Even poor children in India like watching television detectives. Nine-year-old Jai and his best friend Pari have their first case. Their classmate, Bahadur, turns up missing from their neighborhood. And he isn’t the only missing child. They investigate in the slums of India as the Djinn Patrol on the PurpleContinue Reading
Author Guest Post Getting Serious About Humor: Why We Don’t All Laugh at the Same Things A book categorized as a “humorous mystery” can be considered hilarious by one reader and totally off the mark by another. It may be the quality of the writing, but it may also beContinue Reading
Molded 4 Murder (Sophie Kimball Mystery) by J.C. Eaton My Review When an acclaimed local potter is killed by suffocation, he is truly Molded 4 Murder. In Glendale Arizona, Phee is a bookkeeper at Williams Investigations, a private detective firm. One day two acquaintances come in asking for Phee’s help.Continue Reading
Family secrets abound in Murder at the Mill. Painter Iris rents a cottage on the grounds of famous mystery writer Dom’s large Hampshire family estate. Iris is deciding what to do about her verbally abusive husband and failing marriage. When Ariadne, Dom’s wife, hires Iris to paint his portrait, IrisContinue Reading
Ask Me No Questions is an excellent start to a new gilded age female amateur detective series. Philomena Amesbury, Lady Dunbridge, has finally finished the obligatory 18-month mourning period for her husband. The Earl of Dunbridge, was, by all accounts, not a very good husband. Deciding that staying in EnglandContinue Reading
What Butterfly Conspiracy results in a woman’s death after a rare butterfly lands on her arm? Merula is left by her mother at her family’s house as a baby five years after her mother’s escape from the rigid Victorian house’s rules. Luckily, Merula’s fascination with butterflies is supported by herContinue Reading