Building a Better Boomer details the troublesome issues that come with aging. It seems true to my experience as a recently retired boomer myself. Unfortunately, it isn’t laugh-out-loud funny, or even a quick giggle. But I may be too close to the topic. It might be better for forty andContinue Reading
Review I always enjoy the twofer of reading the Mystery Bookshop series. You get the contemporary bookstore owner mystery and the historical fiction mystery that she is writing simultaneously. In Murder on Tour, I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes look at a book tour the most. I loved the scandal of oneContinue Reading
Cat and Gilley are forced to investigate a murder in Coaching Fire, book 5 of the Lifestyle Coach mysteries. This book has it all: two serious romances, a behind-the-scenes look at a rose parade pageant, an arson, an assault and of course, the murder. Even with all that action, myContinue Reading
Thirty Days of Darkness is a Nordic thriller with a twist. Hannah is a low selling award winning literary fiction author. She looks down upon genre fiction like mysteries. She takes up a challenge by a well-known bestselling mystery author, Jorn, to write her own mystery novel in thirty days.Continue Reading
The Edge is another terrific thriller from the master, David Baldacci. A former Ranger, Travis Devine, is working for the government in various shady projects. His latest assignment is to investigate the murder of CIA agent Jenny Silkwell in a rural coastal Maine town. The agent’s phone and laptop areContinue Reading
What would happen if a verified alien crash landed on Earth? In Rocopon 1, the alien is welcomed, made an honored citizen and chooses to call himself Rocopon. But soon the alien is last week’s news. He appears to wander aimlessly around the Earth. However, Rocopon has a secret. HeContinue Reading
Bernie is a gentleman thief. He is also the owner of a brick-and-mortar bookshop in Greenwich Village, New York. Neither of those occupations are easy in today’s world. His customers browse in his bookstore but buy their books online. Cameras and electronic locks are everywhere. But what if one morning,Continue Reading
Stephanie Plum and her entire circle of co-workers, friends and family are back in Dirty Thirty. Bail bondswoman Stephanie is looking for a bunch of bail jumpers and a possible jewel thief. Former lady of the evening Lula is her irrepressible self trying to avoid a stalker, who just happensContinue Reading
If you are ready for an even funnier, and incredibly wackier, version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, look no further. Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia takes that iconic novel and raises the pot 200%! Zoey is trying to run her father’s criminal enterprise in a desertContinue Reading
West Heart Kill breaks the fourth wall by talking directly to the reader. About what you may ask. About how mystery authors have conventions that readers have come to expect. It is implied that the author speaking to us is about to defy these conventions (as Agatha Christie famously didContinue Reading
It’s always a great day when I get to drop in on the antics in Harvest, Ohio. Millie is an Amish matchmaker and widow. Lois is her non-Amish purple haired multi-divorcee longtime best friend. In Dating Can Be Deadly, Millie puts aside her matchmaking to enter her latest quilt inContinue Reading
The Robin Hood stories are reimagined as medieval history in the graphic novel, Tales from Nottingham Vol. 1. The artwork is detailed and colorful. It has the mood of the old Classics Illustrated comics or the pictures in an old history book. The plot takes real, but long dead, royaltyContinue Reading
Something strange is happening to Tamsin. First, her team at Myrica Dynamic discovers that their city is sinking. Could it be caused by the team’s mysterious secret underground project? More concerning is that Tamsin’s basement is sinking even faster than the surrounding area. Then a door appears, and an exactContinue Reading
Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! I know the holidays are quickly approaching when the latest humorous cozy mystery featuring Meg Landslow comes out. There is nothing better to get you in a holiday mood! Meg’s friend and patron, Ragnar, has opened up his massive estateContinue Reading
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down. In fact, on every day in history something happened, though a lot of it was pretty boring. Once you look up everyone’s birthday, I don’t see the value of this book. The entries don’t link together into some overarching story. You canContinue Reading
Murder on the Christmas Express has all the tropes that I enjoy in a locked room (train in this case) mystery. A holiday, a birth, an abusive marriage, snow, etc. are all here. So why was it such a struggle to read? Too many characters and almost all were moreContinue Reading