May 2026

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History - Tori Teller ****

Crimes of Passion: A True Crime Anthology of Murder, Myster, Suspense & Thriller Stories - K.S. Toledo ***

Worth More Dead and Other True Stories - Ann Rule ******

The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts - John Glatt * This is a horribly one-sided victim blaming diatribe.

The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow **

Gut - Giulia Enders *****

April 2026

Blood Echoes - Thomas H. Cook ***

Anno Dracula - Kim Newman ***

Good Calories, Bad Calories - Gary Taub ****

America’s Secret Aristocracy - Stephen Birmingham ****

Early Graves - Thomas H. Cook ***

Forever and Five Days - Lowell Cauffiel ****

The Lost Queen - Anne Stott *****

A Rose for Her Grave - Ann Rule *****

You Belong to Me - Ann Rule ****

In the Name of Love - Ann Rule ****

Everything She Ever Wanted - Ann Rule ****

A Fever in the Heart - Ann Rule ****

If You Really Love Me - Ann Rule **** (I know, I know. But I’ll run out of Ann Rule books eventually - maybe :)

The End of the Dream - Ann Rule *****

March 2026

The Murders of Martha Wise - Rod Kackley ***

From Cottage to Palace - Margaret Bramford ***

Sisters in Death - Eli Frankel ****

We Thought We Knew You - M. William Phelps *****

Beyond Obsession - Richard Hammer ****

Servants’ Stories - Michelle Higgs ***

Relic - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child *****

Cruel Death - M. William Phelps ****

Executed! - Book 1 - Matthew Kell Taylor - **

American Regional Cookery - Sheila Hibben *****

Killing Time in the Catskills - Kevin Owen ****

Holy Disruptor - Amy Duggar King *

February 2026

The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel ****

Weightless - Rocio Salas-Whalen *****

Last Night at the Viper Room - Gavin Edward ***

Enough - Ania M. Jastreboff and Oprah Winfrey *****

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich - Norman Ohler *****

A Visitor’s Guide to Georgian England - Monica Hall *

Mary Queen of Scots - John Guy ** - Sooo Loooong

Scarcity Brain - Michael Easter *****

Anna of Kleve, the Princess in the Portrait - Alison Weir ****

Pendergast - Preston & Child *****

If Walls Could Talk - Lucy Worsley *****

January 2025

Henry VIII’s True Daughter:Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life - Wendy J Dunn ***

Cults:The Shocking True Stories of Heaven’s Gate, the Mason Family, Jim Jones, the Branch Davidians, and More Deathly Cases - Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar ***

George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier & Diplomat - Clare Cherry & Claire Ridgway *****

Bizarre - Marc Dingman *****

Normal Women - Philippa Gregory *****

Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins *****

The King’s Painter:The Life of Hans Holbein - Franny Moyle *****

Royal Affairs - Leslie Carroll **

The Waiting Game - Nicola Clark *****

A Square Meal:A Culinary History of the Great Depression - Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe *****

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel *****

Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel *****

Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life - Ezekiel J. Emanuel ****

Catherine de Medici - Leonie Frieda ****

Jane Seymour - Alison Weir ****

The Woodville Women - Sarah Hodder **