book is a female police detective, Mallory...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: What Was Lost: Catherine O'Flynn

Bitter Tea and Mystery: What Was Lost: Catherine O'Flynn:   A young girl, Kate, ten years old, lives with her grandmother; her goal is to be a detective, and run her own detective agency. She has fe...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The #1937Club: They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The #1937Club: They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer: I read They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer for the 1937 Club hosted by Simon at Stuck in a Book and Karen at Kaggsy's Bookish Ramb...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Silver Swan: Benjamin Black

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Silver Swan: Benjamin Black: In early March, I read The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (pseudonym of John Banville). Set in Ireland in the 1950s, it is the 2nd book abou...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Greenwood: Michael Christie

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Greenwood: Michael Christie: My latest read was Greenwood by Michael Christie, a Canadian author. It is a multigenerational family story with a focus on nature and ecol...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Mindful of Murder: Susan Juby

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Mindful of Murder: Susan Juby:  From the flyleaf of the book: Meet Helen Thorpe. She’s smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butler. On the ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Mask of Memory: Victor Canning

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Mask of Memory: Victor Canning: I read The Mask of Memory by Victor Canning in March of this year. Published in 1974, it is the 3rd book in a loose series called the Birdc...