I am reading Cat With a Clue by Laurie Cass. I like this series with Minnie, her cat Eddie and of course the bookmobile. :)

I am waiting for a book I requested that has three novels by Dorothy B Hughes. 2 of the novels are considered her best. I looking forward to getting this.

Ride the Pink Horse is one and In a lonely Place is the other.

I am here just not reading a mystery yet this month, Reading Casual Curses and Meticulous Magic by Lee Roland.

I finished reading Death in the Stacks by Jenn McKinlay. So glad that she finished up the love triangle with the MC. I was ready to quit the series cause I was tired of it. The characters from her Cupcake bakery series and her series set in London with the hat makers made appearances in this book. That was pretty fun.

I enjoyed 'Death in the Stacks' too, Cynthia.  I agree about the love triangle being settled.  The worst of these things is of course JoAnne Fluke's 'Hannah Swenson' series.  In my opinion, if you have a good mystery going, having these love triangle things only serves to irritate me.  Why can't the MC be married and still solve the crimes?   Anyway, that's my thought on that. 

I finished  'Final Vow' by Amanda Flower, which was very good.  I hope she is going to continue this series, the background of a living history museum is really unique.  And the mystery was good.  I was very surprised who done it ~ didn't see that coming at all.

I'm now reading 'The Case of the Golddigger's Purse' by Erle Stanley Gardner.  I'm really enjoying this read one new mystery then read one of Gardner's, etc.  Makes my stack of Wish List books last a lot longer!   :)     And as I said before, it's been so long since I read the Perry Mason series, that with the exception of remembering something in part of a book, but not the criminal him/herself it's like reading them all over again. 

Joy --- I have never read any of the Erle Stanley Gardner "Perry Mason" books.  That is something I might enjoy --- of course, as a kid we always watched the Perry Mason series on television.

I read an historical book recently that some of you might enjoy, "The Secrets of Nanreath Hall" by Alix Rickloff.  It was not mysterous specifically, as in a whodunit.  It was set with time periods WWI and WWII.  With daughter in WWII seeking information about her deceased mother during WWI.  It was well done.

The Far side of the Dollar by Ross MacDonald. Great read. This is a really well done plot and interesting characters. and quite a few characters at that. This is one of those books that is in the mystery genre but is a great novel no matter the genre.

I started reading Cold Betrayal by J.A. Jance last night. The book is in her Ali Reynolds series. There are two separate plots lines in alternate chapters. In one a 16-year-old girl in a remote area of Arizona has been brought up in a polygamous cult. She is now pregnant and wants her baby to be born outside the Encampment. In the other an elderly woman in Minnesota is wakened by her dog that smells gas. All the burners on the woman's stove are going full force but not lit. Local law enforcement believes either (a) she lit them herself, fell asleep and doesn't remember, or (b) she's making it up for attention. Sister Anselm, a friend of Ali's, is involved in the first plot, so it's qualifies for The Sound of Music category of the mystery/thriller challenge.

Man of Two Tribes by Arthur W Upfield. Bony triumps again.

Charles --- you are taking a nostalgic trip right now are you not???  Those are great books.

Cold Betrayal turned out pretty good. I gave it 3-1/2 stars. The Minnesota plot with the elderly woman was pretty easy to figure out, although there was a little added twist I hadn't suspected. The Colorado City plot turned out more interesting with a turn I didn't expect. I once drove through Colorado City on my way home to Phoenix from Salt Lake City. Huge barn-like houses lined the street, and the friend I was with, who was born and raised in Arizona, warned me not to stare at anyone. She didn't want to take a chance on us getting stopped.

I don't remember now how I found Upfield but I really enjoy his books. I have read 4 of them so far and I have one more waiting in my bedroom. I read several MacDonald books way back in my younger days but I don't remember them now so they are all new to me again. They are hard to find here. I have a Simenon book in the mail on its way to me. I'm looking forward to it. I am uncertain of what I have read of Simenon's because I did not record what I read as I read the books, and I did not keep the books so I have to rely on a somewhat shakey memory before I request anything. I just today received the book by Dorothy Hughes. I have already begun a non mystery book so I will read that and then try Hughes. I have had some pretty good luck lately. been reading some good stuff.

