Shakespeare's Landlord: a Lily Bard mystery by Charlaine Harris

A re-read The original is here . Still recommended, but carries a trigger warning for rape and assault (in Lily's backstory).

The Devil's Revolver by V. S. McGrathHettie Alabama is a seventeen-year-old girl growing up on a ranch in Montana with her Mother, Grace, her father, John ( Read more... )

An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris

In this latest addition to the series, Harper and her step-brother Tolliver (!) (he spends much time this story reminding people that he isn't actually her brother) travel to South Carolina, to Knott County, whose sheriff, Sandra Rockwell, is desperate. Young teenage boys, six of them now, have been vanishing ( Read more... )

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieMy second Miss Marple mystery is copyrighted 1930, so it was written probably just before the depression hits. We are in the small village of St. Mary Mead, where Vicar Len Clement is saddled with an unpleasant situation. Local squire Col. Protheroe, probably the least liked man in the village, is planning ( Read more... )

Grave Sight by Charlaine HarrisI didn't intend to read this one when I did. It was meant to go on the bottom of the TBR pile, and I probably would have gotten around to it by now, but I started reading it on the bus on the way home from buying it, and was half-way through by the time I got here, so it made more sense to keep going than to put it ( Read more... )

Poppy Done to Death: an Aurora Teagarden mystery by Charlaine HarrisRoe's life is kind of working out, lately, so of course someone is about to die, and Roe will find the body. This time it's her . . . I'm not sure what the technical term for the relationship is. The daughter-in-law of her mother's second husband, the titular Poppy. Roe finds ( Read more... )

A Fool and his Honey: an Aurora Teagarden mystery by Charlaine HarrisWhen Roe married her husband Martin, she took on a lot more family than she was used to, he being older than her and previously married to boot. When his niece shows up with a baby no one in the family will admit to knowing she had, and then just as mysteriously disappears, ( Read more... )

Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine HarrisSurprisingly little of the story takes place in Shakespeare, actually. Lily goes home for the holidays to attend her little sister's wedding. Since it takes place in the middle of the series, her boyfriend shows up unexpectedly, and it turns out he's on a case. And then a friend gets murdered . . . ( Read more... )

Armed & Magical by Lisa Shearin

Sequel to Magic Lost, Trouble Found finds Raine in trouble on the Isle of Mid, home of the magical college, the Archmagus, and the only hope she has of getting rid of the magical artifact that bound itself to her in the last book. That she gets to spend time with the handsome Mychael Eiliesor doesn't hurt. But ( Read more... )

Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow A different series from my previous flirtations with Saintcrow's work; a bit darker, I think, and considering that the last ones had the hero going up against Satan himself, that's saying something. Jill Kismet is a Hunter; she does Exorcisms and tracks down "Hellbreeds" in a nonstandard, multiracial world. ( Read more... )

Or mostly, anyway.

The Android's Dream by John Scalzi A bureaucrat farts out a deadly insult to a scent-sensitive alien race, leading Earth to the brink of war with a vastly more powerful empire. For even a hope of peace, the aliens want a sheep of a special breed designed especially for them, but all the animals both on the alien homeworld and ( Read more... )