For anyone who has read the first two Templar Knight Mysteries (The Alehouse Murders and Death of a Squire) or my blog about them, the […]
Calling all Laura Childs fans–
My sister, Bridget, turned me on to Laura Childs’ Tea Shop mysteries a couple of years ago. I’ve read several and I like them. She also reads the Scrapbook […]
Jane Whitefield is back: “Runner”
After a hiatus of nine years, Thomas Perry has written the sixth Jane Whitefield novel. I don’t know when I have been more excited to […]
Another Strong Woman in the Mysteries of Marianne Wesson
Render Up the Body, A Suggestion of Death, and Chilling Effect I don’t know how I missed these mysteries as they were published (1998, 2000, […]
More strong women: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” from Stieg Larsson and the Mallory mysteries from Carol O’Connell
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one of the best mysteries I read in 2008 (and I read a heap of mysteries). […]
Strong Women: great, gritty Scottish detectives from Denise Mina and Val McDermid
I read all kinds of mysteries, but I find I’m particularly drawn to those with smart, tough, independent women characters. Denise Mina has written two […]
Dolls and Robbery — What Could They Have in Common?
The Heights Library System has a local authors’ collection that is continually growing. Sometimes we stumble upon authors and find that they lived in or were associated […]
Vacationing with China Bayles
I’m back from vacation and, yes, I had a good time (I was in Florida, enjoying the sunshine, but that’s another blog). As I was […]
Nectar of the Gods
Galileo said that it is “sunlight, held together by water”, while Robert Louis Stevenson stated it was “bottled poetry” and Thomas Jefferson declared that it is “a necessity […]