by | Dec 28, 2012 | Review
“A solid month of baking and chasing bargains and wrapping and decorating and secret keeping, and it all came down to this…” is the first sentence in this book, and a lot of us can relate. “This” is a messy house, family members getting...
by | Dec 26, 2012 | Review
Susan Henshaw has made it through another Christmas (if you’ve read Wolzien’s We Wish You a Merry Murder, you know that Christmas is a major production for Connecticut super housewife Susan) and is getting ready for her annual New Year’s party. Susan...
by | Dec 21, 2012 | Review
Meg Langslow is Caerphilly County’s “Mistress of the Revels” in the Christmas entry in this series, and that means she’s in charge of the annual Christmas parade. With a “12 Days of Christmas” theme, there are plenty of birds,...
by | Dec 19, 2012 | Review
Lady Georgianna is 35th in line for the British throne, but she’s also penniless, unemployed, and stuck in a gloomy old castle eating beans on toast for Christmas. When she gets a chance to help out at a country house party in a tiny village in Devonshire, it...
by | Dec 14, 2012 | Review
Think of this as a cookbook with a story — half the book is composed of recipes for an enormous buffet that is the setting for the mystery. The recipes are very chatty, and run the gamut from appetizers (dips, pickled herring, and popular items like quiche and...
by | Dec 12, 2012 | Review
Emily Andrew-Miceli and her dishy husband Etienne are tour guides shepherding a group of elderly Midwestern Geocachers through Scotland. Their group is goofy but fun — till people begin to explode. At least that’s what the medical examiners of rural...
