Nick is an appealing character, I adored the detailed setting, and the mystery's resolution makes sense I hoped this was going to be the perfect cozy book for reading over a long weekend: an Elizabethan mystery This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. If you like mysteries and historical fiction like I do, you might also like some of the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies There are disturbingly dark issues underlying the mystery (including strict rules about caste and class Nev March won the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award for this, her debut title. You might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to

story about loss and a love of books; a darkly funny book about loss and grief; and the third and final mystery She receives a mysterious message from the owner of Book Lane, a local London bookshop, and learns that review. 06 The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3) by Tana French The third in the Cal Hooper series is a slow-burn mystery The Keeper is an almost 500-page slow burn mystery, and an undercurrent of tension and danger exists After a time the mystery is no longer a mystery; the main unknown is which form the community's renegade

The focus on the power of books is fantastic. the power of menopausal women and the poignant strength of friendship; supplies satisfying revenge fantasies camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries

I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , an art-focused historical fiction mystery in two timelines; I'm reading The Tainted Cup , a fascinating fantasy-science-fiction mystery by Robert The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , Ellery Lloyd offers a gorgeously wrought historical fiction mystery fiction-feeling story, a Sherlock Holmes and Watson-type investigatory relationship, and fascinating otherworldly fantasy

; I'm listening to Jen Hatmaker's memoir Awake ; and I'm listening to my newly discovered favorite fantasy Kingfisher imagines richly imagined fantasy worlds, and within them slots fantastically imperfect and This is my fantasy sweet spot. T. Kingfisher is also the author of many other novels.

The Books I'm Reading Now I guess this list is an Escape from Reality attempt, as I have three fantasy I'm listening to Ruby Dixon's sassy fantasy novel, Bull Moon Rising ; I'm reading M. L. Wang's recently published dark academia novel, Blood Over Bright Haven ; and I'm reading Frances White's fantasy story about mysterious deaths on a magical ship journey, Voyage of the Damned . The cover is arresting, and the sparkles and art are a nod to the novel's fantasy genre.

postwar San Francisco; I'm listening to The Knight and the Moth , the first in Rachel Gillig's rich fantasy series with a slight romantic storyline; and I'm reading Amity Gaige's Heartwood , a missing-persons mystery So far this is a richly built fantasy world with a minor romance aspect; it's a balance I'm really liking

adventure, a mystery to be solved, and simmering romance with No Swooning or Annoying Drama whatsoever Kingfisher imagines richly imagined fantasy worlds, and within them she slots fantastically imperfect This is my fantasy sweet spot. through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to SenLinYu's 1000-plus-page fantasy novel Alchemised , which started as dark Harry Potter fan fiction; I'm reading Benjamin Wood's northern-England-set quiet, mysterious 01 Alchemised by SenLinYu This beast of a fantasy novel (it's 1040 pages) tracks a healer and alchemist

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Tasha Suri's rich story-within-a-story fantasy novel The Isle in the Silver Sea ; I'm reading Thrity Umrigar's recently published mystery about a missing woman, our climate, the power of love, and the strength of assumptions, Missing Sam ; and I'm continuing my recent mystery Algonquin Books and NetGalley. 03 Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell I've been continuing my cold-weather mystery-reading

Wolfe Going into Thanksgiving weekend with an Elizabethan mystery in hand, complete with intrigue, plotting loyalists looming over Elizabeth's court, Nicholas Holt, a spy for Sir Francis Walsingham, must unravel the mystery This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. 03 Light fiction, historical fiction mystery, and celebrity memoir.

centuries-old war her people have waged against the ruthless summerlings--and the ferocious grudges those mysterious My Extensive Love for Naomi Novik's Fiction Naomi Novik is the author of richly wrought fantasy novels Novik has also written the Temeraire series of nine fantastic books about dragons, their riders, their

The romantic aspect is less essential than the fantasy elements, which I appreciated. At the first of a series of tournaments meant to illustrate Benji's control, a mysterious knight becomes wonders if he and she might find their way to each other again--at least in order to understand the mystery

In this dual-timeline historical fiction-fantasy-magical realism-witchy story, Martin explores the Suffolk trials of 1645 and builds a link between one of the accused and a modern-day woman coming into her own mysterious

Elaborate mythology swirls around the mysterious author of the blockbuster fantasy series The Falling Goldhero, and fans dream up fantastical stories about the writer and his life.

