If you are like me, this is the time of year when you load up on mystery novels. It is an eerie time of year. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are getting shorter quickly and cold weather is moving in fast. And that […]

Of course the first Book Bite of October had to be a mystery. The Botanist’s Guide series has quickly become one of my favourite mystery series, with a strong protagonist, a complex murder (or several), and a fantastic setting. While these are certainly engrossing mysteries, they […]

Every year, there are two or three books that I cannot stop thinking about. I recommend them to everyone, read them in multiple formats, and genuinely obsess about them. And given that by the time of publishing I’ve read 102 103 books thus far in […]

‘Tis the season for darker and more mysterious books, and this one delivers. I am not really a fan of truly spooky or scary things, but I do love a good mysterious adventure. So, when I spotted this book on NetGalley, I knew that I […]

Welcome back to An Historian About Town after my Summer 2023 hiatus! I hope that you have been having a wonderful summer. I have been doing more than my fair share of reading this last past month, including a lot of mysteries. (2023 is the […]