Marilyn's Mystery Reads

Meet Roger Smith.  He’s a sixty-five-year-old widower who has spent his life working in the United States Printing Office, a man with a grown daughter and two grandchildren, who still lives in the house he and his late wife bought decades earlier.

Lying in bed in the middle of the night, he’s unable to sleep because of the red wine he drank at din...

We are back in Bitterfrost, Michigan, where it is (almost) always winter.  Criminal attorney Devyn Payne has returned to her hometown after living and working in the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck.  Even she’s not certain why she left a lucrative law practice to “switch sides” and become a member of Genevieve Harris’ prosecution team, but something has...

As both author and narrator of this book, Teresa Dovalpage returns to Havana, the city of her birth, in The Novel Detective to try to unravel a mystery concerning two deaths at her former school.  Although decades have passed, Teresa has never forgotten the horror of the day when Yoyi, another girl at the school, and Felipe, the Spanish teacher,...

Step back nearly 150 years to 19th-century London, a city of horse-drawn carriages, men with top hats and women with crinoline cages, and the largest population in the world.  Scotland Yard was 50 years old and not held in high esteem, and children as young as ten were put “in service” to wealthy households; a compulsory education law for children ages f...