Category: Fiction Reviews

Warning: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells are addictive. Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth in the series, is as irresistible as the rest., though it departs in one crucial way: Fugitive Telemetry is more purely focused …

Murder at St. George’s Church by Lee Strauss is the 7th book in the Ginger Gold series, set in the 1920s. I’ve come rather late to this series, which has 17 books but am enjoying …

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is a powerful historical fiction with a mystery element. It is 1939, and three young women of totally different backgrounds and varying skillsets have been recruited to work at …

Mystery by the Sea by Verity Bright is a fun addition to the Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series, set in 1921. Eleanor decides to take a seaside vacation at the Grand Hotel in Brighton. When …

Lineage Most Lethal by S.C. Perkins I greatly enjoyed Perkins’s first book, Murder Once Removed so was happy to see a sequel out. Genealogist Lucy discovers that her grandfather worked in intelligence during World War …

Big Little Spies by Krista Davis continues the Paws and Claws series set in Wagtail, a resort town dedicated to all things animals. When a pet detective comes to town to try to find a …

A murder book club member gets murdered herself.

This is either the worst possible time to read Mira Grant’s Newsflesh series, or the best possible time to pick. I went back and forth while I was reading. Is it wise to read about …

Theodora Bentley is participating in a project to count local live, dead, and sick sea otters when she comes upon an unusual sight in The Otter of Death by Betty Webb. Teddy’s personal otter friend, …

Lady Georgiana is home from her honeymoon with Darcy O’Mara after three months of marriage in The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen. Upon Darcy’s getting called away from home on one of his secret …