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Dec 9, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Sharon Short |Jess Armstrong |Doreen Sheridan |Celeste Connally
The mystery genre comes with an intrinsic promise of twists, turns, mayhem—a literary roller coaster ride! Anyone can show up at any time. Anything can happen. But what if all the characters in a mystery or suspense novel are confined to one specific place? Unable to leave to find help or gather information… and no hope of anyone coming with help or resources.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Doreen Sheridan |Celeste Connally
One of the most difficult aspects of writing historical mysteries as an ex-historian, is that between the drafting, the research for the book itself, and the revision process, I run out of time to read for fun. In the years before I became a published author, I was a voracious reader—inhaling books indiscriminately: fiction and non-fiction alike.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Celeste Connally
When I began my research for All’s Fair in Love and Treachery, the second book in my Lady Petra Inquires series, I already had two mysteries teed up for my plot. Both had been created in the epilogue of my first book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Celeste Connally |Crime HQ |Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb
It goes without saying that there are many fictional female detectives I’ve read and wished that, one, I could walk in her shoes—or just be her sidekick—and, two, that have inspired me in writing my own female sleuths. Miss Marple is at the top, naturally. Nancy Drew, a close second. And Agatha Christie’s other lady detective, Tuppence Beresford, is a personal favorite. And I could name many, many more, especially from more recent times.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Celeste Connally
With Trouble in Queenstown, Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful mystery that blends grief, class, race, and family with thrilling results. Enjoy an excerpt of Trouble in Queenstown below! Chapter OneI was horny. After a week-long dry spell, the itch was nagging again. A pesky throb teasing my gut. I knew just where to go for a scratch.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Celeste Connally
Eilidh Beaton's performance is stellar. With panache she takes on the roles of strong-willed aristocratic ladies; stuffy, self-important lords; and capable staff. Self-proclaimed spinster and freethinker Lady Petra becomes concerned when she learns her highborn women friends are disappearing into asylums--or dying. The men are unperturbed. Beaton's spellbinding narration is most disturbing when Lady Petra falls into the clutches of the smarmy, smooth-talking doctor who runs the asylum.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Celeste Connally
Enjoy this excerpt of Broadcast Blues by R.G. Belsky (On Sale January 2), the newest book in the Clare Carlson Mystery series, perfect for readers of Sue Grafton or J.D. Robb. From the Diary of Wendy Kyle…. If you’re reading this, I’m already dead. How’s that for an attention-grabbing opening line? I know, I know…it’s a bit melodramatic. And I’m not normally the melodramatic type. Really.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Celeste Connally
In this absolutely charming Regency mystery, Celeste Connally brings an unlikely hero into our midst. Lady Petra Forsyth is an independent woman of means who is determined not to let her existence be controlled by society's demands. While at her level of upper-class English nobility, women are expected to marry quickly, bear heirs and keep their opinions to themselves, Petra refuses to comply.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
newinbooks.com | Jesse Q Sutanto |Sarah James |Celeste Connally |Erika Johansen
Biography & MemoirBusinessLiterary FictionRomanceFantasy & Science FictionMysteryThrillerYoung Adult
The Buzziest Books of November | 2023November is a month of excitement for book lovers, as it has brought and continues to bring us a plethora of captivating new releases.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Janet Webb |Doreen Sheridan |Celeste Connally
Royal fans are counting the days until season six of The Crown streams across our devices. As I posited in an essay about peccadilloes and mysteries in the royal sphere, the British royal family is the gift that keeps on giving. Who doesn’t enjoy a peek behind the scenes with “might it be true” mysteries.
