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Death at Bishop’s Keep

Version 1.0.0 Spiritualism and Secrets Author: Robin Paige Kathryn Ardleigh (Kate) is barely making ends meet, so when a surprise missive informs her that she has rich relatives in England who are offering her a lucrative position, she takes the leap and leaves America. Kate is also a penny-dreadful novelist on the side, and she suspects that this new transatlantic adventure might give her some material for her next book. She is eerily correct. Kate’s arrival is greeted with a murder. The body of an unknown man has been found at a nearby archeological dig. Sir Charles, a budding [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-10T19:21:16-07:00December 10th, 2025|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, Death at Bishop's Keep, Kathryn Ardleigh Series, mystery, read, reading, Victorian mystery|

Butcher and the Wren, The

“Nothing is worse than being forgotten.” Author: Alaina Urquhart After starting the Dr. Wren Muller series out of order, reading and falling hard for The Butcher Game, I went back to the inception of a killer. The Butcher and the Wren is the first in the series, and it follows Jeremy Rose’s rise to fame as the Bayou Butcher and his entanglement with Dr. Wren, a forensic pathologist who is hot on his trail and has a personal vendetta against him. Jeremy started his tendency towards violence young, dragging a friend into his escalating schemes and cover-ups. As author Alaina Urquhart [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-21T21:33:24-07:00November 21st, 2025|Tags: book review, Butcher and the Wren, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Awash

Maggie Shocks Readers Author: Dawn Lee McKenna Wyatt, Apalachicola’s sheriff, Maggie’s boss, and Maggie’s secret boyfriend, has made good on his promise. He is leaving his position so that the couple can now be official, but his attempt to steady the sometimes-rocky relationship might run aground when a terrible new case upsets Maggie’s emotional stability, launching her into the traumas of the past and into the arms of the town’s kingpin, Bennet Boudreaux. In Landfall we learned a terrible secret that explains everything, in Dead Wake we watched this secret churn under the surface and here, and in Awash, we see [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-01T14:30:17-07:00November 1st, 2025|Tags: Awash, book review, cozy mystery, Dawn Lee McKenna, Forgotten Coast, mystery, read, reading|