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Ghastly Glass by Joyce and Jim Lavene.This is the second of the Lavenes' Renaissance Faire Mysteries featuring scholar Jessie Morton, who is writing her doctoral dissertation on Renaissance crafts in modern times. One of her methods of research is apprenticing with various craftspeople at the year-round Renaissance Faire Village and Market Place in Myrtle Beach. This time around she is assigned to glassblower Roger Trent, proprietor of the Glass Gryphon. Unusually for Jessie, this visit occurs during th

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Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris.Charlaine Harris has previously written an 8-book series about librarian Aurora Teagarden and a 5-book series about housekeeper-cum-private detective Lily Bard. Currently, besides the immensely popular Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series, Ms. Harris writes another wonderful paranormal mystery series about Harper Connelly, who is able to find (and, to some extent, "read") dead bodies as a result of having been struck by lightning when a teen.Harper and her step-brother

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Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill.A new Dalziel and Pascoe novel is always a cause of happiness for me. This one did not disappoint.After a severe injury that left him in a coma, Andy Dalziel has decided to return to work sooner than advised. He's sure that everyone will be judging him to see if he's really ready, and thinking that he should just give up and retire. He gets a call from an old colleague, Mick Purdy, asking him to take an unofficial look into the case of a policeman who disappeared seven years earlier.

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The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith.I love the Isabel Dalhousie books! For those who are not familiar with her, Isabel is an Edinburgh-based philosopher (editor of The Review of Applied Ethics) with a toddler named Charlie, whose father is her much-younger paramour Jamie. Isabel also has a reputation for sleuthing, though there are those who call it interfering. Early in this narrative, she runs into an old acquaintance, Minty Auchterlonie, who has a son about the same age as Charlie. Though

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The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny.I was fortunate enough to receive this book through Library Thing's Early Reviewers program. Although it arrived in July, I'm only reviewing it now because I wanted to read the previous books in the series (I'm anal that way), and I'm glad I did, as I was already familiar with the residents of Three Pines and the members of Inspector Gamache's investigative team.This, the fifth book in the Armand Gamache/Three Pines series, begins with Olivier