Death In the Stacks

With the dog days of summer fast approaching, here is a selection of new mysteries to check out:

"It was the egret, flying out of the lemon grove, that started it." --opening line from Mary Stewart's 1962 classic, The Moon-Spinners

Jan Burke has just released her 10th Irene Kelly mystery, Disturbance, and the consensus among those who have already read it is -- you can't put it down. From what I've read so far, there is much that's disturbing in this thriller.

The New York Times reports that a late addition to the Masterpiece Mystery lineup is Case Histories based on the book by Kate Atkinson.

How lovely! So many Sherlock Holmes adaptations to anticipate. BBC's Sherlock, which was such a hit on PBS last fall, is currently filming Season 2. The episodes will be based on "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Hound of the Baskerville," and "The Final Problem." Season 2 of Sherlock should air in the UK next month, but those of us on the other side of the pond will have to wait a bit longer.