Duplicate Death by Geogette Heyer
Ah, one of my all-time favorite authors! It’s rare I can come across a new one of hers, since I’ve read so many, but I was fortunate today. For those poor souls who are unfamiliar with this author, her main genre is what is known as Regency Romance. I had never once considered reading anything of the sort, until people I trusted kept nudging her in my direction. Boy were they right. If you would like a taste, try The Grand Sophy – so funny! […]
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon
Last fall the internet discovered that, apparently, men think about the Roman Empire a lot. While the Roman Empire wasn’t my “Roman Empire” (I honestly don’t know that I have one), it did spark a bit of curiosity about the actual Roman Empire, being an area in history that I haven’t given much study. Cue two reviews of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon by friends the same week in January and I had […]
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
The first book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy came to my attention thanks to my fellow Cannonballers. I feel like I went from knowing absolutely nothing about this book or its author to being flooded with information about it and somehow still managing to go into the reading experience with extraordinarily little spoiled for me (something I hope to accomplish with my own review). Malin’s review from March was the linchpin as I don’t traditionally go in for dark romance but if Malin gave it her […]
The Murder Room by PD James
The Dupayne is a unique private (and fictional!) museum located on the Hempstead Heath that is dedicated to the interwar years in Britain. Located in a formerly stately house, most of it is dedicated to archives and is dreadfully scholarly, but there is one room upstairs set aside to highlight the most sensational murders of the period, AKA, the Murder Room. Needless to mention, it is especially a hit on local field trips. Who wants to check out the box that a murder victim got […]
Beauty and the Alchemist by Elle Hartford
Beauty and the Alchemist asks, what does it take to overcome a curse? Particularly if the world you live in is filled with magic. Throw in a bit of murder and you have quite the mystery on your hands. Which is exactly what formerly traveling alchemist Red finds herself surrounded by. She’s been content to settle into life as a shopkeeper in rural Belville, expecting to focus on potions and finding her footing within the community. Red’s plans get changed when Belville’s lone police officer, […]
After reading Swanson’s novel A Kind Worth Killing which was like a cross between Strangers on a Train and Don’t Make Agreements with Psychopaths for Dummies (a book not yet written but should be), I was excited to see that Swanson had another book, which is why I picked up Her Every Fear. A Kind Worth Killing had a hook immediately, Her Every Fear took me a little to get drawn in but after a few chapters, it was the thriller on steroids that I […]
