Book Review: A Pleasure and a Calling
/A small-town's mild-mannered real estate agent isn't done with your house after he's sold it to you - in Phil Hogan's new novel, he keeps a spare key, and he snoops around while you're away
Read MoreBook Review: Summertime, All the Cats are Bored
/A bored cop in a beautiful French Mediterranean town is suddenly confronted with a genuine murder mystery in the middle of a typical tourist summer
Read MoreBook Review: The Midwife's Tale
/A formidable York midwife must use all her skill and human insight to save the life of a friend accused of murder
Read MoreBook Review: Princess Elizabeth's Spy
/The redoubtable WWII code-breaking sleuth Maggie Hope returns, this time to safeguard the young girl who will one day come to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II
Read MoreBook Review: The Christmas Carol Murders
/A Dickens-obsessed little Oregon town plays unwilling host to - what else? - a Dickens-themed murder in this captivating mystery debut
Read MoreBook Review: Elegy for Eddie
/In the latest Maisie Dobbs novel, the clouds of war are gathering
Read MoreBook Review: Restless in the Grave
/The latest Kate Shugak murder mystery features small town Alaska, bush pilot sabotage, and one heck of a sexy state trooper!
Read MoreBook Review: The Comedy is Finished
/A series of fortunate events unearths a long-lost manuscript by the late great Donald Westlake! Too good to be true, or too true to be good?
Read MoreBook Review: The Deception at Lyme
/In Carrie Bebris' latest Jane Austen homage, the detective duo of Mr. & Mrs. Darcy take a vacation at Lyme, a location the proves scenic, fascinating - and deadly!
Read MoreAnthology Review: Cape Cod Noir
/A noir mystery anthology takes us down the mean streets of ... West Brewster?
Read MoreBook Review: The Good Thief's Guide to Venice
/In his latest adventure, (mostly) reformed thief Charlie Howard finds trouble in the much-storied Queen of the Adriatic.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Thirteen Hours
/The murder of an American tourist in Cape Town propels this well-made thriller, the latest paperback from an internationally popular writer.
Read MoreMurders Most Foul
/What constitutes particularly Southern fiction? In reckoning Ron Rash’s Serena, Karen Vanuska goes below the Mason-Dixon line in search of something that sets Southern fiction apart – aside from all the dead bodies stacked like cordwood.
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