Tag: mysteries
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Book review: The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the first in a new series by a well-known mystery author, Janet Evanovich, who writes the Stephanie Plum series. Gabriela Rose is a “recovery agent,” someone who is retained to find lost/stolen/missing items. And this time she is off to find…
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Book review: The Murder of Mr Wickham by Claudia Gray
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray My rating: 3 of 5 stars The premise of the book is clever–the author has taken many of the characters from Jane Austen novels, thrown them together, and murdered one of them (no spoilers, but based on the title, it’s clear which character it is). Then, two…
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Book review: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a difficult-to-place genre of a book, which I really enjoyed). A group of middle-aged female assassins are retiring, but someone is trying to kill them, and they have to “unretire” long enough to fend off attempts to kill them…
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Book review: Sweet Revenge by Andrea Penrose (A Lady Arianna mystery)
Sweet Revenge by Andrea Penrose My rating: 4 of 5 stars The debut novel of the Lady Arianna Regency Mysteries (I think my theory is that if I keep discovering new good series, I will never run out of books to read. I think I will never run out of books to read anyway, but…
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Book review: The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu My rating: 4 of 5 stars A new author! And a new mystery series! (For me, anyway.) The setting for this series is in 1930s Singapore, when Singapore was a British colony. It’s a period and place in history that I know very little about, and I love…
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Book review: Jane and the Man of the Cloth by Stephanie Barron
Jane and the Man of the Cloth by Stephanie Barron My rating: 3 of 5 stars I had read the first of this series a long time ago because it’s Jane Austen and a mystery, what is there not to like? But as I recall, the debut novel didn’t grab me, and as my TBR…
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Book review: Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews
Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews My rating: 4 of 5 stars First in a mystery series. (Because, of course, why finish any of the many other series I’ve started? I am beginning to think I have commitment issues.)This was a fun and good read, with interesting characters and a well-constructed plot. It helps…
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Book review: Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart
Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first in a series (because, of course, I have finished reading all the other books in all the other series I have started). This book caught my attention because it takes place in Singapore in 1910 during British colonial rule, and…
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Book review: A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book (the first in a series) is based on a clever premise: what if there was a female detective agency and what kind of women would be part of that effort? And off we go, launched into the story. A…
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Book review: Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose
Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first novel in a mystery series with an interesting premise. The hero, Lord Wrexford, is a member of the aristocracy and very scientifically minded. The heroine, A.J. Quill, is a satirical artist, who seems to know facts about…