I've mentioned before how much I love Miss Jane Treen and The Secret Detective Agency series. I'm happy to tell you that there is a fourth book out in this wonderful series. The Afternoon Tea Murders takes Jane from London to Deven where Arthur Cilento has
Culinary cozy mysteries are a huge part of the category that is already a sub-category. Some pad their plots with incredibly meh recipes (repurposing Pillsbury cinnamon rolls to make them bigger is not a recipe) while others only include a few key recipes that enhance the story and characters
Murder in a Cornish Teashop by Fliss Chester is the first book in the new Maddie Penrose series. Set in a small rural teashop that is frequented by locals and visiting hikers alike, the story begins soon after a burnt out Maddie leaves her job as a chef in London
Marc Shaiman's memoir Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner is a wonderfully light and breezy autobiography. How so? I inhaled this book in an afternoon. If you have consumed any Broadway musicals in recent decades, you have probably experienced some of Shaiman's
I hate February so much. It's the month after my birthday so I don't have that to look forward to for another year. I was single for over thirty years so Valentines Day was always depressing then and even though Tom and I have been together
Sometimes, it pays to pick out a book that seems outside your usual reading list. For me, that was how I discovered the joy that is The Starseekers: A Historical Fantasy of Magic, Murder, and the Race to the Moon. It may be my favorite book since I started reviewing
This is the first spotlight post of Cozying Up. These posts will feature a newly published book that may be of interest to readers of this blog. In some cases, a review of the featured book may appear later. Love and Death is the sixth book in the Meg Sheppard
Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse (aka the Fake History Hunter) posted just a few days ago about what she calls "The Titanic Complex." She defines it as "when extra drama is added to a historical event because it is (wrongly) assumed that the truth is not exciting enough."
Dorset is both geographically and culturally far from London. For some, a chance to get back into journalism after taking the blame for someone else is worth whatever they have to do (or suffer). In Faith Eckersall's The Body on the Roundabout, Harry Hedges is fresh out of