C. P. Lesley, Novelist

Author interview with Amie McNee, whose latest Tudor historical mystery will soon come out with Crooked Lane Books

Contemporary mystery series I love, by Ann Claire, Krista Davis, Uzma Jalaluddin, Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare, and Claudia H. Long

Historical mysteries I love, featuring series by Colleen Cambridge, Irina Shapiro, Catherine Lloyd, C.M. Rawlins, and Clara McKenna

Fall 2025 Bookshelf featuring new novels by S.J. Bennett, Mimi Matthews, Mirta Ojito, Andrea Penrose, and Katie Tietjen

Author interview with Liana De la Rosa, whose latest historical romance, Gabriela and His Grace, has just come out from Berkley Romance

Novels on my bookshelf, Summer 2025, historical fiction by Rachel Louise Driscoll, Kathleen Kaufman, Kate Khavari, Laurie R. King, Sarah Landenwich, and David Lewis

A look at Alison Weir's latest historical novel, set in Tudor England and featuring Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

Interview with the historical novelist Elise Hooper, whose The Library of Lost Dollhouses, has just come out with William Morrow

My Spring 2025 bookshelf, with historical fiction by Alka Joshi, Joanna Lowell, Mimi Matthews, Joanna Miller, Kathleen Renk, and Karen Swan

Novels on my bookshelf, Winter 2025, by Su Chang, Elyse Durham, Lora Jones, Kate Maruyama, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Jane Yang

A sneak peek at author interviews planned for January 2025, with Fiona Davis, Joseph Finder, Poppy Kuroki, and Kate Mosse

More buried treasure from my Kindle library, here books by Erika Monahan, Marlowe Benn, Jessie Burton, and Debra Dean

Buried treasure in books, unearthed from the depths of my Kindle library, here by Jane Johnson, Paullina Simons, and Xinru Liu.

A glimpse into the history of wild silk and its possible relevance to my forthcoming novel, Song of the Silk Weaver

Fall 2024 Bookshelf: Suzanne Allain, Monica Chenault-Kilgore, Christina Dodd, Vanessa Kelly, Mimi Matthews, Alyson Richman, and Elif Shafak

Novels on my bookshelf for the summer of 2024, by Lianne Dillsworth, Michelle Moran, Andrea Penrose, Heather Redmond, and Andrew Varga

Interview with author Audrey Burges about her latest novel, A House Like an Accordion

Interview with Harper St. George, about her latest historical novel, The Stranger I Wed.

List of novels on my bookshelf for Spring 2024, by Audrey Burges, Eve J. Chung, Judith Lindbergh, Ruth Reichl, and Shaina Steinberg

New Books Network interview with Robin Oliveira about her latest novel, set in late 19th-century Scotland and Washington Territory