Happy Friday, all!  And happy November! The stand out read for me this week was Linda Wilgus’s The Myth Keeper, coming out in April.  Set in 1830s Cornwall, this was entirely unlike anything I’ve read recently– unless you count rereading Victoria Holt and Anya Seton.  This had major vintage Victoria Holt vibes in the best…

Happy Friday, all!  And happy Halloween! This week, I’ve been on a Simone St. James binge, starting with her second contemporary, The Sun Down Motel, which goes back and forth between the 1980s and the present day in the very haunted town of Fell, NY, before going back to her post World War I set…

Happy Friday, all! This week started off with Alix Harrow’s Starling House, in which an orphan struggling to make ends meet for her younger brother discovers an unexpected legacy in the creepy house on the outskirts of their town where she takes a job as housekeeper for the reclusive owner.  But this house isn’t just…

Happy Friday, all! I will be honest: I really didn’t think I was going to like the new Miss Marple, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel.  I have bounced hard off previous Golden Age revivals, including Jill Paton Walsh’s Wimseys (and I love Paton Walsh’s Imogen Quy!).  The reboots just always feel… off, somehow.  The…

Happy Friday, all! So many excellent new books this week!  (Courtesy of two very long back to back flights to and from Arizona.)  I started with the new Claire Mackintosh, It’s Not What You Think, which was just as twisty as it sounds.  I loved her DI Ffion Morgan mysteries (for my fellow devotees of…

Happy Friday, all– and happy October! To kick off my Spooky Season reading, I finally read the latest Riley Sager, The Unknown, which is, hands down, my favorite of his books yet.  The premise: a newbie actress is cast for a role in a major film when the previous actress drops out.  The hitch?  The…

Happy Friday, all! Right now, I’m happily immersed in A Fatal Legacy, the fourth book in Charlotte Vassell’s DI Caius Beauchamp series, which just arrived for me from England.  (Note to U.S. publishers: make these available here again, please!  Also the Reverend Richard Coles’s Canon Clement novels.  Just saying.)  In this installment, the eccentric scion…

Happy Friday, all! I started the week with Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop, in which a librarian is driven out of her cozy berth in the library by a rebellion in the capitol, along with her talking spider plant and a pile of rescued spell books.  Returning to her remote home island, she has to…

Happy Friday, all! I was utterly absorbed by Julia London’s Rules for Aging and Larceny, about four best friends who reunite in their seventies for one last heist.  Recommended for fans of The Thursday Murder Club and Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age.  The book was so engrossing that I gulped it up in…

Happy Friday, all! This week I started out with Melissa Albert’s The Children, which cleverly isn’t quite what you think it’s going to be.  The story involves the children of the author of a beloved series of children’s books (the author tragically dead young, the books unfinished) in which they played the starring roles.  So……