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: 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: 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 ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spell the Month in Books — March 2026

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spell the Month in Books — March 2026: Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks . Each month one or two themes are suggested for the b...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Sidney Chambers and the Per...:   The Grantchester Mysteries is a series of short story collections by James Runcie. The short stories are all connected and follow the crim...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Muriel Spark

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Muriel Spark:   Description at Goodreads : 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and un...

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: Murder of a Lady: Anthony Wynne

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Murder of a Lady: Anthony Wynne:   Description from the back of the book: Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: More Short Stories by the Lockridges

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: More Short Stories by the L...:   I read the first few stories in Flair for Murder by Francis & Richard Lockridge in January 2025. Now, over a year later, I have finis...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spin #43 for the Classics Club, February 2026

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spin #43 for the Classics Club, February 2026:   The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty unread books from my classics list and list them in a post ...

Patricia Abbott: FFB: CITY OF DRAGONS, Kelli Stanley

 Patricia Abbott: FFB: CITY OF DRAGONS, Kelli Stanley