Happy Friday, all! I’m just back from a week in the White Mountains with the kids (so much Storyland!) during which it seemed easiest to just continue my epic re-read of Charlotte MacLeod’s Sarah Kelling books– I’m not sure just why I find them so soothing, but I do. This week was what I think…

Happy Friday, all! Confession: I have been on a ridiculous Patricia Wentworth-a-thon.  The one exception has been Chris Bohjalian’s The Lioness, part thriller, part historical fiction, about a 1960s safari for a Hollywood starlet and her husband gone very, very wrong. Otherwise, it’s been all Patricia Wentworth, all the time, at the rate of roughly…

Happy Friday, all! This week was a bonanza of new books as I caught up on some of my stack of new releases, starting with Megan Miranda’s latest, The Last to Vanish, a small town in the Appalachians with a reputation for mysterious disappearances.  Is it coincidence?  Natural causes?  Or is there something sinister going…

Happy Friday, all! Can you believe it’s August already?  I can’t decide if the summer is just beginning or almost over, but either way I’m pretty sure I’m behind on my to do list. My reading recently has been equally all over the place.  I’ve been ping-ponging back and forth between my ultimate comfort read…

Happy Friday, all! I hope everyone is staying as cool as they can in the scorching heat!  Summer for me means a new Riley Sager book, in this case The House Across the Lake, his homage to Rear Window.  In keeping with tradition, I stayed up way too late and read it one night.  I’ll…

Happy Friday, all! I’ve been deep in reviewing my research for the Manhattan Well Murder Book this week, so it’s been mostly trial transcripts and biographies of Hamilton and Burr for me, but I did snatch a break from the late 18th/early 19th century with Camilla Sten’s latest thriller, The Resting Place, in which a young…

Happy Friday, all! I have a pile of new books I ought to be reading (and two books I ought to be writing!) but I’ve retreated back to my happy place, the village life of an England that never was but ought to have been (as George MacDonald Fraser would say) with a combination of…

Happy Friday, all! I madly binged the rest of Jodie Taylor’s Elizabeth Cage series, Dark Light and Long Shadows, about a woman leading a quiet life who suddenly finds herself plunged into danger, government machinations, and odd supernatural happenings. I wasn’t quite ready to leave that world yet, so I moved on to the first…

Happy Friday, all! This week I read a book that’s not out yet, that goes by the unlikely title of Two Wars and A Wedding.  Yep, I was reading through the final proofs of my spring 2023 book (aka the Cuba book, aka the Greece book, aka the 1890s book, aka Smith Book II: the…

Happy Friday, all! I started off the week with Ann Mah’s luminous Jacqueline in Paris.  Jacqueline Kennedy is such a well known character and there are so many layers of assumption and expectation and legend lacquered onto her that I couldn’t imagine how anyone could chip through all that to the young girl underneath– but…