Ali Reynolds’ husband B. is almost killed when traveling to the airport to attend a London business conference. The police are sure it was a planned hit. But was B. the intended victim or was he just Collateral Damage in the attempted murder of his hired driver? Disgraced ex-cop FrankContinue Reading
An improbable cartoonish plot and paper-thin unlikeable characters makes What Have We Done a miss for me. Five teenagers meet in a horrendous group home and do something drastic to save themselves from its horrors. Twenty-five years later, all five have achieved various levels of success: a judge, a techContinue Reading
Review Murder interrupts a genteel tea party and fashion show in Charleston, South Carolina in the Lemon Curd Killer. During a catering event, tea shop owner Theodosia finds a fashion show coordinator, Nadine, face down in the lemon curd. It is obvious that Nadine was shot in the back ofContinue Reading
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is once again waist high in both snow and intrigue in Storm Watch. While being snowed in here in southern California in March(!), I decided to stay in bed under multiple blankets and read a thriller. If my intention was to forget about the snowContinue Reading
Alex North, the author of the brilliant The Whisper Man, is back with the complex, enthralling new thriller, The Angel Maker. The book has not one, not two, but three crazed killers running around! Don’t miss it! High schooler Katie decides to have an after-school tryst rather than walk homeContinue Reading
Maybe it’s because I’m an avid thriller reader but seeing “Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six” on an Airbnb site would not make me want to rent it. Unless I was a demented serial killer, which appears to be the case with most, if not all, of the characters in this convolutedContinue Reading
House flipping cousins Whitney and Buck decide to take on a houseboat in Primer and Punishment. They want a quick flip because Buck’s wedding to Collette, Whitney’s best friend, is fast approaching. They are thinking that the boat would make a great venue for the bachelor and bachelorette parties! Unfortunately,Continue Reading
About No Small Murder No Small Murder: A Mini-Meadows Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Florida Level Best Books (February 21, 2023) Number of Pages 215 Digital ASIN : B0BHX5L1J4 Mini Meadows, a Tiny Home community in rural Central Florida, is home to Emma Wells, aContinue Reading
In Farm’s Way is another great cozy mystery from one of my favorite authors, Amanda Flower. Shiloh is coerced by her best friend, Kristy, to investigate a murder of an almost universally disliked local brewery owner. Despite the plethora of suspects, the police are focusing on Kristy’s husband and ShilohContinue Reading
Dread is a hard emotion to spark within a book. But The Spite House does it intensely throughout. Eric Ross is a father to two girls: 18-year-old Dess and 7-year-old Stacy. They are on the run from an unnamed tragedy when he sees an intriguing help wanted ad in ruralContinue Reading
In Such Pretty Flowers, Dane is graduating college and moving in with his new girlfriend, Maura, a florist. Dane’s family begins to see that he may be dealing with some mental health challenges. However, weekly therapy does not prevent Dane from soon killing himself in a most unusual way. Holly,Continue Reading
Psychologist Alex Delaware and police detective Milo Sturgis are investigating another bizarre death in the Los Angeles sunshine in Unnatural History. A troubled trust funded photographer is murdered in his bed. Could his murderer be a family member looking to increase their chunk of the family’s future inheritance? Or wasContinue Reading
Finlay and Vero, accidental contract killers, are at it again in Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun. This time the pair are looking for a corrupt policeman, who in turn turned on his mob boss, for the same mob boss who in turn is blackmailing them, while paying to attend aContinue Reading
Three groups of people are trapped on a stopped sky cable car, an overturned chartered bus, and at a rural resort working on a secret science project. While the snowstorm is not helping, the raging pandemic making huge swaths of the population both epically contagions and into modern zombies isContinue Reading
Evans Hobbs is a child actor trying to jump into adult roles. When a deepfake video of him doing disgusting things goes viral, his adult career appears to be over before it really began. But worse is in store for Evan. He is soon found dead in a Malibu rockslide.Continue Reading
I was expecting a science fiction thriller and received an in-depth literary fiction look into San Fran tech startups. I think Please Report Your Bug Here would be a great choice for aspiring teen tech billionaires. It was written by one of the first Instagram employees. However, mystery and thrillerContinue Reading