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REVIEW of Moriarty Lifts the Veil (The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mysteries #4) by Anna Castle
Professor Moriarty has a keen, logical mind for solving mysteries, but does Angelina have the charm and chutzpah to uncover secrets beyond his range of expertise? When two separate cases come to our detective duo, they set up a cordial wager as to which spouse will sleuth out their solution first. The Professor embarks on…
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REVIEW of The Grove of the Caesars (Flavia Albia #8) by Lindsey Davis
When Flavia Albia’s aedile husband Tiberius goes out of town to attend on his dying sister, Albia is left with the mess of sorting out his construction company’s building projects and finding a serial killer in the gardens that Julius Caesar donated to the people over a century ago. Apparently some wretched pervert has been…
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REVIEW of Mr. Darcy and the Murder at Rosings by Lin Mei Wei
After Lizzy rejects Mr. Darcy’s haughty proposal, she looks forward to his immediate departure from Rosings so that the awkwardness can abate. A violent storm, however, traps all the inmates of Rosings (along with Lizzy and the Collins) at the house. When a footman is discovered murdered in the gun room, Mr. Darcy takes charge…
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REVIEW of One Fatal Flaw (Daniel Pitt #3) by Anne Perry
When a distraught young woman begs Daniel Pitt to defend her boyfriend from charges of arson and murder, Daniel is duped into taking a case where his client might in fact be guilty. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, a female scientist in the male-dominated world of 1910 England, for help. Fire is not her…
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REVIEW of Death in Focus (Elena Standish #1) by Anne Perry
In the days of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a young photographer named Elena Standish travels to Italy to photograph a convention. After meeting a personable young man named Ian, they travel together towards France, only to be thrown into a frightening world of espionage, assassination, and events that seem to hurtle headlong toward the…
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REVIEW of Deadly Kin (Alec Halsey Mystery #4) by Lucinda Brant
Alec Halsey has returned to Kent as lord of the estate, but both the steward and his uncle Plantagenet Halsey seem determined to keep him ignorant about neighborhood inheritance customs, the ongoing poaching on the estate, and a secret underground chamber beneath the sprawling old manor. As Selina approaches her due date with their first…
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REVIEW of The Bridge to Belle Island by Julie Klassen
After Benjamin Booker loses a London court case due to the wiles of a beautiful woman, he’s determined not to make the mistake of trusting easily once again. His episodes of vertigo generally keep him from traveling, but when the retired partner of his law firm is murdered, he cannot refuse the journey to investigate…
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REVIEW of Prima Facie (Medicus Investigation #8.5) by Ruth Downie
When Ruso and his wife Tilla head home to the old farm in southern Gaul, they aren’t expecting to arrive in the middle of a family crisis. Little sister Flora’s boyfriend, a freeman and wheelwright, has been accused of murdering his aristocratic half-brother, and Flora is beside herself to rescue him from execution. Can Ruso…
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REVIEW of Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau
When Peggy Batternberg’s family bids her drop her plebeian job at a bookshop and join them for a summer holiday at the Oriental Hotel, she fumes at the idea. But wealthy Jewish financiers are not used to being denied, and out of consideration for her younger sister’s feelings, Peggy bows to the decree. The aristocratic…
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REVIEW of The Murder in Mirth (Lord Trevelin Mysteries #3) by Heidi Ashworth
With a reputation as murky as pond water, Lord Trevelin (aka “Trev”) is used to being ignored, insulted, and given the cut direct. It seems like all of London society has swallowed the nefarious rumors spread about by his evil cousin Evelyn. When an invitation arrives for a country house party, Trev accepts it with…
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