The September Society

Catching up… Here I go again. I was so excited when this one was donated to my Little Free Library Shed. I thought, this looks like an interesting mystery. I perused the first couple of pages as I was checking it out and found myself saying, “hmmm…this looks familiar.” Of course, it does, I read it y......more

I do so love historical fiction and when you add a mystery, I am a relatively contented reader. This second installment in the Charles Lenox mystery series is well written and each of the characters is well developed. The setting is Victorian England, 1866 London and Oxford. What begins as a search......more

This book barely deserves two stars. I'm being generous because I don't think any of the individual criticisms I'm about to dish out are particularly damning on their own, but together... Problems: 1. The plot is unforgivably weak for a mystery, both in the way that it structurally unfolds and in its......more

4 Stars. A great addition to the Charles Lenox series. When a frantic Lady Annabelle visits him late one night in London, desperate for help from our upper-class private investigator to find her son, Lenox can't but say, "Yes," when she asks him to join her on a trip to Oxford. Her husband died in I......more