Marj's Mysteries

The books read so far for my reading challenges for 2024. Reading by the Numbers Challenge--Goal 12 books  GoodReads Reading Challenge--Goal...

Phoebe Atwood Taylor was an American mystery author in the 1930s through the early 1950s, who wrote several different mystery series under...

  Setting: Connecticut Lindsey Norris, library director, is thrilled to find out her library will be getting a local family's large and ...

Well, the title of this blog is a little off, as I only finished one book during this two week period.  I'm more than half finished with...

Setting: South Carolina This is the eighteenth book in the Death in Demand series.  I've read several others, and have enjoyed them.   M...

Setting: Minnesota While this is the fourth book in this series, it is the first one I've read.  It was an "okay" read, but I ...

Setting: Cape Cod, Massachusetts I enjoyed this book.  The characters were interesting, and the plot was pretty good. Lily is a pastry chef,...

2024 Challenges Goodreads-- 1. Blotto,Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen by Simon Brett 2. Archie Goes Home by Robert Goldsborough 3...

I've read several of the Blotto and Twinks books, and enjoyed them all.  The main characters are exaggerations of stereotypes of the Eng...

Setting: Ohio   Archie Goodman, assistant to Nero Wolfe, is subtly nudged by his Aunt Edna to return home to Ohio, to visit his mother, alth...

 Back to posting after quite a while. I've decided to sign up for a few challenges again, just a few, to start this year's blog. The...

  I meant to sign up for this in January, but I'm not sure I did, so signed up today.  I've already read several books over the past...

 So far this year I've only signed up for one challenge.  Last year I started off well with several challenges, but life got busy, and I...

Published in 1964, this is the first book by Joyce Porter that I've read.  I'm not sure what I was expecting.   The Dover referred t...

I started this book thinking it would be an amusing read, based on the title. Instead, it is about a 70 year old woman, Josephine Bartlett,...