But one by one, the Osage began to be killed under mysterious circumstances. Edgar Hoover turning to a former Texas Ranger, Tom White, to head up the group trying to figure out the mystery Chakraborty I'm listening to the first wonderful installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final, , and smart, with wonderful banter, a gruff and independent, saucy main protagonist in Amina, and a fantastic

Cosby's Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously

Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to A Steeping of Blood , the second in Hafsah Faizal's supernatural fantasy The first installment in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series offered intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery

novel about a boy-band's nostalgic voyage with three thousand of their most dedicated fans, American Fantasy Elizabeth Strout is also the author of Olive Kitteridge. 02 American Fantasy by Emma Straub The American Fantasy ship is headed out on a four-day voyage, and its honored guests are the five-member nineties

dementia facing his last days, Emma Cline's Switzy; and I'm listening to Leigh Bardugo's newest dark fantasy series, Ninth House and Hell Bent, we met Alex Stern, who was offered a new start after surviving a mysterious

#mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview 02 My Lady Jane: The Lady Janies Series ​ I'd had fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary Queen of Scots--with an oddball fantasy This is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

Gothic-feeling multi-timeline work of literary fiction; magical realism and time travel; and a captivating mystery I listened to the first installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series, The Adventures Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final, review, check out Some Desperate Glory. 06 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what

Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian Carey (which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels For other science fiction and fantasy books I've read and reviewed, please check out the titles at this

In Kuang's dark academia fantasy novel Katabasis , Alice Law is a postgraduate student in a ruthlessly This is a clever, strange, dark, and often darkly funny fantasy. This is the type of romantic fantasy I adore. Tale of Two Cities  offered a compelling story of redemption and self-sacrifice with a significant fantasy In this historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 1930s Chicago and her mysterious benefactor, to be published tomorrow; I'm listening to Rebecca Makkai's novel I Have Some Questions for You (also to be published tomorrow), about a mysterious death at a boarding school and a return to the case and all the past issues it raises; and I'm reading the newest mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's newest mystery

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Sara Holland's upcoming fantasy novel Break Wide the Sea ; I'm When she catches wind of a valuable, mysterious piece of technology on another planet, she banks on her

Virginia Evans's charming epistolary novel The Correspondent ; and I'm listening to Karin Slaughter's mystery Kuang In Kuang's dark academia fantasy novel, Alice Law is a graduate student in a ruthlessly competitive

I recently mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to This one went straight to the top of my young adult mystery reading list. #youngadult, #mystery What are you reading now?

the six books I most loved reading this past month: a heartbreaking, lovely, epistolary Western; a fantasy story with war at the forefront and fantasy in the background; a collection of three short stories by a favorite author; a vulnerable celebrity memoir; the latest loooong installment in a favorite mystery series; and a cozy fantasy story--and love letter to coffee. I really liked this, but I was surprised by how light it felt on fantasy elements.

In this historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful I read the first in that series, The Magicians , for but me it was short on magic and fantastical elements

) by Freya Marske The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery Robin and Edwin's love is romantic and sweet and heartbreaking and sexy; the mystery at the heart of camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

reading: The Summer Guests , Tess Gerritsen's newest Martini Club offering, which centers around a mystery Schwab's historical fiction-fantasy story about vampires linked together through centuries.

Chakraborty's Daevabad fantasy trilogy, The City of Brass ; and I'm reading Olivia Hawker's upcoming The only thing that isn't a lie is her mysterious ability to instinctually, instantaneously heal others

attract, Dolly All the Time; and I'm listening to the second in Shannon Chakraborty's seafaring adventure-fantasy novel featuring the fantastically spirited Amina al-Sirafi, The Tapestry of Fate.

Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas "Qas" Seif work to solve the mystery of the girls' murders Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series (The Unquiet Dead, The She is also the author of The Khorasan Archives fantasy series (The Bloodprint is the first book in the You might like some of the other mystery and suspense titles I've reviewed on this site.

The fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious young adult mystery series showcases Stevie Bell's instincts But everything is upended when a decades-old mystery of deaths within a tight circle of Cambridge friends Her passion is solving mysteries, and, luckily, she finds a satisfying distraction in the form of the unsolved mystery involving David's new British friend's aunt--one of the friends in the group who had The mystery's resolution isn't too easy, and Stevie leans on procedure, dogged determination, and her

Favorites of the Month Please enjoy this roundup of my six favorite reads of February--three medieval-set fantasy forgiveness; historical fiction about strong women and the power of books; and the first in an FBI procedural mystery investigators who reinvent methods of finding their culprit in a smart, intriguing, and satisfying mystery This fantasy novel about the power of storytelling was wonderful .

This mystery hit the spot for me. The romantic aspect is less essential than the fantasy elements, which I appreciated. characters' energy is spent on pining and obsessing, where dramatic declarations overshadow a novel's fantasy The Knight and the Moth  is built on a spare yet satisfying fantasy world with a limited number of characters

Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd The Final Act of Juliette Lloyd  is a historical fiction art-focused mystery wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) offers a gorgeously wrought historical fiction mystery The mysterious appearance of what seems to be a Juliette Willoughby original, followed by a tragic death , while an unorthodox, brilliant investigator and her stalwart new assistant work to solve a murder mystery Ana is Sherlock Holmes-esque in that she holds many of the answers to the mysteries that abound--but

Eowyn Ivey is masterful at intertwining fantastical elements with the grounding of the vivid details of the World explores desperate survival, indigenous peoples' connection to the natural world, and mysterious When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well

This month my favorite reads were a historical-fiction fantasy set during the Spanish Inquisition; an adventure-fantasy inspired by a Chinese legend; literary fiction tracing life in a British boarding school and beyond; a Norse-inspired fantasy saga; a fun young adult, queer, medieval adventure romance I love a mix of historical fiction and fantasy, and while this novel isn't as layered and complex or Inside, the mysterious Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul prescribes medicine to those looking for support

Here are just six of my favorite reads--some of which cross genres into mystery, science fiction (time travel), fantasy (legends) and literary fiction. The mystery of the book centers around a post-war haven for soldiers mentally and physically harmed by But the mystery takes a back seat in the book to Maisie's explorations of human motivations, her interest Check out this Greedy Reading List for Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You .

and I'm listening to Ilona Andrews's novel about a superfan who wakes up in the world of her favorite fantasy Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1) by Ilona Andrews Maggie has long leaned on rereading her favorite fantasy

Blanchet's young adult fantasy Neath Trilogy--and her debut novel--to be published next week. When Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery summarize so far, but in this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel, as well as mysteries almost identical personal experience, and a detective from the future's Night City, who investigates the mysterious Then he receives a mysterious note: "Still looking for your friend? I know where she is."

Despite some implausible details, the Atlanta-set mystery is a fast-paced read. Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, it seemed like Morris offers some revenge-fantasy satisfaction, but there are some grave casualties in the world of our main protagonist in this Atlanta-set mystery.

unplanned pregnancy; the real story of a beloved figure from stage, film, and song; a missing-person mystery ; and a fantasy story within a story. in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her sister's favorite fantasy Sarah Rees Brennan is also the author of the fantastic character-driven young-adult fantasy In Other

colonizers expect Anequs to either adhere to their strict customs and expectations--all of which are a mystery One of my criticisms of the currently popular romantic fantasy Fourth Wing is that I wanted more more

The fantasy-science-fiction novel Moonbound spans time and splits into several stories, for me never In Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and

01 Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik is the author of fantasy novels featuring battles within the books' alternate history, and the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic Colm Toibin is also the author of The Master , The Magician , and other novels. 03 Trespasses by Louise