Category: Fiction Reviews

A year after the conclusion of World War II, Livy Nash is really bored and has become an alcoholic after the excitement of serving as an agent of the SOE in France in Spitfire by …

In Marriage Vow Murder by Leslie Langtry, it’s the night before Merry Wrath’s wedding, and when she her best friend, Kelly, show up to decorate the church, they find a man sitting in the front …

In Play Dead by David Rosenfelt, top-quality lawyer Andy Carpenter hates to work. He’d rather be spending all his time with his golden retriever, Tara, after whom he named his dog rescue organization, the Tara …

It is October, and the girl scouts are excitedly preparing for the Halloween parade in the hopes of winning it for the third year in a row in Mean Girl Murder by Leslie Langtry. Merry …

Jake and his mom have lived alone in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico as long as he can remember. Far away from the ocean, somehow the water still calls to him. His mother regularly reminds …

Neil Richards and Matthew Costello, authors of the delightful Cherringham short story collections, have now released a series of historical mystery novellas Mydworth Mysteries, starting with A Shot in the Dark. It is 1929, and …

It is summer, but Merry and Kelly’s girl scouts are not taking time off for summer vacation in Map Skills Murder by Leslie Langtry. On a sugar high, the girls dig in Merry Wrath’s front …

Molly Murphy needs a job as she settled into 1901 New York City, so she determines to make herself an apprentice to Paddy Riley, a private detective she has observed, in Death of Riley by …

In Marshmallow Malice by Amanda Flower, Juliet and the Reverend Brook’s wedding day has finally come. In her maid of honor dress, Bailey King, the granddaughter and chocolatier of the owner of the Amish Swissman …

As Read Herring Hunt by V.M. Burns opens, Samantha Washington has finally settled into her life as owner of Market Street Mysteries Bookstore, with Dawson Alexander, the star quarterback of Michigan Southwest University, or MISU, …