The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
I saved this book—number eight in Louise Penny’s “Inspector Gamache” mystery series—to read while on vacation in Québec. Although I …
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Guest Review: Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen
GUEST REVIEW: In addition to adventuring around the nation’s capital, fellow blogger Discover DC Living is an avid reader, from …
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is set in post-war England. Having fought in the war and mysteriously …
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 …
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 …
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 …
42 & 43: The Crossing Places and The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
Nearing the end of The Crossing Places, I felt bereft—I wanted to remain in Elly Griffiths’ setting, the marshes of …
Friends in High Places–and other books set in Venice
This one doesn’t count toward 55 @ 55. Just want to note—to myself!—that I’ve already read Donna Leon’s Friends in …
