My Current Interest

Image provided by Sourcebooks.                  I stayed up far too late reading this book.   Found on the Bas Bleu website, at one point I reached a lull in the story where all I wanted was for something to finally happen.   Then all of a sudden, the story changed and all I wanted was to see what was going to happen next.                 Kate Warne is a widow looking to become the very first female agent of the Pinkerton Agency.   Answering a newspaper ad, Kate is not at all what Allan Pinkerton was expecting to walk through his door.   His instinct is to turn Kate away, but Kate won’t have that.   Instead, she convinces Pinkerton to give her a chance.   She takes on a case to prove she can get results.   That she does, and Pinkerton is impressed, despite another agent, Tim Bellamy, tryin...

             When I first watched season four of The Doctor Blake Mysteries , I really didn’t think I would be writing about it.   The storylines felt rushed and scattered.   One of the main characters was missing for half the season.   Other characters left and ones I’m not so sure about came in.   The overdone ploy of a spouse long-thought to be dead turning up alive was used.   Plus, once again, two people who should be together ended up separated.   All in all, I was not happy with season four.                       With all that said, you are probably wondering why I am writing about season four of The Doctor Blake Mysteries .   That credit needs to go to my local PBS stations.   For awhile PBS had two different seasons of The Doctor Blake Mysteries airing on two different station...

               Usually I suck up every word of the Meg Langslow Mystery books pretty much the moment I get them.   With Gone Gull I had a bit of a hard time getting into the story.   I blame that on tennis , though.   Because the moment I put it on mute, I did not want to put this book down.                       Blacksmith Meg Langslow is helping her grandmother, Cordelia, run an arts and crafts center she has just opened.   Teaching one of the classes herself, Meg has convinced other artists she knows to become teachers as well.   Members of her extensive family are also on site, helping out in various capacities, as they always do.                 Despite the close connection of many of those working at the ...

Image provided by Sourcebooks.               I was only going to order a catalog, but as I looked at the home page of the Bas Bleu website, a couple of their featured books caught my eye.   One of those books was A Deadly Affection .   It took a couple of passes for me to actually see what the book was as the images kept flipping, but the cover was intriguing, so I kept trying.   Once I was able to figure out the book I was trying to catch, I reserved it from the library and found a whole new series to be excited about.                    It’s 1907, and Dr. Genevieve Summerford is thrilled to start her career as a psychiatrist.   Getting her degree was not an easy feat as she is a woman in a time when women are not supposed to be doctors.   With so many people doubting her abilities simply because of h...

               This series just keeps getting better.   Thanks to a very warm day, I was able to read this book in probably under twenty-four hours.   All I wanted to do that day was read.   Then, the more I read, the more all I wanted to do was read.   It’s nice to know that far too warm days are good for something.                 Kathleen Paulson has a really great talent for finding bodies.   This time she finds two (three, if you count the not-so dead rat).   First is a body from long ago.   She finds it when the ground breaks away beneath her because of the excessive rain her town has been having.   Despite the amount of time the body has been buried, it is quickly identified by the ring it is wearing.   The ring belonged to the father of one of Kathleen’s friends, Roma.   He is a...

                  As I stated in my post about Mercy Street , Home Fires is another show gone too soon.   With only two seasons to its name, I’m not sure why this show was cancelled.   There was so much more that could have happened had it been allowed to go on.                 It’s the start of World War II and the local Women’s Institute (WI) has disbanded to a degree.   Joyce Cameron (Francesca Annis), the domineering president, has been overthrown.   Now, to get back at the WI, Joyce is going to do everything she can to hinder whatever the remaining members set out to do.   In all honesty, the conflict between Joyce and the WI is really a bunch of petty squabbles.   It just goes to show, that even in times of war, petty squabbles don’t cease to exist.       ...

              Apparently, I was wrong when I wrote about the last book in the Magical Bakery Mystery series.   I thought things in Katie’s romantic life were only going in a certain direction and were still somewhat up in the air.   Then I started reading Charms and Chocolate Chips and I found out Katie’s romantic life is actually pretty settled.   At least it is for awhile.                 Katie Lightfoot seems to be hiding from something.   She spends all of her time either at the bakery or volunteering at a local conservation group, Georgia Wild.   This leaves her very little time to spend with her boyfriend, Declan, or deal with the revelation that she is a lightwitch, something neither she, nor anyone else, truly understands.               ...