Mystica

  Four friends gone their different ways but brought together by the death of one in their group. Her last request that they spend two whole months on the remote island of Scarty to reminis...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-letter-from-ireland-by-ann-oloughlin.html

  Carla, a professor in archaeology has just started work at a new university in Jericho. Still trying to come to term with her husbands suicide, she is sensitive to nuances around her and ...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/death-rites-by-sarah-ward.html

  Luke Steele works as a military aide to the President and due to a terrorist attack has to return to his hometown. Luke has horrible memories of high school and the constant attacks he wa...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/hometown-vendetta-by-traci-hunter.html

  The story highlighting domestic violence was brutal but realistic. The extent to which defending lawyers will go to shred any opposition and get their clients to go free to wreck damage o...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/out-of-silence-by-marie-theodore.html

  Stephen Robbins is rather introverted but a reputation for finding missing persons and solving unsolvable crimes precedes him. It is the 1920s and he lives with his three year old son Luk...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-devil-hath-pleasing-shape-by-terry.html

  Blogger does this to me, especially when I want to show a particularly nice cover. The Eleanor Swift mysteries follow a pattern. Lady Eleanor and her faithful butler generally followed by ...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/murder-on-nile-by-verity-bright-eleanor.html

  This is not a book I’d normally pick up but I was surprised how easily I slipped into the story. Birdie has super powers but she has irked many of her bosses, with unruly and uncontro...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/flipping-birdie-by-s-l-woeppel.html

  The story was a good but a twisted one. Plenty of solid characters, especially strong willed women. However it could get confusing with the constant change of place and period. One had t...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/where-secrets-stay-by-cherann-wright.html

Set in Regency England the story of the two antiquities brokers and how the best friends fell apart forms the beginning of the story. Olivia and her sister are left with nothing as their fath...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-cloverton-charade-by-sarah-e-ladd.html

  Shades of Bridgerton here adding the beginnings of mixed race and black origin people in society, and the somewhat grudging acceptance of these folks in the community. Lady Worthing and ...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/10/murder-in-berkeley-sqyare-by-vanessa.html

Two interesting timelines. Paris 1943 on the brink of being overwhelmed and then the Nazi occupation. Cora lie is a young woman and does not know how the future is going to be. Even though ve...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-resistance-bakery-by-siobhan-curham.html

  Eloise, owner of an antiquarian bookshop is on a mission. A recent discovery amongst her mothers effects convinces Eloise, that her mother imprisoned till her death and convicted of her f...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-killer-clue-by-victoria-gilbert.html

  The story is a common one. A young woman goes on a date, her body found with stab wounds. A second woman goes missing, no body found. I found the lack of communication between these young...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/her-last-walk-home-by-patricia-gibney.html

  Juno is a Jill of all trades and is quite busy trying to juggle it all. She also keeps an eye on Maisie an elderly, demanding lady and is soon entangled with her friends nephew newly arr...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/death-on-dartmoor-edge-by-stephanie.html

  The story was fascinating from several viewpoints. We have Ireland 1920, simmering like a cauldron ready to explode. The IRA and Sinn Fein at loggerheads with the British government who o...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-cold-light-of-day-by-anna-lee-huber.html

A series of cozy mysteries but this is good reading as a stand alone. Kitty and Fiona are friends and when Kitty suffers a attack and subsequently has amnesia not remembering who Fiona is, ...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/poison-in-piccadilly-by-kelly-oliver.html

  The premise that we really do not know a person very well, however deep the friendship or relationship is, is epitomised in this story. Jo thought she knew the Willoughby family very we...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-house-of-lost-secrets-by-anstey.html

  Kitty and Matt are on a country drive when Kitty on her way to buy cider comes across a body, brutally done in. When the police arrive and when Kitty and Matt start their own investigatio...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/murder-in-countryside-by-helena-dixon.html

  Savi’s beginnings were inauspicious. Her upturn started in the house of the nuns, where she was schooled and learned that keeping her head down was the way to get ahead. Seconded for se...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/missy-by-raghav-rao.html

Sarah is a retired GP and Daphne is the owner of a tarot shop. The two ladies are poles apart in temperament and looks but they balance each other very well. They’ve had one stint of solvin...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-seaside-murder-by-alice-castle.html

  1938 Paris was precarious. Most Parisians thought the Nazi operations was going to be something that would not impact them. By the time it did, it was too late for many of the elite and d...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-paris-understudy-by-aurelius-thiele.html

  Judith and Miriam are sisters along with their vicar father live in a small village in Regency England. Appearances and respectability are paramount. Judith likes to keep to the rules and...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/two-spinsters-and-corpse-by-eve.html

  Ally has realised her dream of opening a small bed and breakfast inn in a small town. She looks forward to her guests but her introduction to the hospitality world was brutal. Her first g...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/murder-in-scottish-highlands-by-dee.html

  Detective Katie did not expect anything on her morning run. She and her dog Cisco encountered a little girl deep in the forest, terrified and sobbing. Further on a house reveals four murd...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/count-their-graves-by-jennifer-chase.html

  Abu Ben-Zhair a terrorist wants to bring the West to its knees. He succeeds with his first attempt which left everyone in disarray. His grandiose scheme is now to attack a fault in our ea...

https://musingsfromsrilanka.blogspot.com/2024/09/cause-of-all-causes-by-james-marinero.html