For a person who had a Halloween themed wedding reception complete with a huge haunted house wedding cake, intricately carved Jack O’Lanterns as centerpieces, handmade masks, wax lips, candy corn, candied apples and cobwebs dangling, you’d think I would have read every mystery that has wisps of the dark day, right? Well until I decided … Read more
Hide in the Dark—Frances Noyes Hart–1929–Doubleday Doran–OOP–but inexpensive copies are abundantly available Ah, a book after my own heart! Practically everything I love is within this title. An old manor in Maryland named Lady Court with ghostly undertones, a group of Jazz Age friends called the March Hares (anything that alludes to Alice in Wonderland … Read more
The Best 100 Mysteries of All Time–10 Titles-Number 2 Stone Quarry— S. J. Rozan 1999-St. Martin’s Press-IP To read a synopsis go here: https://bookshopblog.com/2011/11/05/no-79-stone-quarry-best-100-mysteries-of-all-time/ Billy Dead—Lisa Reardon–Viking Publishers-1998–IP To read a synopsis of the book go here: https://bookshopblog.com/2011/08/12/no-90-billy-dead-best-100-mysteries-of-all-time/ Murder Between the Covers—Elaine Viets–2003—-IP To … Read more
