C. P. Lesley, Novelist

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Inventory of everything I have been doing to clear the decks, much of it associated with writing, so that I can return to my current novel

The latest Uhtred book by Bernard Cornwell: a study of daily life in Saxon England, with recipes

Holiday roundup of 2023 books by Rhys Bowen, Bernard Cornwell, Clara McKenna, Erica Neubauer, Anne Perry and Karen Swan

List of novels on my Fall 2023 Bookshelf, all recent historical fiction or historical mystery, set in the 19th and 20th centuries

Interview with Kerri Maher about her latest novel, All You Have to Do Is Call

Books I have read that are due out in the summer of 2023, as well as those on my bookshelf for reading before September.