The Last Days of Night  is a newish release by Graham Moore, best known for his debut book, The Sherlockian . It explores the dawn of t...

I forget where I saw a review or comment that made me think I needed to put The Impossible Fortress  by Jason Rekulak on my library hol...

I was hoping that The Book of Speculation  by Erika Swyler would be something special but, sadly, I found that it fell short in the det...

I'll admit that I initially ran hot and cold on the idea of House of Thieves  by Charles Belfoure. I am not always a fan of gangs and...

One of the books that I finished last year but didn't have time to review was The Map of the Sky  by Félix J. Palma, sequel to 2011...

A couple of years back, we took a family vacation up to Victoria, BC and I was lucky enough to meet up with a fellow blogger  at the gorg...

The last book I read for the RIP Challenge (and finished hours before my wrap-up post but didn't bother to go back and change it) was ...

Recently out in paperback, 31 Bond Street is first time novelist Ellen Horan's imaginings of the story behind and around the real Janua...

I put off watching Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist  for the longest time because I was annoyed that they copied the names of my bel...

The Death Instinct  follows doctor and former Freudian psychoanalyst Stratham Younger and police captain James Littlemore through a harrowin...

Last year I reviewed, Holiday Grind , the eighth coffeehouse mystery by Cleo Coyle.  Now the ninth book, Roast Mortem , has just been releas...

There seems to be no shortage of books set in World War II these days.  And yet each one manages to explore and expose the conflict from a ...

After loving The Historian a few years back, I couldn't wait for Elizabeth Kostova's next novel. Though it is about quite a diffe...

I need to be more adventurous when it comes to choosing books. I saw Betsy Carter's The Puzzle King in an upcoming releases list but d...

A few years ago the husband and I discovered the Thin Man movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. We loved them for their wit and hu...

A couple of months ago this book caught my eye and I finally just got the chance to read it. I was attracted to Suzanne Weyn's Distant...

It has probably been a decade since I read through all of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories so it was nice to revisit the ch...

If you are in the mood for a historical fiction that is much heavier on the fiction than the history, try Samantha Hunt's novel about Ni...

My reading list of late is full of books set in Victorian times. My most recent read, The Spiritualist by Megan Chance, is set in New York...

Recently, in all of the talk about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , another book was mentioned that I have wanted to read...