Barbara Sjoholm

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea (2004)

Sisters of the Road (2005)

Trouble in Transylvania (1993)

Gaudi Afternoon (2001)

Thus far, I have enjoyed or at least appreciated all the books I've been assigned to read for my detective novel class this semester. Or at least, I did - and then Cassandra Reilly and her associated foolery stomped into my life. In hindsight, I suppose the description on the back of the book sho...

Murder in the Collective (1993)

I'm updating this to five stars. It def has its flaws (it's heavily centred on the white protagonist's political understanding, there is a lack of nuance in some of the perspectives advanced, etc) but I just enjoyed it so thoroughly and it really spoke to me.--At first I had a laugh about how clu...

The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists (2000)