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Bergeron Mysteries #21
Your Land is My Land
413 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 14, 2026
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M.G. Lewis
34 books18 followers The Bergeron Mysteries feature one Gabriel Henri Bergeron, crackerjack accountant and all around good egg. Gabe is willing to admit that he's not really a detective as his nearest and dearest and numerous officers of the law have told him over the years. Told him repeatedly.
And some of those same individuals have suggested that he's “nosy, prying, rude” and others have added “meddling and insatiably curious”, but Gabe rejects all those assessments. He believes that he is moderately curious about his fellow human beings. Which is not a flaw.
He just gets drawn into situations trying to help out friends, relatives, and co-workers.
Like his very first case, which he undertook when he was but one and twenty years old. Raúl Gutierrez, who was only fourteen at the time, had been accused of stealing Aunt Flo's big gold Lincoln Continental.
And why did Gabe decide to help Raúl? They weren't friends and not exactly relatives. Raúl was Ezmeralda's nephew, and Ezmeralda was Aunt Flo's boon companion and comrade. So if he thought of Ezmeralda as a sister-in-arms to Aunt Flo, who was actually Gabe's great-aunt, then Raúl was a sort of cousin. Once removed?
In any case, Aunt Flo had taken Gabe in after the death of his mother, and he was determined to find her Lincoln, The police had managed that on their own, but Gabe had solved the case and exonerated Raúl, which had led to the teenage villains being punished. Of course, those same villains would turn up later, but that was another case, another story.
And then he'd done accounting stuff for a few years at Girard-Hartmann Accounting until Eric Girard, one of the partners, had gotten himself and his yacht blown up on Daugherty Creek. Eric had previously fired one Gabe Bergeron from the aforesaid Girard-Hartmann Accounting, and the police had liked Gabe for Eric's murder until they had liked the other partner and Gabe's best friend, Neil Hartmann, better. Gabe had obviously been eager to help his best friend.
And then all sorts of rogues had wanted the Cabrera paintings, which had put Aunt Flo and Ezmeralda into danger.
And he had just sorted that when he'd learned that his mother's death had been a homicide; unsuspected for two decades. Which nobody but Gabe Bergeron was going to investigate.
So Gabe didn't feel that it was weird that he solved crimes. Nope. Not even weird-adjacent.
And some of those same individuals have suggested that he's “nosy, prying, rude” and others have added “meddling and insatiably curious”, but Gabe rejects all those assessments. He believes that he is moderately curious about his fellow human beings. Which is not a flaw.
He just gets drawn into situations trying to help out friends, relatives, and co-workers.
Like his very first case, which he undertook when he was but one and twenty years old. Raúl Gutierrez, who was only fourteen at the time, had been accused of stealing Aunt Flo's big gold Lincoln Continental.
And why did Gabe decide to help Raúl? They weren't friends and not exactly relatives. Raúl was Ezmeralda's nephew, and Ezmeralda was Aunt Flo's boon companion and comrade. So if he thought of Ezmeralda as a sister-in-arms to Aunt Flo, who was actually Gabe's great-aunt, then Raúl was a sort of cousin. Once removed?
In any case, Aunt Flo had taken Gabe in after the death of his mother, and he was determined to find her Lincoln, The police had managed that on their own, but Gabe had solved the case and exonerated Raúl, which had led to the teenage villains being punished. Of course, those same villains would turn up later, but that was another case, another story.
And then he'd done accounting stuff for a few years at Girard-Hartmann Accounting until Eric Girard, one of the partners, had gotten himself and his yacht blown up on Daugherty Creek. Eric had previously fired one Gabe Bergeron from the aforesaid Girard-Hartmann Accounting, and the police had liked Gabe for Eric's murder until they had liked the other partner and Gabe's best friend, Neil Hartmann, better. Gabe had obviously been eager to help his best friend.
And then all sorts of rogues had wanted the Cabrera paintings, which had put Aunt Flo and Ezmeralda into danger.
And he had just sorted that when he'd learned that his mother's death had been a homicide; unsuspected for two decades. Which nobody but Gabe Bergeron was going to investigate.
So Gabe didn't feel that it was weird that he solved crimes. Nope. Not even weird-adjacent.
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May 23, 2026
What can I say about the twenty-first installment in my beloved Bergeron mystery series? I think I’ve already thrown all the superlatives at various volumes over the years. This series is my number one comfort read since I first discovered it.
I’d been checking every few days for the last few months, because I knew it was around the time we normally get the spring installment, and as soon as I saw it up, I bought it and everything else went on hold while I read this. I didn’t even read the description first, so I had no clue what to expect.
For all that the series has become more polished as it’s progressed, this one started out with a bit of awkward dialogue, but it soon found it’s feet. Gabe is visiting his aunt, and this entire story takes place around the B&B. It’s a more compact? constrained? cozy? installment. We see Cory at the beginning and end, but as he so often is, he’s away and out of the loop for the story. Likewise, nothing but brief references to the crew at work. I want to say the cast seems a little more limited than usual, but I’m not 100% sure that’s true. There are at least not an excess of series regulars with page time. I know some readers have had issues with the number of characters in prior books, though I don’t know that this would make an easy entry point.
