Lily comes out of retirement to run one last op while on the run from her former employers in U.S. intelligence, and to reexamine her legacy as a field agent and as an American in foreign lands. Throughout her career she was known as frequently impulsive and even insubordinate, but also an effective and loyal […]
I started reading Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series because my mom was a fan. I particularly remember when she read Tunnel Vision (1994) and was fascinated with the lower bowels of Chicago, a network of utility and freight tunnels beneath the Loop. I have her copy of the short story collection Windy City Blues (1995), […]
Here is something I had nothing to do with, and only found because of the name, but I really like! Mel Morgan has written a mystery series featuring Jess Braun, a recently divorced woman who has returned to the small Minnesota town where her grandmother and eccentric aunt lived and opened a thrift shop. Her […]
This year I read 63 murder mysteries, including selections from the following series and a few standalone: Another 10 books I read this year that are not murder mysteries: See My Year in Books for links. A few books I started and liked but did not finish yet: Update 1/4/2026: While murder is all fine […]