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 …
Category Archives: Series
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 …
30 of 55: In a Strange City by Laura Lippman
Well, summer reading is here. These unseasonably hot days (and evenings) are a perfect excuse for more detective stories. In …
28 of 55: Two for Sorrow by Nicola Upson
Two for Sorrow is the third installment in Nicola Upson’s clever mystery series that imagines episodes from the life of …
26 of 55: Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
This is the ninth book in the Maisie Dobbs series, and I’ve read them all. I discovered the series when …
19 of 55: A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer Fleming
What a startling image: a fountain filled with blood. Spencer-Fleming takes the title of her second novel from a William …
11 of 55: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Currently, I’m in the middle of a few books: Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), Five Thousand Days Like This One (Jane …
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