Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Can't Wait Wednesday: Murder Most British by Helena Dixon (The Secret Detective Agency Book 3)

 


For this week's Can't Wait Wednesday hosted by Tressa at the book blog, Wishful Endings, I'm featuring, Murder Most British, by Helena Dixon. I have featured this series before but have yet to read it. Her other series with Kitty Underhay as the heroine started off cute and I have read the first one, Murder at the Dolphin Hotel. 

Murder Most British takes place in 1941 during WW II which is typically not my favorite era to read but this series looks cute. Jane Treen investigates murders with codebreaker Arthur Cilento as they also navigate the drama of the war around them. Another fun cozy series I'd like to read. 

Hope you have found something you can't wait for! Happy reading ya'll!






Cozy Mystery/Historical Mysteries

November 6 , 2025

Book description courtesy of GoodReads

Big Ben chiming in the distance, chilly walks along the river Thames, cocktails at the Ritz… and a government secretary dead? Only Jane Treen can solve the case!

London, 1941. Miss Jane Treen is faced with another mysterious disappearance within her Secret Detective Agency’s team. Tabitha Moore, a government typist, was on her way to meet Jane with vital information about some secret codes. But she didn’t turn up for work and has seemingly vanished without a trace. Then Jane and her colleague, handsome codebreaker Arthur Cilento, find a body has been found, and it matches Tabitha’s description.

It quickly becomes clear that Tabitha’s death was not due to ongoing air raids as the the silk scarf tied tightly around her neck suggests otherwise. The prime suspect is Tabitha’s fiancé Leo Cavendish, a dashing government official, but there are plenty of others with a motive too. Jane and Arthur scrutinize those around Tabitha at work and at home, including a charming newsreader reporting on government affairs, a jealous pianist in love with Leo, and a known womanizer and gambler fond of causing trouble.

Together, Jane, Arthur and her fluffy ginger cat Marmaduke hole up in her London townhouse, with black coffee in plentiful supply and a roaring fire in the grate. But just as they begin to piece together the puzzle, someone else is found dead. It’s clear they need to step up and catch the killer on the loose in the big smoke, before it’s their turn next.



Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish I Could Read Again For the First Time

 



This week's theme for Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl,is "Books I Wish I Could Read Again For the First Time." I seem to recall doing this one before but I'm going to resist the urge to look for a previous post. I want to see what I come up with today. Several are books I would not read now. I was in such a true crime phase in my 20's and don't like it at all now! But I tried to include all my years of reading in this list.

In no particular order here they are. If you read my blog at all, many on the list probably won't surprise you, lol.  Click on the title to link to Goodreads.

Happy Reading ya'll!

1. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (Book 3 of the Outlander series




2. The Land Beyond the Sea by Sharon Kay Penman



3. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell



4. North and South by John Jakes



5. The Courts of Love by Jean Plaidy (Eleanor of Aquitaine)



6. Queens of England by Norah Lofts



7. Susannah by Candice F. Ransom



8. The Shattered Crowns series by Christina Crofts



9. Alexandra: The Last Tsarina by Carolly Erickson




10. Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule 







Monday, October 13, 2025

Stacking the Shelves #71

 



Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Reading Reality. It's a place to showcase any books I have purchased, borrowed, or been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of. 

Hope you find something that looks interesting to you or that makes you remember a favorite book you need to finish. Happy reading ya'll!



Last Dance in Salzburg by Vivian Conroy (Miss Ashford Investigates #4)


Kindle Sale: 99 cents th
is week 

I have read the first two books in this series and enjoyed them. I have to read book three first but this is book 4 so I got it while it was only a dollar. The covers are beautiful and I love the unique location settings. Atalanta tries to uncover the truth behind the death of a convicted jewel thief. She has to sleuth among the European elite in 1930's Austria. 






A Perilous Premiere by Gail Meath (Stone and Steele Mysteries #1)

Kindle Points

Growing up with the old movies this series looked really charming to me. The author has written another successful one called Jax Diamond Mysteries, and this is her newest one. It's set in the 1930's Golden Age of Hollywood and the heroine is friends with Carole Lombard, owns a fashion boutique in Beverly Hills, and is trying to solve the recent murder of her banker husband. She has the unwanted help of Preston Stone, a man she doesn't care for at all. Should be a fun series set in an iconic period. 




Death at a Paris Hotel by Verity Bright (Lady Eleanor Swift #22)

Kindle Sale: 99 cents this week

I grab all of this series as I can. I am not up to this one yet but it was super cheap this week. Lady Eleanor and Hugh are honeymooning in Paris but just can't seem to avoid being drug into another case of murder. This time Eleanor thinks she knows the victim but isn't quite sure who he is. 

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Can't Wait Wednesday: A Christmas Witness by Charles Todd (An Inspector Ian Rutledge Novella)

 


For this week's Can't Wait Wednesday hosted by Tressa at the book blog, Wishful Endings, I'm featuring, A Christmas Witness, by  Charles Todd. This is yet another series I'd like to start. Set in the 1920's its main character is Inspector Ian Rutledge and I like to read some cozy mysteries with males as the lead. So many have women so it's nice to change it up! This story also has the Christmas vibe which is great with the holidays approaching soon. 

This story is a short novella, probably because it's a holiday one and while I'm not fond of novellas and short stories, when they are part of a series I will usually read them to fill in any gaps in the story. I hope you've found something you can't wait to read this week. Happy reading ya'll!



Christmas Mystery/Novella

 October 21, 2025

Book description courtesy of GoodReads

December 1921: Being single and a new Chief, Inspector Rutledge gets the short straw and is called upon by Chief Superintendent Markum to go to the Kentish home of a lord who is recovering from an attempt on his life. In bed with a concussion, the man is convinced someone is trying to kill him after he claims he was struck by the hoof of a running horse whose rider never stopped to check on him.

When he gets there, Rutledge learns that he and the lord were both young cavalry officers and graduated from Sandhurst together. As Rutledge’s investigation gets underway, he uncovers even more similarities between his life and that of the man he’s sent to protect, all of which grows eerily poignant as the Christmas holiday approaches…



Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: Satisfying Book Series

 





This week's theme for Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is Satisfying Book Series.  I love series and have way too many of them going at once. I'll probably never read them all but I like to read book one and decide if I want to continue. It has to really be good for me to keep going past the first 2-3 books and I'm becoming more selective as there are just so many!  

The ones I've listed below are my absolute favorites (yes I repeat them often in these types of posts) and ones I either have read many or most of in the series or intend to. So enjoy, hopefully you find one you like from my list, and I can't wait to see other bloggers' lists. Might give me some new ideas! 

Happy reading ya'll!

Click on the link for GoodReads