It’s all about literary murder abroad in these two cozy mysteries — one in a French chateau and on aboard the most famous train in the world.
REVIEW: The Art of a Lie
In Georgian London, a widowed Hannah Cole is determined to keep her business afloat. She became sole owner of the confectioner’s shop in Piccadilly after her husband was found murdered. The story takes the reader to the underground rivers of London, pleasure gardens, a magistrate’s office before the days of a police force.
REVIEW: The Hounding
It’s a searingly hot summer in an unnamed year in the English countryside. And then people start hearing the howling, and someone claims to see something unnatural. Superstition and fear bake and crack in the summer sun as odd happenings continue.
REVIEW: The Dark Library
The Dark Library is a grown-up Nancy Drew with a WWII homefront twist. Estella enlists the help of her friends — a librarian, a fellow scholar, a dressmaker, and a young man who just might be worthy — to hunt for clues of how her father spent more money than he earned and what might have happened to her mother.
REVIEW: The Cat Who Saved the Library
The Cat Who Saved The Library is a worthy volume in this delightful series. Tiger the talking tabby cat is back with a teammate to rescue stolen books from oblivion.