Trooper Hall, and Detective Velez provide our law enforcement representation, and the plot centers around a series of shootings near the B&B. I particularly enjoyed Gabe’s interactions with Hugo and Gowan.
Anyway, as always, I loved it, and hope there will be many more.
I’d been checking every few days for the last few months, because I knew it was around the time we normally get the spring installment, and as soon as I saw it up, I bought it and everything else went on hold while I read this. I didn’t even read the description first, so I had no clue what to expect.
For all that the series has become more polished as it’s progressed, this one started out with a bit of awkward dialogue, but it soon found it’s feet. Gabe is visiting his aunt, and this entire story takes place around the B&B. It’s a more compact? constrained? cozy? installment. We see Cory at the beginning and end, but as he so often is, he’s away and out of the loop for the story. Likewise, nothing but brief references to the crew at work. I want to say the cast seems a little more limited than usual, but I’m not 100% sure that’s true. There are at least not an excess of series regulars with page time. I know some readers have had issues with the number of characters in prior books, though I don’t know that this would make an easy entry point.
Trooper Hall, and Detective Velez provide our law enforcement representation, and the plot centers around a series of shootings near the B&B. I particularly enjoyed Gabe’s interactions with Hugo and Gowan.
Anyway, as always, I loved it, and hope there will be many more.
“But even so Geir wouldn't be happy if he found out an amateur was privy to the particulars of the investigation. I get that.”
Cliff smiled. “That'll cheer her up.”
“What will?”
“'Privy to the particulars'.”
He may have glared at Clifton Hall. “It's a perfectly good phrase, Trooper.”
Another smile. “It's cute you think that.”
May 26, 2026
Another doozy
It will come as no surprise to anyone who’s read the previous twenty that Lewis has done it again. This time the residents of Snow Hill get center stage: someone is shooting at cars on back roads and there’s no apparent connection or motive to explain why. Cory is off again to the Left Coast, having dropped a few mysterious hints about his career, and Gabe, unable or unwilling to get him to unbend, goes to Snow Hill to protect Aunt Flo and the redoubtable Ezmerelda, who as usual, are quite up to protecting themselves.
Gabe gets asked the solve a murder, but the twist this time is that the client is the one who hires him, before the murder happens.
There’s the usual slew of suspects, and most of them appear innocent to be related to each other, plus the additional annoyance of a blogger who wants the story and Gabe as well, and he does his best to get both. Mixed in with four shootings are a couple of murders, a scattering of divorces, some shady real estate deals and a gay kid having a hard time coming out, in no small part because people around him keep getting shot at.
It’s all great fun, and I love how Gabe talks like a Victorian lady and infuriates everyone around him, but still manages to ferret out the truth. Lewis continues to build his characters’ personalties while introducing new ones I’m guessing we’ll be hearing from again. My only gripe is that the mysterious Mr.Lewis (slim biography, essentially no social media presence and not even a comment section on his website))needs a proofreader to help him with his commas. I’ll do it, gladly: Trychterus@gmail.com.
It will come as no surprise to anyone who’s read the previous twenty that Lewis has done it again. This time the residents of Snow Hill get center stage: someone is shooting at cars on back roads and there’s no apparent connection or motive to explain why. Cory is off again to the Left Coast, having dropped a few mysterious hints about his career, and Gabe, unable or unwilling to get him to unbend, goes to Snow Hill to protect Aunt Flo and the redoubtable Ezmerelda, who as usual, are quite up to protecting themselves.
Gabe gets asked the solve a murder, but the twist this time is that the client is the one who hires him, before the murder happens.
There’s the usual slew of suspects, and most of them appear innocent to be related to each other, plus the additional annoyance of a blogger who wants the story and Gabe as well, and he does his best to get both. Mixed in with four shootings are a couple of murders, a scattering of divorces, some shady real estate deals and a gay kid having a hard time coming out, in no small part because people around him keep getting shot at.
It’s all great fun, and I love how Gabe talks like a Victorian lady and infuriates everyone around him, but still manages to ferret out the truth. Lewis continues to build his characters’ personalties while introducing new ones I’m guessing we’ll be hearing from again. My only gripe is that the mysterious Mr.Lewis (slim biography, essentially no social media presence and not even a comment section on his website))needs a proofreader to help him with his commas. I’ll do it, gladly: Trychterus@gmail.com.
June 9, 2026
Another great read for this series
I’ve enjoyed each book in this series! This latest book continues multiple plot lines for favorite characters. Please continue writing them and sharing Gabe’s adventures.
I’ve enjoyed each book in this series! This latest book continues multiple plot lines for favorite characters. Please continue writing them and sharing Gabe’s adventures.
May 22, 2026
This was a joy to read. I loved it.
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