THE TBR 25 IN '25 CHALLENGE THE MT. TBR CHALLENGE My Sign Up Post This is my sign up post for the TBR 25 in '25 and Mt. TBR Challe...

  THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2021 was the 75th anniversary of the Edgar Awards , the prestigious award for mystery writing from the  Mys...

JANUARY WRAP UP One of my bookish New Year's resolutions was to try to post monthly wrap ups of the books I read each month. I haven...

  A splurge of new books! Yes, I think the collective noun for newly-purchased, yet unshelved books should be a splurge – like a murder of c...

Every year, the Mystery Writers of America award the "Edgar"  Award in nine categories of mystery and crime writing, plus a han...

COMPLETED This is my personal wrap up post for the 2018 European Reading Challenge. If you have completed the 2018 challenge, please...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it ...

June knocked on the door and waited, swaying a little, partly because the martini had been double, and partly because a radio down the ha...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it...

Every once in a while a diligent used book hound can hit it lucky. I did today when I happened to stop by Secondhand Prose , the Friends o...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia at A girl and her books (fka The Printed Page), who graciously hosted ...

Thomas H. Cook channeled his inner Daphne Du Maurier for his Edgar-winning mystery, The Chatham School Affair . This modern gothic extrav...

My father had a favorite line. -- The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook. This won the Edgar Award in 1997. It takes place in a ...

  Knitting and Sundries is hosting Mailbox Monday in November. Thanks Julie! Nothing came for me in the mail last week, but I did pick...