Monthly Archives: August 2011

“Honey, dinner’s ready”, Nina shouts up the stairs.  When her husband doesn’t appear she goes upstairs where he’s gone to lie down after a long day teaching mathematics at a local university.  She finds him dead.  After the next door … Continue reading →

Where are we?   Oddly, though Blaedel is Danish, this story could as easily been set in any American city rather than Copenhagen.  The place names were Danish but there was no wisp of Scandinavia.  The plot was so so … Continue reading →

  Heartwarming and inspiring. Elinore, a young widow, decides to abandon her domestic job in Colorado to head to Montana with the dream of claiming her own piece of land. The year is 1909 and few women, or for that … Continue reading →

Who is he really?   What’s in the Scandinavian Water?  There are so many good mysteries appearing by Scandinavian writers recently.  Why are they just now being translated into English?  I don’t think I’ve run into a better detective duo … Continue reading →

Truth or Legend?   “The House at Sea’s End” is another fun Griffiths’ mystery. Archeologist professor and sometime police adviser Ruth Galloway is in the throes of new motherhood as she turns 40. She’s feeling happy but a bit freaked … Continue reading →

Higher Learning Meets Street Smarts   I loved the atmosphere in this book.  It was set in Norwich which is on the central eastern coast of Britain.  There’s a sacred site that was created by Iron Age people which consists … Continue reading →

The Light Pours In “Trick of the Light” is a fascinating story. At it’s center are two relationships, one is a marriage, the other a working relationship. Both are longstanding and have been very productive, loving and supportive. Both are … Continue reading →