With or Without You
In With or Without You, Stella and Patrick have been together twenty years. Now forty-two, nurse Stella wants to buy their apartment, get married, and have a baby. Patrick is still chasing his rock band dream even though his sole hit is called Dad Rock now. They both love eachContinue Reading
The End of Her
Erica gets around. She bullied the people adopting her newborn baby into handing over an extra $100,000. She is having an affair with Niall, a married man, with the intent to blackmail him later. And now she is blackmailing Patrick to not tell his wife, or the authorities, about theContinue Reading
Tea & Treachery
My Review Tea & Treachery is the first book in a new culinary cozy mystery series by the author of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and the Lighthouse Library literary cozy mystery series. On Cape Cod, Lily owns a tearoom right next to her grandmother Rose’s bed and breakfast. Rose’s otherContinue Reading
He Started It
He Started It is another completely original sociopathic family thriller from the author of the serial killer couple thriller, My Lovely Wife. Road trip! Siblings Eddie, Beth, and Portia are recreating a road trip they had with their grandfather twenty years earlier as children. This time, their dead grandfather’s remainsContinue Reading
RWBY: The Official Manga Vol 1
Smart Ruby, princess Weiss, athletic Blake, and Ruby’s older sister Yang are roommates at Beacon Academy hoping to become huntresses to kill Grimm in RWBY: The Official Manga Vol 1. Who doesn’t like a school setting where the students are training to be something extraordinary? Harry Potter and the X-MenContinue Reading
Quiche of Death Guest Post and Giveaway
Author’s Guest Post Family Dinners Can Be Deadly First off, thank-you for letting me stop by. I’m excited about this latest installment in the Sugar & Spice Mystery series and appreciate the opportunity to talk about it. Friends and business partners, Sugar Calloway and Dixie Spicer have done well withContinue Reading
Night Shift
Hildy already has a full-time job working as a hospital social worker in rural Sorenson, Wisconsin. She decides to take a second job to ride along with Police Officer Devonshire (Devo for short) and her therapy dog, Roscoe on the Night Shift. Hildy is doing what all the Defund theContinue Reading
The Wife Who Knew Too Much
The Wife Who Knew Too Much has the best opening paragraph I’ve read in quite a while. “I’m writing this to raise an alarm in case of my untimely death. This is hard to admit, even to myself, let alone to the world. My husband is planning to kill me.Continue Reading
Playing Nice
“I’m sorry to have to tell you that Theo isn’t your son. He’s mine.” said Miles to Pete. It seems that their now two-year-old sons were switched at birth in the hospital. And Miles has DNA evidence to prove it in Playing Nice, a new domestic thriller by the authorContinue Reading
His & Hers
His & Hers is a true cat and mouse story. Or maybe cat among the pigeons is a better analogy. It is my favorite book so far this year for its completely original story and especially for its many twists and turns in the plot. For two years, Anna AndrewsContinue Reading
The Devil’s Bones
In The Devil’s Bones, Sarah Booth, a proudly pregnant Tinkie, Cece, and Jitty the ghost are on vacation! But, as usual, where Sarah Booth goes, trouble follows. It’s Easter and the flowers around Bexler B&B in South Mississippi are beautiful. Not so beautiful? Finding a corpse on the first dayContinue Reading
The Woman Before Wallis
The Woman Before Wallis is Thelma Furness. As the book opens, Thelma is married to her second husband and is having a public affair with the soon-to-be King Edward. She is called away to America to support her identical twin sister, Gloria Vanderbilt. Gloria is in the “Trial of theContinue Reading
Larceny at the Library Guest Post and Giveaway
Author Guest Post The main setting for “Larceny at the Library” is the Library of Congress, situated on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world; there is truly no comparable institution in terms of scope, depth, and breadth of collections. IContinue Reading
Nemesis Manifesto
It’s war—cyber war with the Russians! In the Russian corner, it’s a new AI netbot code named Soul Searcher spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories online about Benjamin Butler. Why Benjamin, you ask? He is the head of the Department of Defense’s black ops division. But the real reason is becauseContinue Reading
Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay, set in California, is the third book in the Deputy Coroner Clay Edison series. Deputy Coroner Clay is a new father to fourteen-week-old Charlotte. He and his wife, psychologist Amy, are alternating shifts watching Charlotte sleep very little and cry quite a bit. Since Clay works theContinue Reading
Remain in Love
Remain in Love is an extremely detailed memoir, almost an autobiography of the drummer for Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. Beginning at the beginning, the book starts with the author’s birth. Then it backtracks to his parent’s meeting for the first time. In fact, it takes quite awhileContinue Reading