Marilyn's Mystery Reads

Maggie, Ben, Declan, Ingrid, and Lloyd are the members of what they have chosen to call The Martini Club.  They are former CIA agents who have retired, somewhat reluctantly, to the small town of Purity, Maine.

Although they profess to be happy in their new lives, it’s only Lloyd Slocum, Ingrid’s husband and a former analyst rather than an operative, wh...

I can’t think of another author who is so willing to make fun of himself as Anthony Horowitz.  Perhaps when you are the author of over 50 books in the genres of mystery, fantasy/suspense, and young adult novels you are confident enough in your abilities to engage in a little gentle self-mockery.  Horowitz does it so well.

For those unfamiliar w...

It’s hard to imagine a more unhappy childhood than the one Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick had.  Bullied unmercifully by her schoolmates, her only friend is Daphne, who is there for Mabel when no one else is.  Other than Daphne, the only bright spots in her life are her aunt Cess and Cess’s friend Ness. The two women stay with Mabel when her parents are traveling, w...

When I read the August 26th article by Sara Lyall in The New York Times about Peter Grainger, the pen name of British author Robert Partridge, I was immediately intrigued.  Also a bit embarrassed.  Here is a best-selling author of 17 mysteries who is totally unknown to me.

I ordered his first D. C. Smith novel, An Accidental Death, on Kindle a...

As president of B & H Foods, Margot Harriman is used to being successful at everything she does.  That includes fundraising, even if most of the credit goes to the all male New York City Charity Hospital board.  This is, after all, the early 1900s, and men are in charge of nearly everything.

Margot is discussing the plans for the upcoming gala in s...