Susan Elia MacNeal just keeps getting better! Her newest novel, His Majesty’s Hope, is the strongest entry in the Maggie Hope series so far. It kept me reading far into the night. In His Majesty’s Hope, Maggie is sent undercover behind enemy lines into Germany itself. Her assignment: to bug… Read more »
Tag: mystery

Whose Body? (a Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery), by Dorothy Sayers (review)
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers Series: Lord Peter Wimsey #1 Published by Open Road Media on First publication: 1923. This edition: April 9, 2013 Genres: Mystery, British mystery Pages: 208 Format: Kindle or ebook Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads In the debut mystery in Dorothy L…. Read more »

Top Ten Tuesday: The Books I Recommend the Most
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Recommend the Most. The list of books I recommend most is constantly changing, as I’m sure most people’s do, though there are some classics that stay on… Read more »

Library Lover’s Mystery series, by Jenn McKinlay
I was first introduced to the Library Lover’s Mystery series when I read a review of the third book by Dollycas at Escape with Dollycas Into a Good Book. Being a fan of both cozy mysteries and libraries, I hurried off to my library, borrowed the books, and devoured all… Read more »

Valley of The Shadow, by Carola Dunn (review)
Valley of the Shadow by Carola Dunn Series: Cornish Mysteries #3 Published by Minotaur Books on December 11, 2012 Genres: British mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Anthem for Doomed Youth, Gone West, Heirs of the Body,… Read more »

Dying on the Vine, by Aaron Elkins (review)
Dying on the Vine by Aaron Elkins Series: Gideon Oliver #17 Published by Berkley Publishing Group on Dec. 4, 2012 Genres: Mystery Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Switcheroo Also by this author: A Dangerous Talent, Switcheroo It was the unwavering custom… Read more »

The Twelve Clues of Christmas, by Rhys Bowen (review)
The Twelve Clues of Christmas Series: Her Royal Spyness #6 on Nov. 6, 2012 Pages: 311 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Heirs and Graces On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—well, actually, my true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending a feliz navidad tramping… Read more »

Gone West by Carola Dunn
Gone West by Carola Dunn Series: Daisy Dalrymple #20 Published by Minotaur Books on January 17, 2012 Genres: British mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Anthem for Doomed Youth, Heirs of the Body, The Corpse at the… January 20, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★½

Wicked Autumn, by G. M. Malliet (review)
Wicked Autumn Published by Minotaur Books on September 13th, 2011 Genres: British mystery, Cozy Mystery Pages: 297 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Kobo Add to Goodreads The first in a delightful series, Wicked Autumn sharply skewers the quintessential English village in… Read more »

Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, by Susan Elia MacNeal
As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects… Read more »







































