Posted on May 8th, 2013 by ascplpop
Paging the Dead by Brynn Bonner. Genealogist Sophreena McClure is an expert at unearthing other people’s secrets. Using old documents and photographs, Soph and her business partner, Esme Sabatier–also a gifted medium–trace family histories and create heritage scrapbooks. Their latest client, Dorothy Pritchett Porter, is thrilled with their research. But before Dorothy can proudly display [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2013 by ascplpop
Marbeck and the Double-Dealer by John Pilkington. 1600 England. War with Spain has dragged on for fifteen years, the conflict in Ireland for six. Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck is bored. Then a message from his spymaster, Sir Robert Cecil arrives: the existence of a spy has been discovered, code-named Morera, and Marbeck must uncover the true identity [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2013 by ascplpop
Enjoy these novels set during the English Civil War and Restoration period. England, 1660. Ella Appleby believes she is destined for better things than slaving as a housemaid and dodging the blows of her drunken father. When her employer dies suddenly, she seizes her chance–taking his valuables and fleeing the countryside with her sister for [...]
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Posted on December 13th, 2012 by ascplpop
Staff mystery and thriller picks show the range of the genres–from cozy to traditional to historical and even something set in Scandinavia! Some Like it Hawk by Donna Andrews Book 14 in the Meg Langslow series. Meg helps run Caerphilly’s summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer. Size 12 and [...]
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Posted on November 23rd, 2012 by ascplpop
Even though it’s pie season, here are some “cake” books to enjoy. It’s Christmas on Georgia’s charming Sugarberry Island – and there’s no better time to enjoy delicious confections or the sweet thrill of falling in love. Kit Bellamy was raised on pie. Mamie Sue’s “Peanut Pies”, to be exact, the family company her scheming brother-in-law [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2012 by ascplpop
Join us this season as two English village vicars get mixed up in murder. In A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet, Max Tudor –Anglican priest, former MI5 agent, and village heartthrob–investigates two deaths at Chedrow Castle. But his growing attraction to New Age devotee Awena Owen complicates his case, as does the recent arrival at the [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2012 by ascplpop
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London 165 years ago on October 16, 1847, under the pen name “Currer Bell.” The pseudonym preserved the author’s real initials but hid the fact that the author was a woman because she “had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2012 by ascplpop
Along with Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett are considered the greatest authors of hard-boiled fiction. Who would have dreamed that these authors, who started writing in the 1920s and 1930s, would have new books published in 2012? Cain was working on his final novel, The Cocktail Waitress, at the time of his death [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2012 by ascplpop
It’s been said that the pun is the lowest form of humor, but that doesn’t stop cozy mystery authors when they’re creating titles for their books! Mary Daheim, whose previous titles include A Streetcar Named Expire and Suture Self, tells us that The Wurst is Yet to Come in her 27th Bed-and Breakfast Mystery. Donna [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2012 by ascplpop
Three of James Patterson’s co-authors have books coming out this summer. The Wrong Man by David Ellis. The 24-hour news cycle is abuzz when the police arrest homeless Iraq war veteran Mike Stoller for the murder of a young paralegal. Stoller doesn’t deny killing the woman, but his post-traumatic stress disorder is so bad that he [...]
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