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Darcy Graves is back today with my review of her debut book The Harlot of St. Cecelia's. If you're a fan of Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series, this could be your next mystery series. You can read my author interview and enter the giveaway HERE. More about The Harlot of St. Cecelia's London, 1923. American expat librarian Eden Brior thinks things are bad when she is accidentally locked overnight in the St. Cecelia’s Library vault with the charming and unreliable Simon

Thanks to Partners in Crime blog tours for the opportunity to interview author Darcy Graves about The Harlot of St. Cecelia's. Check out my review next week. Don't miss the first book in the Inspector Garrett mystery series - complete with buttoned up Englishman, curious American expat and beautiful French actress. Don't miss the giveaway at the end of this post. Jodi: I’m with you on the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Love it! If you could be one detective from the Golden

Thanks to WOW Blog Tours and author Sherri Dodd for a copy of Moonset on Desert Sands. In Book 2 of the Murder, Tea & Crystals trilogy, Arista and her aunt are temporarily uprooted from their California home for Arizona. Judging from the lush descriptions (that I sometimes had to read multiple times, just to relish in the images the language conjured up) Arizona must be a breathtaking place. Lately, I've been loosening up my "read a series in order" rule but I fell I must rei

To my immense pleasure, I've received my copy of Receipts from the Bookshop by Katie Clapham- that was just released in the US/Canada last week. Yes, what started as a quirky Substack started by a bored bookshop owner/author is now an actual book. And it is hilarious! What reader wouldn't want to see the reality behind our universal dream - to have our own bookshop? I ordered my copy through bookshop.org and they are having a special to celebrate the release. Use the promo co

True confessions, when I heard about the WOW Women on Writing Blog Tour for The Economy Always Gets Better, I flashed back to my high school economics class. Sadly, about the only thing I remember is that Mr. P. had a yardstick and roamed the aisles as he chatted -- and occasionally smacked the desk of a sleeping student. In general, it was a nerve-wracking class. Apologies to Mr. P. but I retained a lot more reading this book. And no worries that the crack of a yardstick hit

Thanks to WOW Blog Tours and author Marysue Moses for a review copy of Looking Past Dementia. If you're of a certain age you might remember the TV ad Is it Live or is it Memorex? Apologies to the ad men of the 1980s, but now we're asking a new question: Is it normal aging or is it dementia? Looking Past Dementia helps us answer that question as well as figure out what comes next. More About Looking Past Dementia: Learning from Those Who Live with It In Looking Past Dementia,

Thanks to my beach hosts who had an entire bookshelf full of books to choose from, including The Cotton Queen. I love a Southern setting which is so different from my northeastern US life so The Cotton Queen was fun, especially for the waning days of summer. And props to Pamela Morsi who started out as a romance writer and, when she found romance less in demand, made a successful switch to the more general stories of women's fiction. More about The Cotton Queen The road away