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 …
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 …
55 of 55: The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
I began my year of “55 books at age 55” with an A: Alice I Have Been. So it’s fitting …
49: Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
I’ve been struggling to write about some of the books I’ve been reading lately, three of them mysteries: this one …
47 & 48: The House at Sea’s End & A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
Having read the next two entries in the Ruth Galloway series, I’d planned to crow about being caught up. But …
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