Happy September, everyone!  I’ve got my pumpkin spice creamer, my fuzzy blanket, my puzzle with autumn foliage ready to go– and some fall reads lined up, thanks to all the wonderful recommendations by folks over on my Facebook author page. I ended August with Hid From Our Eyes, Julia Spencer-Fleming’s long awaited seventh book in…

Happy Friday, all!  It’s been a stay-up-too-late reading week for me with two wonderful upcoming books that I gobbled up to the extreme detriment of my sleep schedule and ability to function.  So, when these books come out, don’t say you weren’t warned…. First up was Marie Benedict’s The Mystery of Mrs. Christie.  It’s no…

Happy Friday, all!  It won’t surprise anyone to hear that I’ve been reading my way through more of Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver series (seriously, so soothing). But I also have a wonderful treat lined up on my Kindle, two upcoming books I’ve been dying to read: Stephanie Dray’s The Women of Chateau Lafayette, which goes…

I’ve been very dull this week and reverted to reading mid-century mysteries again: Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Door, which ranks low on my list of Rineharts for a variety of reasons, and Patricia Wentworth’s Dark Threat (I prefer the older title, Pilgrim’s Rest), which is number 9 or 10 in the Miss Silver mystery series,…

It’s been an absolutely banner reading week for me with not one but two new books in very different genres. Hearing my bat signals of copy edit distress (copy edits always cause distress), my amazing college roommate e-sent me Alexis Hall’s Boyfriend Material, in which the estranged son of two 80’s rock legends has to…

The Miss Silver Mysteries Marathon continues (this time with tersely named) The Key, but I’m so very grateful to the wonderful Kate Moretti for breaking up with Miss Silvers with an advance copy of her compulsively readable upcoming ghost story/mystery/thriller, The Girls of Brackenhill. I finished it in a day– much to the detriment of…

Happy July 4th weekend everyone!  This may not be the 4th we were all hoping for, but one thing stays the same: there will always be books. This week, I continued my Jodi Taylor and Patricia Wentworth marathons with the St. Mary’s adventure A Second Chance (book #3) and the Miss Silver mystery The Clock…

I won’t lie, I’ve still been having my Patricia Wentworth Genteel-British-Murders-of-the-Midcentury-athon (wouldn’t that make a wonderful German compound noun?), but I’ve finally branched out to some other books that have been on my TBR forever and kicking myself for having waited so long. Thank you to everyone here who has (repeatedly) recommended Jodi Taylor’s St.…

Don’t you hate it when a new book comes out in a series you love and you don’t realize it?  And then you do and it’s both wonderful and also annoying.  Annoying because you could have read it a month ago.  But wonderful because you have it now.  And then you go and double-check all…