Palm for Mrs. Pollifax

I returned to this book this past week, as one of the best comfort reads I know. When the world is overwhelming, this series has been one of my best refuges, one of my favourite fictional universes to escape into when I have no energy to go anywhere new. (Other comfort reads include L.M. Montgomery,......more

Clever and resourceful, Mrs. Pollifax may have actually saved the world this time! An attempted coup d'etat in a fictional Middle Eastern country, some stolen plutonium, and kidnapped woman and child... all solved in a medical-spa retreat type place in Switzerland.......more

Always a delightful diversion. When I am feeling overwhelmed by my stacks of serious books. Mrs. Polifax is the ideal antidote. Clever and well written this series is never disappointing.......more

I became an earnest Dorothy Gilman fan from the first standalone novel I read. I discovered the quadruple decade-running Mrs. Pollifax afterwards and bought them all brand new, which I am slowly savouring, at a two-year interval apiece. Her fantasy saga, “The Maze In The Heart Of The Castle” is a tr......more