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Nov 20, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Ritu Mukerji
Janice Hallett’s latest witty, effervescent murder mystery brings us back to the world of the Fairway Players in all their dysfunctional glory, two years after the events chronicled in her excellent novel The Appeal.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Ritu Mukerji
Charlie Hudson has worked hard her whole life not only to get by, but to live up to her mother’s high-flying aspirations for her. It’s not easy growing up in a small town like Sawyer, Pennsylvania. Sawyer’s particular mix of unyielding social prejudices makes life difficult not only for a teenage mom having a baby out of wedlock – like Charlie’s mom once was – but also for anyone struggling to make a better life for themselves.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Celeste Connally |Ritu Mukerji |Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb
Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, a dazzling first entry in a captivating new Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin from Celeste Connally.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Ritu Mukerji
Madeline Martin has worked hard to build a good life for herself in her small rural town. As owner of The Next Chapter Bookstore, she’s capitalized on social media to help keep her store turning a profit. Never mind if that means little time for a social life. She has her best friend Badger and, since her dad’s stroke some months back, the virtually round the clock support of family friend Miranda. So what if they and her two high-school-aged employees are pretty much her only friends?
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Ritu Mukerji
This sumptuous new cookbook was inspired by Martin Walker’s bestselling Bruno, Chief of Police mystery series.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
criminalelement.com | Ritu Mukerji |Doreen Sheridan
Being a female doctor in late 1800s Philadelphia is not for the faint of heart, but Dr Lydia Weston finds fulfillment, if not outright courage, in doing this very necessary work. As a professor and anatomist, she spends almost as much time teaching as she does tending to the sick. She takes quiet satisfaction not only in her ability to help the ill, but also in ensuring that other women are taught well in how to do the same.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Ritu Mukerji
The CrimeReads editors select their favorite debut novels this month. *Raul Palma, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens(Dutton)Palma’s debut is a sparkling gem of a novel, a world-weary portrait of cynicism and despair upended and upended again. A recent widower in Miami with an indefatigable debt collector on his trail gets a bizarre offer from his antagonist: cleanse his house of unwanted spirits, and the debt will be forgiven.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Ritu Mukerji
Transport yourself to a different time and place with historical fiction. A lawyer in 1920s Bombay. A computer hacker/tech investigator in 1990s …
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Ritu Mukerji
A lawyer in 1920s Bombay. A computer hacker/tech investigator in 1990s Paris. A deputy sheriff in 1914 New Jersey. What unites these characters, separated by time and diverse locales? Each one is an independent, unconventional woman in the role of investigator. I have been an avid reader of crime fiction for as long as I can remember, always drawn to series with a strong woman detective. Historical mysteries are particularly appealing to me, a chance to be immersed in a different time and place.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Ritu Mukerji
“Work where the work opens.”This was a favored phrase of Dr. Ann Preston, a physician and professor at one of the first medical schools for women, and one she often told her students. I was doing research for my novel, a medical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. I would often be moved by an old photograph, a painting, or a fragment of a diary entry.
