Leila Beaumont is a beautiful and very talented portrait artist, as celebrated throughout Europe as her husband, Francis, is becoming reviled. While Leila is aware of Francis adultery, his tendency to drink and take drugs to excess, she is unaware that he also ran a brothel in Paris and tended to make money through the blackmail of prominent members of society. While she hasn’t allowed him in her bed for years, Leila is nonetheless grateful to Francis for rescuing her when she was orphaned in […]
Chasing serial killers in Cincinnati
4.5 stars This is book 2 in a series. You’d be better off starting with Dead Witch Walking. Rachel Morgan has successfully paid off the IS death threat and is in her third month of working as an independent runner. She still doesn’t have a car, however, and hates relying on public transport or rides from friends to get around. She’s also struggling to pay her bills from month to month, so when a werewolf pack refuses to pay her for snatching their pet fish […]
A Tedious Mystery
Beatrice Lockwood, one of the intrepid ladies of Lantern Street, is in the middle of a case when her past comes back to haunt her. Joshua North, a former spy for the Crown, has come out of a self-imposed retirement after a disastrous case that left him scarred and forced to use a cane. He is hunting the villain who is blackmailing his sister. This is book two of The Ladies of Lantern Street, but I don’t think it was a problem not to have […]
Not quite Howling Good, but certainly Barking Mad
I might have to lay off cozies for a little bit. I didn’t highlight enough of this one for pull quotes, even.
Girl Detective and Cranky Cat for Hire
Since this is books 1 & 2 of a series I may as well review them together. Posie Parker has just set out her shingle as a Private Investigator after coming home from the Ambulance Brigade in WWI. She grew up as the daughter of a country vicar and after losing both her brother and her fiance to the war has decided she has no desire to go back to the small town life. Setting up shop on Grape Street in London with […]
Small Town Murderers come in Small Batches
Lake Eden’s too small to have more than one murderer. (Kindle edition, location 3056) More cozy, more cats, more murder, all inside!
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