Claire | December 20, 2011
Congratulations to MelanieP, J A Shuler and Anne Elizabeth who won Miss Dimple book sets from our recent giveaway! I’ve emailed you three for your addresses and St Martin’s Press will send your books out as soon as possible. Thanks to all who entered! If you didn’t win but want to get your hands on [...]
Claire | December 12, 2011
To celebrate last week’s release of “Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause”, the latest book by Mignon F Ballard, Minotaur Books/St Martin’s Press have offered our visitors the chance to win a set of Miss Dimple books – 2 books: Miss Dimple Disappears and Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause. There are 3 sets up [...]
Claire | November 13, 2011
“Dangerous to Know” is the latest paperback instalment in the Lady Emily mystery series by novelist Tasha Alexander. I’ve just finished it and must admit that I’m now hungry to find the rest of the series – yes, my Amazon wishlist is rather long! This murder mystery is set in Normandy, France, and features a [...]
Claire | November 12, 2011
I’ve been going through a phase of reading historical mysteries and it’s been great fun because I’ve been exposed to new authors and a whole new genre. “Miss Dimple Disappears” by Mignon F. Ballard is set in Georgia in 1942, the Second World War so four hundred years away from my usual reading matter! In [...]
Claire | November 11, 2011
I have just discovered the delights of the Sister Fidelma mystery series by Peter Tremayne and I am now completely hooked! I have only read the two most recent novels, The Dove of Death and The Chalice of Blood, but I’m definitely going to be ordered books from earlier in the series now as these [...]
Claire | October 21, 2011
This book, described as a Medieval noir, is Jeri Westerson’s latest mystery novel featuring her medieval detective, Crispin Guest. It is one of a series featuring Guest and follows on from “Veil of Lies” and “Serpent in the Thorns”. When I saw that it was part of a series I was worried that I hadn’t [...]
Claire | February 8, 2011
“The Tudor Secret” is the latest novel from C W Gortner, author of “The Last Queen” and “The Confessions of Catherine de Medici”, and I was excited about reading it when I heard that it was actually the first book in a series called “The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles” and was described as being “filled [...]
Claire | July 28, 2009
A review of “Dissolution” by guest reviewer, Tim Ridgway (my husband!). It must be said that I was not really sure what to expect with this, my first Tudor-period crime thriller, but to sum up Dissolution in three words … it was gripping! Like many books, the first chapter was a little slow moving, and [...]
