Happy Friday, all!  This week was a comfort read/ edgy read sandwich for me. I reverted back to Patricia Wentworth with one of her stand alone novels, Silence in Court.  I was a bit skeptical– the premise is that a Miss Carey Silence is on trial for the murder of an elderly friend of the…

Happy Friday, all! It’s a grey and misty Friday over here, which was perfect for the non-fiction book I just finished: Kate Summerscale’s The Haunting of Alma Fielding, an account of the investigation into a case of supposed poltergeist activity in 1930s England. But what makes this book so fascinating isn’t just the step by…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a week of dark thrillers and monastic murder for me.  Riley Sager’s The Last Time I Lied was a read-in-one-night book for me, sitting in the dark between putting my daughter to bed and finally putting the light out myself.  I so enjoy Sager’s takes on classic themes– in this…

Happy Friday, all!  I haven’t quite wrapped my head around the fact that it’s Memorial Day weekend– and neither, apparently, has the weather, which has decided it should kick off the summer season by plunging back into the fifties for a bit. I started the week with Alexis Hall’s new rom com, Rosaline Palmer Takes…

Happy Friday, all! I need to get back to the Team W chapter I’m working on, but wanted to pop in for just a moment to talk about this week’s books! I started the week with Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s Dance Away With Me, in which a grieving widow moves to a remote rural cabin– but finds…

Happy Friday, all!  There’s been so much going on this week– the Team W book, my next book, the Pinkorama, an art exhibit in which I got to take part– that I’m having trouble remembering what I’ve read.  Do you ever have those weeks where Monday feels an awfully long way away from Friday?  Or…

Happy Friday, all!  It’s been zigzagging between April showers and August weather in New York, but I’ve been happily frolicking in medieval Wales with Brother Cadfael in the first Cadfael book, A Morbid Taste for Bones. The last time I picked up an Ellis Peters book was a good twenty years ago (it may even…

Happy Friday, all!  It’s been the strangest week in New York, zigzagging between summer and winter (with the occasional nod to spring).  Just when you put the winter coat away…. In the meantime, I finally read Tana French’s latest, The Searcher, a stand alone about a Chicago cop who moves to rural Ireland and finds…

Happy Friday, all! I’ve been jumping down all sorts of research rabbit holes this week, from Sophia Schliemann’s role in excavating Tory to exactly where various trains of Rough Riders were on the evening of June 2, 1898 (the answer is on the one rail line leading to Tampa– but where exactly on that line? …