by by Victoria Tait (Author) Victoria Tait’s new travel cozy mystery series is set first in the Azores, an island group that is a part of Portugal, only about 1,000 miles away in the Atlantic Ocean. Here Tait has sent Georgiana Carey, a secondary character from some of her Dottie Sayers mysteries. She was known as George…
by Agatha Christie (Author), Anna Massey (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) Audiobook Review I’ve never read an Agatha Christie Poirot mystery written in such a way with a female telling the story instead of Hastings or Poirot himself. In MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA, a nurse, Amy Leatheran, is charged with writing up the account of this very perplexing murder from her own…
by Barbara Neely (Author), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review “Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina.” She gets caught writing a bum check (because her bad-news employer didn’t pay her) and goes before a judge. In a fluke bit of black magic (well, kind of),…
by Aaron Elkins (Author), Joel Richards (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An AUDIObook review by Jackie Houchin I love Aaron Elkins’ “Bone Detective” mysteries starring the uber smart, but bumbling, Dr. Gideon Oliver. The forensic details he discovers and talks about are fascinating (but non-gory) and make excellent clues to the mysteries. In Icy Clutches, Gideon is newly married and has…
by Charles Todd (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin A bizarre set of murders unfolds in Yorkshire after a creepily clothed corpse with a book on alchemy at his feet is found in the ruins of an abbey. There is a lot of misdirection at first which the local policeman advances due to…
by Gary Corby and narrated by Erik Davies An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin SACRED GAMES by Gary Corby Is one fantastic read! I was drawn into the story immediately, caught up in the excitement, the intrigue, and the frightfully dangerous sports contests of 460 BC.The story is set at the Olympic Games in Olympia…
by Victoria Tait. a book review by Jackie Houchin Hour is Come is the prequel novella to a delightful new cozy mystery series by Victoria Tait. You can only get a copy of this book by joining her newsletter (link below). But it is well worth it, as it sets up the entire series. Dotty Sayers…
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