I never get tired of the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series. In The Poison Pen, the ninth book in Paige Shelton’s series, bookseller Delaney Nichols is sent to a small village to check out an artifact for her boss, Edwin. But when she […]
Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler asks the question: Is it possible to set out to create a truly integrated town and succeed? Meckler was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, so her interest is natural, […]
Read to Death at the Lakeside Library by Holly Danvers is the third book in the Lakeside Library series and the first I’ve read. It was easy to get swept up in the story without reading the first two. Read to Death […]
In Death at a Scottish Wedding, author Lucy Connelly returns us to Sea Isle, Scotland, where American transplant Dr. Emilia McRoy has settled in as town doctor (which she expected) and coroner (surprise!). This second volume in the Scottish Isle mystery centers […]
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill,” edited by Jericho Brown “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill,” edited by Jericho Brown, is a book that deserves a place on the shelf of any […]
A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is a behind-the-scenes look into the life of the woman with whom many of us feel a parasocial relationship. Beyond her velvet voice, steely determination and dogged persistence, […]
This One Didn’t Grab Me Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke My rating: 3 of 5 stars Vinyl Resting Place is the first volume in the Record Shop Mysteries series by Olivia Blacke. I’m sorry I didn’t love this one for several […]
Charm City Rocks: A Love Story by Matthew Norman Fells Point and Baltimore are characters in Charm City Rocks, much as Fenwick Island is in All Together Now. (I just sent a copy to a friend who took me to her uncle’s […]
A Visceral Tale of Grief. Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli TW: Suicide In Someday, Maybe, grief is a thing. A monster that sits on your chest and won’t let you breathe. Eve’s husband, Quentin (Q), takes his own life. She didn’t see […]
An exceptional cozy mystery set in post-WWII Paris Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge I read a lot of cozy mysteries, but Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge stood out as exceptional. This cozy mystery is […]