Daniel Palmer: Desperate
Just when you think there can’t be a new twist to a story, along comes Daniel Palmer, who surprises readers yet again with his newest thriller, Desperate. Told strongly in first person from the point...
View ArticleAlyssa Maxwell: The Gilded Newport Mysteries
Please welcome the author of the Gilded Newport Mystery series, Alyssa Maxwell, who will give us look into her historical series: Write What You Know? No! If you take a look at my website, you’ll see...
View ArticleSummer Kickoff: Hannah, Casey, Dahl, Mina, Russell, French, Eriksson
Summer beckons with new books ready for you to investigate. Here’s some of the newest summer crop to get you started with great reads: Sophie Hannah’s The Telling Error is her newest entry in the...
View ArticleJill Paton Walsh: The Late Scholar
Jill Paton Walsh has the daunting task of continuing the Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries in a fashion Dorothy L Sayers would have approved. After completing two unfinished Sayers’ manuscripts...
View ArticleD. P. Lyle: Original Sin
What if?: The Crucial First Question So you have a cool idea for a story. Big deal. Ideas are a dime a dozen. And ideas aren’t stories. To become a story, your idea must evolve into a premise, or what...
View ArticleArnaldur Indridason: Strange Shores
Multi-award winning Nordic author sets his Inspector Erlendur series in Iceland, where the detective has had to tackle the ghosts of many other criminals’ lives. In Strange Shores he brings Erlendur...
View ArticleCatriona McPherson: A Deadly Measure of Brimstone
Auntie M loves the cover art of Catriona McPherson’s newest Dandy Gilver Scottish mystery, A Deadly Measure of Brimstone. The strong series, among other awards, won the Bruce Alexander Memorial...
View ArticleElizabeth Haynes: Behind Closed Doors
Auntie M cannot deny she is a huge Elizabeth Haynes fan. From her first stand-alones (Into the Darkest Corner, Dark Tide, Human Remains), Haynes has taken the crime thriller and stood it on its ear...
View ArticleJames R. Callan: On sidekicks and Over My Dead Body, a Father Frank Mystery
Happy Mother’s Day! While Auntie M is visiting her Minnesota Grands, please welcome author James Callan, talking about sidekicks with a brief excerpt of his new release, OVER MY DEAD BODY: The Sidekick...
View ArticleWhat Doesn’t Kill her: Carla Norton
Carla Norton caught readers’ attention with last year’s debut The Edge of Normal, which introduced her most unusual protagonist, Reeve LeClaire. Norton’s back with its sequel, What Doesn’t Kill Her,...
View ArticleSummer Thrillers X 4: Meltzer, Hamilton, Kovacs, Freedland
Here are four great summer thrillers for readers out right now, whether you’re at the beach or reading before bed. And if you missed Steve Berry’s The Lincoln Myth when it first came out, that one is...
View ArticleDuncan Simpson: The History of Things to Come
Author Duncan Simpson will tell readers of the interesting story behind his novel, the first in a planned DARK HORIZON trilogy: THE HISTORY OF THINGS TO COME My novel THE HISTORY OF THINGS TO COME was...
View ArticleLouise Penny: The Nature of the Beast
Readers of this blog know that Auntie M is a huge fan of Louise Penny’s series. She thinks if he were real she could marry Inspector Gamache, even in his retirement! But is retirement really for...
View ArticleElizabeth George: Banquet of Consequences
Auntie M had the distinct pleasure of taking a Masters Class in Beginnings with Elizabeth George last week at New England Crimebake. One of her favorite authors, George’s class was succinct and...
View ArticleA. D. Garrett: Truth Will Out
Forensics expert Nick Fennimore and DI Kate Simms return in their third outing Truth Will Out/, a strong entry in the series that finds the two struggling against the professional boundaries that...
View ArticleThe Evening’s Amethyst: Nora Tierney #5
Auntie M is very pleased to announce that the fifth Nora Tierney English Mystery, THE EVENING’S AMETHYST, has made it through the Covid delays and the paperback is now available. Kindle and Audible...
View ArticleMarcia Clark: The Fall Girl
Hear the name Marcia Clark, and some of us think back to her work for the LA DA’s office prosecuting such trials as that of Robert Bardo and OJ Simpson. But there’s so much more to this talented...
View ArticleMariah Fredericks’: The Lindbergh Nanny
Mariah Fredericks’ THE LINDBERGH NANNY takes readers inside the homes of Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh, exploring their marriage, their travels, and the horrific kidnapping in 1932 of their...
View ArticleKate Rhodes: The Locked-Island Mysteries
Kate Rhodes has been a favorite author of Auntie M’s, starting with her compelling Alice Quentin series. Now that’s she’s branched out to her Locked-Island Mysteries, set in the Scilly Isles, Auntie M...
View ArticleDeborah Crombie: A Killing of Innocents
Crombie’s 19th Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James was worth waiting for, with The Killing of Innocents the new case that starts in a Bloomsbury pub. Sitting with his DS, Doug Cullen, Duncan notices a young...
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