The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart
Glancing through The Pigeon Pie Mystery’s introductory cast of characters, I braced for that unique brand of peculiarity found only …
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Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear
Leaving Everything Most Loved is the tenth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series set in 1930s England. Maisie has …
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
A Trick of the Light opens with a vernissage, the preview of an art exhibition before its formal opening. Patient, …
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Je me souviens. Perhaps you’ve seen it on a Quebec license plate: I remember. I’d always thought of it as …
The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart
I’ve been waiting for this book since reading Erin Hart‘s last book, False Mermaid, published in 2010. I can understand …
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
A Fatal Grace is the second “Three Pines” mystery by Louise Penny—I somehow missed it as I progressed through the …
Fours books + blizzard = coincidental reading
Thanks to Blizzard Nemo, I’ve had the opportunity to curl up with four books, bouncing back and forth as the …
2013: Still Life, and others by Louise Penny
My first books of the new year are detective novels in a series by Canadian writer Louise Penny. Some fictional …
52: Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King
Long live the detective novel, done well. I’ve spent the weekend in 1924 Morocco, an occasionally harrowing but continually captivating …
40 of 55: The Stonecutter by Camilla Läckberg
The Stonecutter is a crime novel by Swedish author Camilla Läckberg, who’s also written The Ice Princess and The Preacher, …
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