BY Hope Callaghan (Author) SKAGWAY SLEUTHS is the second of Hope Callaghan‘s Cruise Ship Director, Millie’s adventures in Alaska. I really enjoy them, having recently cruised the inside passage in Alaska myself. These mysteries depict shipboard life very true to form. It was like being there again as I read this book. Without the mystery, of course!!…
by Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An audiobook review. I believe I’ve read all of Benedict Brown’s Lord Edgington and Christopher books, set in the 1920s in Jolly Olde England. I love the unusual pair, the eccentric posh and fumbling schoolboy combination of murder solving. It’s perfect for any kind of mystery. The older,…
by Jackie One day, in the Costco Pharmacy Department, I saw this little stuffed bear peeking out of a cellophane window in a printed cardboard box. It looked lonesome but patient. From reading the back of the box, I learned that the bear’s soft-looking, round body was stuffed with tiny beads that could be…
NOTE: Last year, I blogged on my daily chronological reading through the Bible (all 366 days) in my “Morning Meditations” blog. Here is the link to 2024’s daily blogs, beginning January 1, 2024, in Genesis 1-3. I plan to do this again in 2025, but I will blog differently, not in daily overviews, but on…
by Victoria Tait (Author) Wow, an even dozen for antiques-enthusiast cum amateur sleuth Dotty Sayers in Victoria Tait‘s British cozy mystery series. I’ve been with Dotty through the ups and downs of all her books and watched her develop from a shy (and yes, mildly abused) young widow in the first book to an assured, well-educated…
by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) James Ponti delivers another great City Spies mystery, set in Cairo this time. The team gets a 6th member, but is he good… or evil? Only time (and the next book) will tell. (The reader is pulled either way as the story progresses.) Meanwhile, the youngest team member,…
by James Ponti (Author), Brian Holden (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) James Ponti is hands down one of the most terrific kids’ books writers out there. Framed! and Vanished! are the first two in this series, and then this one. I’m glad he tied up all the loose ends of the first two stories in this stupendous finale. Very satisfying! …
by Victoria Tait (Author) The Cotswolds, a picturesque cafe decorated for Christmas and wafting holiday aromas, friends and lovers, and a female police officer with a twisty tragic murder to solve…or maybe two. What more could you ask from a Cozy Festive Mystery? There is a lot of change brewing in book six. Police Sergeant Keya has…
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