Lark Writes...on books and life

"Alice was a magician, albeit one who did not know very much about her own magic. She was escaping a City that hated and feared Magici...

The Gaslight series by Victoria Thompson is one of my favorite mystery series, mostly because of the two main characters--Sarah Brandt, a yo...

So many good books; so little time to review them all. Here are the first lines of five books that I really enjoyed....see if any of them st...

The Entree: "Swapping propriety for adventure, Herringford and Watts are more preoccupied in their current investigations than in...

This mystery by Shelley Freydont takes place in 1895 among the extravagant mansions of Newport, Rhode Island's elite. It is Deanna Ra...

It's a door! It's a bookcase! It's a hidden door with a bookcase! How cool is that? I totally want one of t...

The O shelf is crowded with books by Oates and O'Brien, Oke and Orwell. But hiding in their midst is a slender, unassuming novel by Matt...