The Paris Mystery
by Kirsty Manning I love a mystery set in the 1930s, and what fun to visit Paris instead of London or New York! Charlie James, looking to escape a failed marriage in her hometown of Sydney, has pulled up stakes and moved to France. The chief of The Times’ Paris bureau, having hired her believing…
The Lady from Burma
by Allison Montclair Overall: The fifth book in the Sparks and Bainbridge mystery series, The Lady from Burma finds our heroines – the resourceful Iris Sparks and the sympathetic Gwendolyn Bainbridge – pulled into another pair of mysteries. When a new client comes to The Right Sort Marriage Bureau to consult with the ladies about…
A Botanist’s Guide to Flowers and Fatality
by Kate Khavari Having thoroughly enjoyed A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons, I eagerly picked up A Botanist’s Guide to Flowers and Fatality, the second book of the Saffron Everleigh mystery series. Book two finds Saffron still working to establish a secure place for herself in the botany department at the University College of…
The Murder of Mr. Wickham
by Claudia Gray Overall: Calling all Jane Austen fans! What a fun concept for a book: collect many of the principal characters from Austen’s novels, put them all in a house party at Donwell Abbey, and then kill off the villainous Mr. Wickham. Whether you love Elizabeth and Darcy, Emma and George Knightley, Marianne and…
The Wintringham Mystery
by Anthony Berkeley Overall: Originally published in the 1920s as an English newspaper serial, The Wintringham Mystery contest invited readers to submit their solutions to win cash prizes. This book’s claim to fame is that it stumped everyone, even Agatha Christie. I came across it at my local independent bookstore, which has been featuring all…
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear A Sunlit Weapon is the seventeenth entry in the Maisie Dobbs detective series. If you like historical fiction and traditional detective stories, and you haven’t heard of this series, you are in for a treat! At this point in the series, time has progressed from the late 1920s into World War II.…
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