The Woman in Red

The Woman in Red is the 12th in the McCabe & Cody mystery series — 14th if you count the two volumes of short stories — but it’s the one I jumped ahead to because of its premise. As you might gather from the cover, the murder case involves a comic artist. I’ve read the first two or three of the books, enough to recognize the characters, but it’s a big help that author Dan Andriacco makes sure to introduce [...]
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Death at the Dress Rehearsal

Perhaps this premise is only of interest to a limited audience, but I loved it. Stuart Douglas’ Death at the Dress Rehearsal, billed as “the first Lowe and Le Breton mystery”*, takes place while two older actors are on location filming a terrible British sitcom in the 70s. Edward Lowe is fussy, pretentious and self-absorbed, convinced his acting skills are wasted on low-brow TV. He doesn’t admit it, but he’s also lonely, not sure how to make friends. John Le [...]
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Jill Thompson’s Scary Godmother Reprinted

Jill Thompson’s Scary Godmother series has a long and checkered past, but it’s a wonderful read, particularly for spooky season fans of all ages. Originally released as alternating color hardcovers (much like children’s books) and black-and-white comics by Sirius Entertainment from 1997-2004, the series stars a witchy guardian who lives on the Fright Side, in a world of monsters. She comes to help little Hannah Marie learn to enjoy Halloween, at first, and then there are all kinds of adventures [...]
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A Study in Garnet: Ladies of Baker Street

There are thousands of Sherlock Holmes pastiches (by which I mean stories by other authors set in the same time period as Arthur Conan Doyle’s originals). There are many fewer, only a handful, that explore the question of how work as a consulting detective or a doctor would be different if Sherlock Holmes and John Watson were woman in the Victorian era. Yet that’s a fascinating way, given good research by the writer, to explore both historical sexism and what [...]
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Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries

I found the most charming book when I was in Minnesota for a Sherlockian gathering. Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries is a set of five stories by William Kotzwinkle about a very Holmesian detective … who is a praying mantis. He lives with his friend and assistant, Doctor Hopper, and they solve crimes in tales “profusely illustrated by Joe Servello”. It was those illustrations that sold me on the book. It was such a pleasure to [...]
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A Case for Christmas

If you like Regency romances but think more of the men need to be coupled up, this is the series for you. And if you like misanthropic detectives who fall in love, fighting it all the way, with their newly made best friend, this is the book for you.
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Curlfriends: New in Town

Charlie is used to moving around the world, but her dad has retired from the military back to his hometown. She’s worried about making new friends, but she’s got a plan to fit in at her new middle school. She’s hiding her geeky love of comics, getting contacts, and copying outfits out of magazines, and maybe she’ll finally be popular. In Curlfriends: New in Town, by Sharee Miller, things don’t go as she expects, but what could have been a [...]
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