Belle, Book, and Candle

Things have slowed down a bit here in BelleBookandCandle land. I have just barely started two books, both by authors I have not read befo...

When I tell you that Hubert Schuze is a pot thief you might think that he goes around stealing marijuana plants. You would be wrong. Mr...

I have spent the past week fighting tiny ants in my kitchen. All of a sudden there was one, then two, then a swarm. (To me, any gathering of...

Tonight begins a six-week course at my public library entitled Murder Mystery History: An Examination of the Whodunnit Genre. It is free ...

British author Ann Bridge (1889-1974) wrote a passel of novels based on her travels around the world. She also wrote a series of enterta...

Bridge can be deadly! Today I sampled two of the tales in the 2012 Best American Mysteries introduced by Robert Crais. The first one, ...

Until I read a piece by Michael Dirda praising Georgette Heyer for her wit and charm in his book Classics for Pleasure, I would have snobb...

Now this is a great book title. About halfway through the story, the author Colin Cotterill, explains where the odd phrase comes from. Hi...

I don't do well with numbers. It turns out that instead of having read 44 books in 2011, in putting together this little recap, I find I...