George is a runaway foster child, who is also a brilliant hacker and coder. Pandora has a hyperexpressive face (think Jim Carrey) and also excels at coding. Together, they are recruited by a large Silicon Valley firm to create a virtual friend for suicidal teens—with AI. What could possibly goContinue Reading
Abby and Kate are The Wife and the Widow, respectively, in an exhilarating new thriller by the author of The Nowhere Child. What has happened to Kate’s husband, John? When he didn’t return from a business trip, Kate investigates. It appears John never went on the trip despite Skyping KateContinue Reading
Set on a foreign planet, Vanished Birds begins by telling the tale of Kaeda. Kaeda falls in love with Nia at age 7. There is only one problem. She is an alien from an alternate timeline where Earth lays dead. Unfortunately, she visits Kaeda’s planet only once every fifteen yearsContinue Reading
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean the Deep State isn’t after you. In a very Trumpian administration, Hayley is a young military veteran and White House intern. When her mentor, Chief of Staff Peter Hall is killed of an apparent cardiac arrest, she is suspicious. After all, he had justContinue Reading
Another great madcap adventure in the Poppy Harmon series! This time it revolves around Poppy Harmon and the Hung Jury on which she finds herself. Poppy, a retired actress, owns a detective agency with her two friends, Violet and Iris. Poppy in the also excellent first book in the series,Continue Reading
My Review Another twisty mystery thriller from J.T. Ellison! Good Girls Lie is set at an all girls’ elite prep school in rural Virginia. Ash is a new student with a horrible past in England. But will she fit in with a bunch of privileged American brats? And what secretsContinue Reading
So what’s so important about 1973 to rock? A lot of bands and cultural icons began that year. From the first Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve to the first albums of diverse acts like Bruce Springsteen, Queen, the New York Dolls, and Aerosmith, music had plenty to celebrate whileContinue Reading
Do you know the feeling you get when you pick up a new cookbook and realize it will be your new go-to cookbook? The ingredients are the food you already love and always have on hand? The recipes teach innovative ways to combine the ingredients for completely new flavor experiences?Continue Reading
Fire, Fog and Water (Sgt. Windflower Mysteries) by Mike Martin Author Guest Post Enjoy the Story In fiction, you have to suspend belief in order to follow the story. That means things like pretending to be in a different location with people that you don’t know in order to experienceContinue Reading
The author was initially misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. Instead, she had autoimmune encephalitis, an organic brain disorder often called The Great Pretender for its ability to mimic the signs of psychiatric disease. Even though she was labeled as a mental patient for only a week, wondering what would have happened ifContinue Reading
Someone is targeting the Irish Guard (police) in the unusual and twisty thriller, Galway Girl. Jack Taylor, is a former Guard and currently alcoholic private detective who is trying to get over his daughter’s recent murder when he witnesses a Guard shot point-blank in front of his apartment. In addition,Continue Reading
Raymond Chandler has been reincarnated in the expressive prose of Shamus Dust. On Christmas Day, a man is found dead on the porch of a church in post-WWII City of London. By all accounts, the victim, Raymond Jarrett, was up to no good. Pictures of young boys in compromising positionsContinue Reading
Meg is helping her Grandfather run Owl Fest 2019 at the Caerphilly Inn at Christmas. When its 200 ornithologist guests are stranded by a snowstorm, one of the most cantankerous and least-loved professors is killed. Time for Meg to step in, with help of her extensive family, to solve theContinue Reading
The game is afoot in the excellent Sherlock Holmes tale of spies and revolution, the Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols. Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft enlists Holmes’ help with a mysterious French manuscript. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is ostensibly a book recording a conference of Jews describingContinue Reading
Andy, the perpetually retiring defense lawyer, gets sucked into two cases involving dogs in the fun cozy mystery, Dachshund Through the Snow. Andy is asked by an old cop frenemy to find a way to get the city to allow the cop’s K-9 partner, Simon, to retire with him inContinue Reading
“Being Indistractable means striving to do what you say you will do.” The author presents four steps that fight the major time sucks in your life and how you deal with them. First, there are concrete methods to master internal triggers that distract from the task you should be doing.Continue Reading