An American Bluestocking
The diary of an intrepid reader
Recent Reviews
The Man in the Brown Suit
A young English woman thinks she has witnessed a murder, and impulsively pursues the culprit all the way to South Africa in this standalone tale from the Queen of Mystery.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A man under house arrest in a Moscow hotel following the 1917 Bolsehvik Revolution nonetheless finds plenty to occupy his time, his mind and his heart.
Golden Girls Forever
Author Jim Colucci goes behind the scenes at a classic 1980s sitcom.
Miss Silver goes to Deeping in ‘The Fingerprint’
Was Jonathan Field murdered because he cut his beloved niece out of his will, or did he possess the key clue to solving a pair of wartime murders?
Poirot toils to solve the 12 ‘Labors of Hercules’
Hercule Poirot sets out to solve one case for each of the 12 labors performed by his namesake of Greek mythology.
Library lovers will revel in the historical fiction of ‘The Lions of Fifth Avenue’
Living inside a library sounds like a dream. But the social tumult of the early 1900s can’t be kept outside the walls forever. What really happened to the Lyons family all those years ago?
A deaf woman lip-reads her way into danger in ‘The Listening Eye’
Miss Silver has her hands full when she is hired by a deaf woman who learns via lip-reading about two men planning a robbery and murder.
Bosch is back to solve a pair of cold cases in ‘The Wrong Side of Goodbye’
A dying billionaire wants Harry Bosch to find his long-lost heir — who may not even exist. Meanwhile, Bosch is on the trail of a serial rapist, a case whose solution might hit a little too close to home.
Archaeology and murder mix again in Griffiths’ ‘The Night Hawks’
Ruth Galloway is back in Norfolk, and it doesn’t take the archaeology professor long to pick up the threads of her old life, including getting swept up in a murder investigation.
Happiness is having your own library card.
Sally Brown in Peanuts
My Life Is an Open Book
Hi, I’m Julia. I started reading before kindergarten, and I haven’t stopped since. The next best thing to reading a book is talking about it with friends.
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