Today’s #mondaydelights post is a bit of a double-up – rather like its main character. Veronica Speedwell, whose name signifies both a plant and the butterflies she studies, is a lepidopterist working in (or, when she can, out of) 19th-century London. She’s the star of a mystery series by Deanna Raybourn, and her adventures have […]
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Mystery Monday: Veronica Speedwell
Posted in musings, tagged butterflies, Deanna Raybourn, delight, fiction, joy, lepidopterist, London, mystery, Veronica Speedwell, whimsy on March 13, 2023| 3 Comments »
Mystery Monday: Hayley Snow
Posted in books, tagged cozy mystery, Florida, food, food writing, foodies, Hayley Snow, Key West, Lucy Burdette, mysteries, mystery, Mystery Monday on August 15, 2022| 6 Comments »
Seven or eight years ago now, I got an email from an author, offering to send me an ARC of a cozy mystery for review. I said yes with reservations: I love a mystery, but cozies are sometimes too cutesy for me, plus the writing isn’t always very good. But I devoured (ha) Death with […]
Mystery Monday: Sparks and Bainbridge
Posted in books, tagged England, London, marriage, mystery, relationships, World War II on August 1, 2022| 3 Comments »
It’s no secret I love a British mystery – particularly one featuring a whip-smart female sleuth or two. Bonus points for chic fashions, romantic tensions, and lingering effects of one or both world wars. (Maisie Dobbs does this last particularly well.) During a browse at the Strand a few years ago, I discovered a (then) […]
Mystery Monday: Chen Su Lin
Posted in musings on July 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
It’s no secret I love a good mystery series, especially in the summer. But I admit my taste runs toward the American or Anglophone: Maisie Dobbs, Mary Russell, Sara Paretsky, Lane Winslow (not to mention the queen herself, Agatha Christie). So I’ve been particularly relishing my newest mystery kick, for a taste of something different: […]
Mystery Monday: Samantha Clair
Posted in books, tagged Judith Flanders, London, mystery, Mystery Monday, publishing, Samantha Clair on May 7, 2018| 2 Comments »
It’s no secret around here that I love a mystery – especially a British one. In addition to classics like Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie, I can appreciate a modern-day British detective with a sharp eye and a crackling wit. Bonus points for nosy amateur sleuths with enjoyable supporting characters (because I love a good […]
Mystery Monday: Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne
Posted in books, tagged Clare Fergusson, faith, Julia Spencer-Fleming, mystery, Mystery Monday, Russ Van Alstyne, series on March 5, 2018| 17 Comments »
A cop and a priest walk into a crime scene. It’s a feature of several mystery series I love: Grantchester, the excellent ITV drama based on James Runcie’s novels about Sidney Chambers and Inspector Geordie Keating. Inspector Lewis, the BBC series in which Lewis and his sergeant, Hathaway (who trained for the priesthood) solve mysteries […]
Mystery Monday: Daisy Dalrymple
Posted in books, tagged 1920s, Carola Dunn, cozy, Daisy Dalrymple, England, mystery on June 22, 2015| 6 Comments »
As I noted recently, I’m always reading something gentle these days. I especially love a good series, since it allows me to dip into the same fictional world over and over. I also love a mystery, and the latest series I’ve fallen for – which fits into both categories – is the Daisy Dalrymple mystery […]
Mystery Monday: Sidney Chambers
Posted in books, tagged BBC, Cambridge, England, Grantchester, mystery, TV on February 9, 2015| 6 Comments »
During my trip to Oxford last fall, I picked up a mystery novel at Blackwells: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death. (It was on the 3-for-2 table, and I love a good British mystery.) Sidney is a young, jazz-loving priest living in Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England, in the 1950s. As the […]
Mystery Monday: Mrs. Pollifax
Posted in books, tagged CIA, espionage, Mrs. Pollifax, mystery, whimsy on May 26, 2014| 8 Comments »
I should know by now that when my friend Jacque recommends something, I am basically guaranteed to love it. This has been true for Gilmore Girls, bacon-and-egg baguettes, pasta carbonara (her famous recipe), and many, many books. (She is also partly responsible for the three semesters I spent in Oxford, and by a lovely trick […]
Mystery Monday: Wimsey & Vane
Posted in books, tagged Dorothy Sayers, England, Harriet Vane, Lord Peter Wimsey, mystery, World War I on November 25, 2013| 6 Comments »
As my periodic reading roundups show, I am on a serious Dorothy Sayers kick this fall. I blame my friend Hannah. Back in August, Hannah suggested Sayers’ Gaudy Night for our occasional book club’s September meeting. I had read and loved Gaudy Night during my first stint in Oxford in 2004 (it’s set there), so […]
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