Monthly Archives: March 2023

This little murder mystery, #6 in Rhys Bowen’s Constable Evan Evans series, was way more involved and more fun than I expected.  After all my serious nonfictions lately I deserved some easy reading.  LOL!  (Not really.)  Evan and Elleby  Rhys Bowen 2000 – 7h … Continue reading →

I got this at a pretty good sale, but I was interested in what Richardson, a moderately well-known academic professor of US history who also writes for a general audience, has to say about this idea that the South won … Continue reading →

From Putnam, the publishers: :  “Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.” Come Back In September: A Literary Education On West … Continue reading →

This is a more a genre fiction with some crime involved than it is a typical crime novel.  The main tension driving this novel are the questions  “What did he do?”  And “Will they be found?”   These Silent Woodsby … Continue reading →

I finished this on about the 1st of March and forgot to post my thoughts.   Sad to say I was disappointed in this latest offering from a man I consider to be one of the greatest authors alive today. … Continue reading →

Surprise!  I finished and enjoyed the whole thing except maybe the ending was a bit schmaltzy.  The surprise is that I’ve never been a Louise Penny fan in any way.  I’ve read 10 or more of the individual novels in … Continue reading →

 Ma is an 80-year old woman with plenty of money, but she’s been depressed and going downhill health-wise since Pa died a few years ago. She causes problems for her children  and one day she walks away and gets lost. … Continue reading →

Published ini late June 2022 this  isn’t a thriller but a highly suspenseful novel, but it’s well written and  quite entertaining with plenty of attention given to a twisty plot and a few memorable characters, The thing is that the … Continue reading →

Again.- don’t think the story is told until you turn that last page.  What a ride!   I think I’m going to leave that last book I have unread alone. These got better an better and the best of the … Continue reading →

And true to my word I looked at what other books in this series that I hadn’t read and came up with what Kirkus Reviews calls “A genuine whodunnit.”   A Matter of Life and Deathby Phillip Margolin 2019Read by Therésè Plummer 5h 38mRating … Continue reading →

“An unapologetic valentine to golden age whodunits that sports its clichés as proudly as badges.”https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/phillip-margolin/murder-at-black-oaks/ Oh what a terrific book!  I’ve read several of Margolin’s books but this is hands down the best of what I’ve read.  Now I’m going to have to … Continue reading →

Starting in about 1990 I’ve read about 10 of Nelson DeMille’s thrillers. I read some in paperback and, after 2000 or so via Audible.  Of the main series with John Corey I’ve read 4 or 5.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_DeMille (scroll down to … Continue reading →

Pinky (or Clarissa if you prefer) is a curious sort of youngish woman. She’s a natural detective, so when Rick, her step-brother, offered her a job as an investigator for his law firm she jumps at it.  Pinky is 33 … Continue reading →

As the result of a dare with a journalist, Enzo MacLeod , a forensic specialist, is tackling a series of 7 unsolved crimes. In this, the 4th, we find him on a tiny island off the coast of Brittany where, 20 years prior, an … Continue reading →

I’d been looking at this book anyway and it might have been on my crowded Wish List. (I keep about 200  books on my Wish Lists and I pare and add regularly.) Anyway – there is was one day on sale. Okay … Continue reading →

This “cozy” is set in Three Pines which, after I read this somewhere, is NOT supposed to be a real or realistic place. It’s a fantasy place for a certain group of people/readers.  And with this book, A World of Curiosities, … Continue reading →