Books High and Low

  Dispatches from the couch is about the author’s three-year odyssey in therapy to address her issues resulting from sexual abuse when sh...

  I didn't care much for this book the second time around (I read it before back in 2014). The main character, Cady, is a member of a we...

Murder in the dollhouse is a true crime non-fiction book about the disappearance of a wealthy socialite from Connecticut. Jennifer Dulos gr...

  This is the second in a series of mysteries set in 2nd century Britain. Libertus is a formerly enslaved man who works as a mosaic artist. ...

Peter May's  The Lewis Trilogy  included three novels set on the Isle of Lewis, the northernmost island in the Outer Hebrides, islands o...

This is a Hercule Poirot mystery that is framed in three acts: Suspicion, Certainty, and Discovery. Poirot doesn't start out as the lead...

The stakes are high for Roman army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso as he heeds a request to go home to Gaul, taking his companion, Tilla, along w...

I really enjoyed this third entry in a trilogy following  The Blackhouse  and The Lewis Man . Fin Macleod has taken a job providing security...

I enjoyed this novel about a bank robber who was foiled during the attempt and takes refuge in a nearby apartment building where an apartmen...

  Recipient of the 2024 Booker Prize,  Orbital  is a short novel about life on the International Space Station in one 24 hour period. Six as...

This is the second mystery in the Lewis trilogy by author Peter May. Fin Macleod has divorced his wife, left the police in Edinburgh, and mo...

This is the first mystery in a trilogy set on the Isle of Lewis, the northernmost island in the Scottish Hebrides. Fin Macleod is a detectiv...

  This is the second book in a series about Roman army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso. In the first book Ruso solved a mystery about the murder ...

  This is the first in a series about Roman Britain, set in 186 CE. Libertus is a freed slave who works as a mosaic artist. He's asked b...

  This is the 15th Agatha Christie novel that I've read this year, and I still continue to enjoy them. This one has a new pair investiga...

I've been reading British history for a few years now, and in preparation for my upcoming trip to London, I thought it would be fun to r...