Miss Nanoka was orphaned when a sinkhole swallowed up her parents and their car in modern Japan. Now-cursed Nanoka is sometimes sent to the same area fifty years earlier. In Mao Vol 2, Nanoka and the exorcist Mao are still looking for the cat demon, Byoki, in that same eraContinue Reading
My Review You’re invited to a wedding! In Death on the Shelf, Angela and Steve have decided to make it official. Hopefully, Angela’s best friend Carrie, who is organizing the wedding and bridal shower, will be able to pull off both events without a hitch. But then Angela’s hated brotherContinue Reading
Final Spin is the story of two best friends, Johnny and Goat, who decide to rob their employer. Johnny wants to use his share of the money to purchase the laundry mat his “peculiar” brother works at. You see Arty loves laundry like others love their pets—or even children. IContinue Reading
The Cry of the Hangman is historical mystery fiction set in working-class London in 1667. Lucy is a printer’s apprentice. When her mentor, Magistrate Hargrave, is beaten and his court notes stolen, Lucy suspects a rival printer. She soon begins to investigate. The Cry of the Hangman is excellent historicalContinue Reading
Stephanie Plum and her crazy life are back with Game On, the twenty-eighth book in the series. Stephanie is a bail bond enforcement agent with a lot of helpful, and not so helpful, friends and family. Her sidekick is Lula, a former working girl who likes to eat and showContinue Reading
The Nameless Ones is the nineteenth book in the Charlie Parker series. However, Charlie rarely appears in this book. The assassins Louis and Angel are the main characters this time. The Balkan Conflict of the 1990s is alive and well as the Serbian mafia in the Netherlands starts bumping offContinue Reading
Misty turns fifty, sends her last child to college, gets amicably divorced from her husband, and buys a remote mountain lodge in one whirlwind week in Getaway with Murder. After arriving at the lodge, Misty meets a hunky handyman and hires a Wiccan assistant. She makes friends with the ownerContinue Reading
Agatha Raisin finds another corpse in Down the Hatch, book 32 in the popular Cotswolds’ mystery series. Down the Hatch doesn’t wait more than a few pages for Agatha to get embroiled in yet another police case in this fast-moving mystery. When first seeing the body, Agatha, and the astuteContinue Reading
My Review In Punkin Strudel Mayhem, Jolie and Ava are best friends and business partners in a restaurant. The two are so close, they are both pregnant. Jolie with twins. Something happens on a chill October day and Jolie is launched into the Betwixt & In-between World. The nightmarish WorldContinue Reading
Leda is a psychic travel agent. After she saves Seattle Detective Grady’s life, he asks for her help in a cold case. Even though she has Grave Reservations, Leda agrees to help. If she helps Grady, maybe he can help solve her fiancé’s murder. This book is definitely more ofContinue Reading
Tara, the golden retriever, has found another body in Best in Snow. The mayor is found buried in snow. The police quickly arrest a suspect, a reporter who got fired for a false story he wrote about the mayor. Andy, a defense attorney who just wants to retire, is coercedContinue Reading
Author’s Guest Post Where to Live? By Lena Gregory I’ve lived most of my life in a small town on the south shore of Eastern Long Island, along with four generations of my family. My grandfather owned a deli in town, where I started working stocking shelves and sweeping floorsContinue Reading
In The Corpse Flower, a lawyer is killed in his home in Denmark. His home security camera picks up the image of Anna, covered in blood, staring up at the camera. She then disappears. No connection is found by the police between the victim and the suspect. Years later, Heloise,Continue Reading
William Jackson Crawford is skeptical of the seances that are popular in England after World War I. But his skepticism turns to wonder after he meets Kathleen Goligher, who allows him to talk to his beloved mother’s spirit. William spends years trying to prove Kathleen is a genuine medium. AfterContinue Reading
The American Gun Mystery is an early Ellery Queen mystery originally published in 1933. It has been out-of-print for over thirty years until now. I’m a fan of Queen and have read four of the earliest novels with pleasure. This is my first time reading this book. I was disappointedContinue Reading
Fan Fiction is a book about Brent Spiner, who played Data on Star Trek: TNG, written by Brent Spiner. It has a real setting and at least some real characters. It also is fiction, per its title and prologue. Brent is being stalked by a person who represents herself asContinue Reading