It is another rousing adventure w/ Georgiana discovering murders and whatnot. This time she is in Transylvania, home of the vampires and around every corner she is expecting to see a vamp lurking. This book is pretty fast paced w/ her crazy maid, the castle of horrors, and fears of vamps. I th...
I'm really enjoying this series and the audiobook narrator is very good. They are simple stories, not even Agatha Christie, but I enjoy this type of story more the older I get. The heroine is young, penniless, and a royal. She's not afraid to step out of her comfort zone and look for answers with...
Enjoyable and a bit more suspenseful than I had anticipated. I love this series and it's characters. They feel like friends I visit every time I read them!
Yet another solid entry to the Molly Murphy series. It is visibly not as good as the previous one. I'm beginning to wonder if any book in this series will get the elusive 5 stars that I reserve for outstanding books. The trouble with this book's story is that there are no real twists but rather w...
Sometimes I underestimate the tightrope that authors of historical fiction have to tread. So many expressions that are off limits. I was made aware of this when Molly Murphy made use of the word 'shock', meaning 'culture shock'. Yet that expression wasn't part of the vernacular in 1903. The autho...
I hadn't read any Molly Murphy books for years, so perhaps my tastes have changed, because I found Daniel to be annoyingly self righteous. I kept wondering why Molly would want to marry him if he wanted her to quit investigating and she worried so much about angering him. I admit I read the first...
I love anything by Rhys Bowen. This one rates top of the tops. (Actually, I read #12 before this, thinking it came after #10.) In this volume, Molly is a newly-wed on a delayed honeymoon. There's a nicely convoluted, historically accurate plot, a cast of characters that include many suspects, and...
While Molly's spunk has not lessened her resolve to be independent has. Clearly she is pregnant in this book so maybe that is why she is more cautious and allows herself to be treated like a china doll, but it does not suit. The case was fine in terms of being able to figure it out as written, ...
The Amersham Rubies started off pretty interesting. I was drawn in and my curiosity was piqued. Unfortunately, the conflict wasn't resolved in a realistic fashion and I found the resolution too abrupt. This is another one that is meant to draw the reader into the series and not necessarily thi...
Rhys Bowen is a dab hand at presenting a historical setting with verisimilitude and a liveliness that generally gets along well with modern sensibilities. I don't have to say that is hard to do and hard to find. This book in particular, thanks to bringing in progressive politics of the time, is o...
A mutual and passionate encounter with Danile one night, sadly, did no improvement on Molly's opinions about Daniel. She, in fact, was utterly dissappointed by him and determined to have nothing more to do with that despicable, cowardice creature. Thus, she cut short all contact from him. All let...
Fresh out of Riley's closed case, Daniel expected to see Molly intimidated by all the dangers she had experienced. Like he said, her nine cat lives were rapidly being used up. Molly, notwithstanding, still determined to continue on this line of work.Tired of all the ludicrous divorce cases, Molly...
This time this book was recommended to me by my Mom - who received the entire collection from a friend. This is a typical British Cozy-style mystery. Or, to be precise, a Welsh cozy set in Northern Wales in a small village at the foot of Mount Snowdon. Evan Evans is the local police constable, wh...
If I had not read five previous books in this Constable Evans cozy mystery, I would not have stuck with it. It was slow to get going and at times poorly edited. Ms Bowen telegraphs her punches here, and there was little suspense. However, I am glad I made it to the end.This book helped me clarify...
Fifth in the Constable Evans mystery series set in Wales revolving around the undecided Constable Evan Evans.The StoryA small film crew has descended upon Llanfair to produce a documentary about raising an old World War II German fighter plane from the depths of Llyn Llydaw. Exciting for the vill...
Eighth in the Constable Evans mystery series set in Wales and revolving around a bright young policeman lacking the time to hike as much as he was used to. My Take I do so enjoy this series. Bowen has created a small cast of colorful characters whose lives move forward and every once in awhile, t...
Fourth in the Constable Evans mystery series set in a small village in Wales.The StoryOne arson fire after another has Evans frustrated especially when Peter Potter---oops, sorry, that's Sergeant Potter to you!---is on the case. Potter'll show these backcountry idjits how to solve crime. If they ...
The second in the Constable Evans Welsh mystery series, Evan Help Us has a 1950-ish feel to it with a whole crew of fun characters whom you can't help but enjoy including the Detective Inspector who is more concerned with his fishing than the truth (he does remind me of Racer from the Inspector J...
Third in the Constable Evans mystery series set in Wales, Llanfair is privileged to have a former son return, a world-famous opera singer, Ifor Llewelyn, who rents the Powell-Jones house for the summer. Mrs Powell-Jones is over the moon as she can kill two birds with one stone: take care of mummy...