I must admit, I’m not much for “prequels” to books, movies, or television series. But an exception to this feeling is the admiration I have fo…
Vicki Delaney is as busy as the proverbial bee when it comes to writing. She’s the author of the Lighthouse Library Mysteries (writing as Eva …
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Molly MacRae pens the Highland Bookshop Mystery Series, and her latest work, Thistles and Thieves is just as good as the first.
Ellery Adams new series featuring the Secret, Book, and Scone Society members is set in Miracle Springs, a small town in western North Carolin…
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Readers met Rosalind Thorne a short time ago with the publication of A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde. Set in Regency England, the series featur…
Sara Gruen, herself a New York Times bestselling author, calls The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek “an unputdownable book.” I wholeheartedly agree.
Eva Gates pens the Bodie Island Lighthouse mystery series.
Rita Mae Brown’s series featuring “Sister” Jane Arnold and her foxhunting friends in Virginia has quite a following. I’m proud to be included …
Anne Perry’s works featuring William Monk and the team of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt have already firmly established her as one of the bestsell…
Readers first met Lady Dunbridge, the young widow of a British lord, in Ask Me No Questions, debut novel by Shelley Noble, when she arrived in…
Readers first met Lady Dunbridge, the young widow of a British lord, in Ask Me No Questions, debut novel by Shelley Noble, when she arrived in…
M.C. Beaton has done it again.
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