Happy Friday, all! Is it embarrassing to admit that I don’t remember what I read this week?  Mostly, I’ve been in a happy research haze, devouring anything I can find about the Manhattan Well Murder of 1799– the topic of the book I’m working on now.   The case was New York’s first big sensational murder…

Happy Friday, all! Do you ever have those weeks where you just can’t settle to a book?  I started the week with an Agatha Christie anthology, Midwinter Murder, which suited my lack of attention span perfectly since the stories were short enough to read one by one in little snippets, and included a few Poirots…

Happy Friday from the frozen Hudson Valley where I’ve been working on Cuba book revisions and supervising Zoom school! Between revisions and remote school, I’ve been going in heavily for comfort reads this week.  I kicked off the New Year with a theme read of Patricia Wentworth’s The Clock Strikes Twelve, in which Miss Silver…

Happy Friday, all! It’s hard to believe we’re only a week from Christmas when it’s sixty degrees in New York.  Between that and my preschooler being back in quarantine, there’s a bit of a Never Never Land, which-day-is-it-again? feel right now, and this week’s reading is equally without theme. I started off with Margaret Rogerson’s…

Happy Friday, all! We’ve been House of Plague over here (not Covid plague, mercifully; just good old fashioned preschool is a germ pit plague), so it seemed time for a good seasonal escapist fantasy– and no one does those better than Trisha Ashley.  In between mopping fevered brows (and mopping other less pleasant things), I’ve…

Happy Friday– and happy December! I ended the old month– and my Victoria Holt kick– by bouncing hard off the second half of The India Fan, which takes place during the rising of 1857.  I was with her for the English village drama in the first half of the book, but the second half did…

Happy Friday, all!  It’s been a blur of a week racing to finish up Smith Book II– but, I have to confess, I didn’t manage to hold out against the lure of Simone St. James’s Book of Cold Cases.   I’d meant to save The Book of Cold Cases as a reward for finishing the new…

Happy Friday, all! It’s a wonderfully stormy day here in New York right now (I do so enjoy a good rainy fall day), and all I want to do is read Simone St. James’s The Book of Cold Cases, which magically zapped itself onto my Kindle last night– but I’ve got just two chapters (and…

Happy Friday– and happy almost Halloween! I’d meant to catch up on my usual pre-Halloween reading this week (Shirley Jackson, E.F. Benson, and Simone St. James, I’m looking at you), but instead I got drawn into the irresistible world of the Thursday Murder Club with book two, The Man Who Died Twice.  I adore these…