In the middle of  'Cinnamon Toasted'  by Gail Oust, the third book in her Spice Shop Mystery series.  Not to be confused with Leslie Budiwitz' Spice Shop mysteries. Gail's setting is Georgia, while Leslie's is Seattle Washington.  They are both good, and I am enjoying 'Cinnamon Toasted' a lot.  (How many people remember how to spell cinnamon without having to look it up?  I sure can't.)    The MC's ex-mother-in-law finds a dead body at the bottom of her basement stairs and calls the MC, first, instead of the police.  When told to call 9-1-1 she has to ask what the number for that is.  Cute.

Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon. just started.

Maigret is on vacation in Vichy. a murder happens. There is a lot of profiling of what the killer must be like and this leads to clues that solves the crime. Interesting read.

Just finished another historical --- definitely with a mystery involved, but again not a whodunit.  "The Dollhouse" by Fiona Davis.  A story between 1952 and and 2016 recounting the history of the "Barbizon Hotel for Women".  Really enjoyed it.

I'm enjoying The Red Moth by Sam Eastland, part of his Inspector Pekkala series. Pekalla was the favorite investigator of Tsar Nicholas II, given a "badge" in the form of an enamelled disc inlaid with an emerald. He was feared as the Emerald Eye. Now, however, it's 1941 and he's working as an investigator for Stalin, trying to unravel the mystery of a painting of a red moth that was recovered when a small aircraft carrying a Luftwaffe pilot and an SS officer was shot down near Leningrad. The book moves along quickly with some interesting minor characters.

I'm reading "Every Breath You Take" by Mary Higgins Clark & Alfair Burke, the newest "Under Suspicion" series.  I really just love this series following the production team of a TV show named, Under Suspicion.  They take a cold case and re-open it, trying to solve the murder and, if it happens this way, remove the suspicion of one who was not convicted of the crime, but was that 'person of interest.'  The writing style of these books just keeps your interest with short, snappy chapters.

Joy --- There was a television show on for a few episodes that was very much as you describe the above book.  Wonder if the book was the basis?

Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B Hughes. just started. I think the pink horse of the title refers to a horse on a carousel.

Sort of an unusual plot. A guy shows up in a town and we gradually learn he is there because he has followed another man. We gradually learn that the guy is trying to get money from the guy he is following as a payoff for a murder. A certain amount of tension builds as the two guys negotiate a payoff.

One of the posters on the Historical Fiction forum posted about a book involving Shakespeare, and that reminded me that I had Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith on my TBR. It's a mystery, with two researchers, one of whom wants to prove that Shakespeare wrote his plays, and other who believes it was a nobleman, presumably DeVere. Well written. Good arguments and good story telling!

I am reading Beyond Absolution by Cora Harrison. Great series set in 1925 Ireland. She is one of my favorite historical mystery writers.

Mary fun fact. I actually met Sarah Smith. She did an author's night at my local library years ago and I attended that evening.

Becky ~ This is a fairly new series, so I don't think it was this particular series.  But, it could be, I suppose.  In other words, I have no idea!  :)

"How the Finch Stole Christmas" is my current book.  Written by Donna Andrews and new to her Meg Lanslow series.  There is murder, mayhem, tigers, and of course finches in this fun read.  Love the series. Though there are a couple places when Meg is begnning to get on my nerves......this is a long running series.  At least she has managed to marry early in the series and stayed married, no annoying love triangles in this one!

I started reading Iron Orchid by Stuart Woods last night and, amazingly, I went through more than 200 pages. It keeps moving along. It's part of the Holly Barker series, and she has resigned from the Orchid Beach Police Department after being recruited into the CIA. A former FBI agent who went rogue after retirement murdered some politicians and then supposedly blew himself and his Cessna out of the sky. However, now he's on a new mission, and Holly is part of the team to stop him. Since part of the plot takes place in the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, I'm using the book for the Phantom of the Opera category of the Mystery/Thriller Challenge.

I'm reading Death's Half Acre by Margaret Maron in the Judge Deborah Knott series. I'm getting to know what it feels like to live in a county where there's a whole lot fewer than six degrees of separation. The plot in this one revolves around the rural community that's been in Colleton County forever versus the developers who are buying up farmlands and putting in subdivisions. There's also a local minister who believes wives should be really, really subordinate to their husbands. And what's Deborah's father Kezzie doing with some very expensive earrings? Always enjoy the books in this series.

What Mrs McGillicudy Saw by Agatha Christie  this is also titled The 4:50 from Paddington. A murder happens in the first few pages and we learn the details as the book progresses. Miss Marple is not actively engaged in the action but she has helpers who do the work for her.

This is one of those books that is hard to put down. Nice ending. It was not apparent to me who the murderer was. Some more experienced readers may be able to figure it out. but not me.