Category: Mystery

Dec 29 2025

Reading Resolutions Roundtable, 2026 edition

As 2025 fades around us, Frumious Consortiumists Doreen, Doug and Emily are thinking about our reading plans for 2026! Whether we make official resolutions or not, we all have some definite goals. Emily: Okay, let’s chat new year! Do you make reading resolutions? Anything you’re planning or particularly looking forward to in 2026? Starting in …

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Dec 22 2025

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead

As a winter treat to myself — while I’m supposed to be on break with the rest of my industry, lolol — I decided to finally crack open one of my most anticipated books this year. Ashley Winstead broke my heart in 2023 with Midnight Is The Darkest Hour, so I was ready for This …

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Dec 16 2025

Asylum Murders by Michael G Colburn (EXCERPT)

Hello, readers! We have a treat for you today with an excerpt from the second installment of Michael G Colburn’s twisty historical Lady Black mystery series. Asylum Murders finds our heroine, London thief turned Australian high society widow Lady Edith “Edie” Black, in the midst of establishing her mostly secret career as a private investigator. …

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Dec 04 2025

Murder Runs In The Family by Tamara Berry

Honestly, every new Tamara Berry book is a treat, and I’m so glad I could finally get to this one! I’ve read all of her other mystery novels save one, and it was so disappointing to learn that her publishers aren’t picking up more of either of her prior series, both of which are excellently …

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Nov 30 2025

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith

Three cases present themselves to the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in The Great Hippopotamus Hotel, the twenty-fifth book in Alexander McCall Smith’s long-running series. Well, if not necessarily cases then situations that Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi feel obliged to untangle. Maybe not three, either, more accurately two and a half, given that one …

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Nov 26 2025

Murder Among The Stacks by Rosie A Point & Charles Timmerman

It is the day before Thanksgiving and I’m so tired. Are you tired? This year has been endless, and even reading has become something of a chore. My brain keeps yearning for something that’s charming and mildly stimulating that doesn’t feel like work. So you can imagine my relief at cracking open this book and …

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Nov 24 2025

The Secrets Of The Old Post Cemetery by Patricia Crisafulli (EXCERPT)

Patricia Crisafulli is back with the third book in her Ohnita Harbor Mystery Series, starring small town librarian, authenticator and educator Gabriela Domenici! Our heroine is excited about the latest assignment she’s devised for her students. The Traitor’s Map that was recently donated to an Ohnita museum might not be the most accurate map of …

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Nov 18 2025

Exo by Colin Brush (EXCERPT)

Hello, dear readers! Today, we have a thrilling excerpt for you from a debut novel that expertly melds a future Earth devastated by climate change with a compelling murder mystery, featuring an octogenarian sleuth. Our heroine Mae Jameson is no Miss Marple tho. Thirty years ago, she returned to a hostile Earth, determined to find …

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Nov 11 2025

The Tutor by Courtney Psak (EXCERPT)

Hello, dear readers! Today we have a taste of a domestic thriller set in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Florida. Told from the points of view of three generations of women, The Tutor is a novel about the dark side of privilege, the long shadow of family, and how far some women will go …

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Oct 28 2025

Poison Wood by Jennifer Moorhead (EXCERPT)

Hello, dear reader! We have a terrific spooky season excerpt for you today, with an atmospheric new thriller set in one of my own nightmare locations: boarding school. Jennifer Moorhead’s Poison Wood follows an ambitious journalist as she discovers that the secrets she thought long buried are cropping up in unexpectedly chilling ways. Crime reporter …

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