Happy Friday, all! After a whirlwind couple of weeks on the road for The Author’s Guide to Murder I’m finally back at my computer– and I promise to share a tour round-up here soon!  It’s been a marvelous blur of bagpipers, plaid, prosecco, and haggis hors d’oeuvres.  Thank you so much to everyone who joined…

Happy Friday, all! How is it only a week until the Team W Readers’ Weekend in Newport and the kick off of The Author’s Guide to Murder tour??  (If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, you can still join us in Newport next week!  It looks like the weather is going to be gorgeous.) It’s…

Happy Friday, all! This week has been a new book bonanza for me, starting with the second in Charlotte Vassell’s brilliant DI Beauchamp series, The In Crowd, in which DI Beauchamp finds two seemingly unrelated cases (a dead body in the river and the very cold case of a girl’s disappearance from her boarding school…

Happy Friday, all! Is it horrible that I can’t remember what I’ve been reading this week?  I’m pretty sure there were some vintage mysteries in there, but the one that has stayed in my consciousness is T. Kingfisher’s latest, A Sorceress Comes to Call, which is what happens when you cross classic T. Kingfisher (think…

Happy Friday, all! This week, I treated myself to Richard Osman’s latest, We Solve Murders, the start of a wonderfully tongue in cheek series starring a bodyguard and her retired police officer father-in-law as they trot around the globe evading assassins, along with their unlikely ally, a larger than life 1980s novelist.  (I’m so amused…

Happy Friday, all! With September in full swing, it’s been a gothic-ish mystery sort of week for me, starting with Carol Goodman’s latest, Return to Wyldcliffe Heights, in which a young editorial assistant (with a somewhat cloudy past) at a small publishing house snags a dream job as assistant to a famous and famously reclusive…

Happy Friday, all! This has been a marvelous re-read week for me, hopscotching across eras and genres, starting off with Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affair, in which a country lawyer’s quiet life is upended when he finds himself defending a pair of women accused of a bizarre crime.  I’ll never forget the experience of reading…

Happy September, all! It’s been so long since I’ve posted one of these that I’m not going to even try to recap what I read over the summer.  So let’s start fresh and plunge right in with this week! On the recommendation of the brilliant Robin Agnew, I picked up The Clutter Corpse, the first…

Happy Friday, all! Apologies for my continued absence here.  Between some family stuff and deadlines, it’s been a challenging couple of months and many balls have been dropped along the way.  I suspect it will be a few more months before we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming over here, but I hope to be…

Happy Friday, all! Can you believe it’s almost June already?  At my back I always hear my deadline rapidly drawing near, but in between panicking about how close my deadline is and how little of my book is written, I did read some excellent books this week. First there was Alex Hay’s The Housekeepers, recommended…