Review Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder – T.A. Willberg

London, 1958: Elaborately disguised and hidden deep beneath the city’s streets lies the world of Miss Brickett’s, a secret detective agency, training and housing the mysterious Inquirers. From traversing deceptive escape rooms full of baited traps and hidden dangers, to engineering almost magical mechanical gadgets, apprentice detectives at Miss Brickett’s undergo rigorous training to equip……

Review Silence in the Library (Lily Adler Mystery #2) – Katharine Schellman

Regency widow Lily Adler has just started to feel settled into her new London home when her semi-estranged father arrives, intending to stay with her while he recovers from an illness. To placate and avoid him, she takes his place in a social visit with Lady Wyatt, a woman Lily doesn’t know. But when Lily……

CWA Dagger Award Winner – Sapere Books Historical

A few weeks ago I shared with you my thoughts on the CWA Dagger Award shortlist for Historical Mysteries. And tonight the winner will be announced! And I managed to read several of them! Snow by John Banville really didn’t work for me. Although it had a promising start, I was then completely thrown by……

Goodbye June – Hello July

And that was June. And it was great month for me. Work got quite busy, and a lot of the restictions got lifted by the end of the month as well. At some point I found myself working 10 days in a row (which was a bit hectic… but did result in a lovely salary).……

Review A Fiancee´s Guide to First Wives and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery #4)- Dianne Freeman

For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner has she sent her mother and daughter off on a shopping trip to Paris than she and her fiancé, George Hazleton, are socializing with visiting members of the Russian royal family. Yet amid this whirlwind, scandal……

Review The Ghost Tree – Christina Henry

When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in her hometown, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won’t find the killer. After all, the year before her father’s body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become……

Review Target: Kree – Stuart Moore

The Avengers clash with the Guardians of the Galaxy in a desperate search for a planet-killer, in this action-packed novel set in the world of the Marvel: Crisis Protocol game Following the destruction of their world, a group of Kree refugees come to Earth to work for Stark Enterprises. But the Guardians of the Galaxy arrive soon……

Middle Grade on Monday: Skyborn – Sinéad O’Hart

The circus has seen better days, but for Bastjan it’s home. He will do anything he can to save it, even if it means participating in a death-defying new act. But when that fails to draw in the crowds, the ringmaster makes a deal with a mysterious man by the name of Dr Bauer. In……

Review Wendy, Darling – A.C. Wise

For those that lived there, Neverland was a children’s paradise. No rules, no adults, only endless adventure and enchanted forests – all led by the charismatic boy who would never grow old. But Wendy Darling grew up. She left Neverland and became a woman, a mother, a patient, and a survivor. Because Neverland isn’t as……

Review The Girls who Stepped out of Line – Mari K. Eder

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII–in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of……