The Reading Room: The Case of the Absent Heirs (WISE Enquiries Agency #6) by Cathy Ace: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: The Case of the Absent Heirs (WISE Enquiries Agenc...:   There’s something so exciting about a book set at Christmastime when it’s a book in a favorite mystery series.   You get to see the char...

The Reading Room: A Killing of Innocents (Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid #19) by Deborah Crombie: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: A Killing of Innocents (Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid #19) by Deborah Crombie: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Vintage/Golden Age Mystery Reading: Reading Room Guest Post by Aubrey Hamilton

The Reading Room: Vintage/Golden Age Mystery Reading: Reading Room G...: Vintage Mysteries: Where to Start This article is for those contemporary mystery readers who have heard about the renewed interest in olde...

The Reading Room: Mother Daughter Traitor Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Mother Daughter Traitor Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal:...:   Susan Elia MacNeal is one of my favorite authors, who often introduces me to pieces of history I should be familiar with but am not and h...

The Reading Room: Winter's End (Alaska Wild #4) by Paige Shelton: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Winter's End (Alaska Wild #4) by Paige Shelton: Re...:   The Alaska Wild series by Paige Shelton is not a survivalist series, and, yet it is. This mystery/crime series set in the isolated sma...

The Reading Room: The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian: Reading Room Review:     “Oh, I can’t speak for the dead. And I won’t speak for the missing. I can only tell you what I think happened. Others—the dead and the...

The Reading Room: The Companion by Lesley Thomson: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: The Companion by Lesley Thomson: Reading Room Review:   “By two o’clock in the morning, the storm had passed. The rain had stopped. The air was cleansed. A rational soul would easily attribute t...

The Reading Room: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt: Re...:   It seems that every so often a contemporary fiction book comes along that's not in my preferred mystery/crime genre, a book that touch...

The Reading Room: The Navigator's Daughter by Nancy Cole Silverman: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: The Navigator's Daughter by Nancy Cole Silverman: ...:   The Navigator’s Daughter is the first book in a new series by Nancy Cole Silverman . Of course, Nancy is no novice in the writing of myst...

The Reading Room: Fatal Reunion (Zoe Chambers #11) by Annette Dashofy: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Fatal Reunion (Zoe Chambers #11) by Annette Dashof...: It’s good to be back in Monongahela County, Pennsylvania with a new Zoe Chambers book by Annette Dashofy . Fatal Reunion , #11, is being en...

The Reading Room: A Three Dog Problem (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #2) by S.J. Bennett

The Reading Room: A Three Dog Problem (Her Majesty the Queen Investi...:   I read this book completely for pleasure, and that is such a lovely way to experience a book. Not that I’m adverse to books that impart im...

The Reading Room: Bricks and Bones by J.D. Allen: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Bricks and Bones by J.D. Allen: Reading Room Review:   “When things went sideways like this, there was a momentary silence in your head while you inventoried all your own major body parts. No m...

The Reading Room: Murder in Immunity by Anne Cleeland: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Murder in Immunity by Anne Cleeland: Reading Room ...:   DS Kathleen Doyle is pregnant and about to give birth at any time, but Doyle wants to keep busy, as she not good at sitting still waiting....

The Reading Room: Widowland by C.J. Carey: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Widowland by C.J. Carey: Reading Room Review:   It’s 1953 and Britain has been a protectorate of Germany for thirteen years. Instead of WWII, the government of Great Britain agreed to ...

The Reading Room: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf: Reading ...:   Wow! The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf is one of the most riveting reads I’ve encountered. The suspense just simply does not let ...

The Reading Room: The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths: Reading Room Re...:     The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths came out in February 2022 in the UK.  Publication date for the U.S. is not until June 28, 2022.  I am ...

The Reading Room: Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes: Reading Room R...:   I love mysteries set on a train, and I especially love those train mysteries to be set in the 1930s or 40s. Mix in some golden days of Hol...

The Reading Room: Notes on an Execution: A Novel by Danya Kukafka: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Notes on an Execution: A Novel by Danya Kukafka: R...:   Pain.   Everywhere you turn in this book, you find pain.   It’s inescapable. Of course, with a title like Notes on an Execution , you s...

The Reading Room: Scot Mist (#4 Last Ditch Mystery) by Catriona McPherson: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: Scot Mist (#4 Last Ditch Mystery) by Catriona McPh...: There are books that feed my soul with the joy of reading.   The Last Ditch Mystery series by Catriona McPherson fits this bill completel...

The Reading Room: The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens: Reading Room Review

The Reading Room: The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens: Reading Room Review:   It’s difficult to know where to start in reviewing a book by Allen Eskens , as I immediately want to talk about all the books by Eskens t...