Category: Fiction Reviews

Lindsey Norris is back again for another adventure with this undaunted librarian in Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay. Carrie Rushton has taken over as president of the Friends of the Library board, and Bill …

Hercule Poirot finds retirement rather boring, so in Mrs. McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie, he is pleased to be visited by Superintendent Spence even though he thinks it is a social call. But then the …

In The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders, taking place in 1850, Laetitia Rodd, a 52-year-old widow of an archdeacon, works as a private investigator for her barrister brother, Fred Tyson. In a world where …

In Books Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay, after 10 years as a college librarian, Lindsey Norris has taken over as director of the library at Briar Creek. Her grad school roommate, Beth, works there …

Cherringham — A Cozy Crime Series Compilation (Cherringham 1-3) contains the first three of at least 12 cozy mystery novellas set in a town in England written by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards on a …

Treasure of Darkness by S.W. Hubbard looks into the challenging world of mental illness, in this case compulsive hoarding, as Audrey Nealon, owner of the estate sale agency Another Man’s Treasure, takes on a big …

In Another Man’s Treasure by S.W. Hubbard, Audrey Nealon owns an estate sale business, where she cleans out the houses of those who have died and sells the contents to dealers and then in an …

I like a good conspiracy theory – not because I buy into them, but because I like seeing how others attempt to rationalize an idea that isn’t always widely accepted. It’s interesting, seeing how they …

Hercule Poirot returns with a novella and eight other short stories in Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories. Put together into a compilation for the first time in 1951, the stories themselves actually …

In A Crafty Killing by Lorraine Bartlett, Katie Bonner, widowed from her estranged husband a few months earlier, gets left half the estate of her husband’s business partner, Ezra Hilton, found dead, possibly pushed, at …