It all started with a missing cat. Eleven-year-old Lauren asks Gemma to help her find Snowball, which Gemma promptly does. A few days later, Lauren is back asking Gemma to clear her mom, Sheila, of murder charges. The victim, Anna, was suspected of having an affair with Lauren’s dad, David.Continue Reading
Being a teenager is hard enough. But add in the stress of being a perfect influencer on social media and it is a powder keg just waiting for a lit match to set it off. Influence tells the story of newly transplanted Minnesotan, Delilah, as she tries to climb theContinue Reading
The Wife Upstairs is a brilliant updating of Jane Eyre to a modern-day suspense tale. Only this time Eddie Rochester may have bit off a bit more than he can chew. Jane is no naive young woman. No, she is a thief with secrets of her own. And she isn’tContinue Reading
There are two and a half stories in Moriarty the Patriot Vol 2. They are set in Sherlock Holmes’ London but there is where the similarities end. Albert, Louis and William are sick of the elitist society of Victorian London. Despite being of noble birth, Albert wants to right society’sContinue Reading
Down these mean streets, even a woman must go. In the forties, a woman’s only power over men was her sex appeal. In The Bride Wore Black, Julie is a beautiful woman. What evil lurks within her? Because in classic noir, it’s always about the dame. As a child, wheneverContinue Reading
The Absence of Alice is an enthralling, dark, unusual, and just plain fun cozy mystery. Someone is taunting Sarah. She has seven days to find her landlady and friend Stella. But she must follow the kidnapper’s rules. No talking to the police, your DA boyfriend, Seth, or your mobbed-up neighbor,Continue Reading
This is not my typical review but an attempt to justify why I wasted 4 hours reading this drivel—again. I got excited when I saw Twice Kissed on NetGalley. A new Lisa Jackson book! I quickly downloaded it. Then I realized that I had read this book when it wasContinue Reading
Bait and Witch is the first book in a new paranormal cozy mystery series set in a library in Wilfred, a rural Oregon town. The new librarian, Josie, has accepted the job under false pretenses. She is a federal witness in a high-profile bribery case. Josie only plans to stayContinue Reading
A wife hiding a shocking secret. A husband who wants to leave, but can’t. A son who believes he is a wolf being raised by bears. A homeless woman living, undetected, in The Wrong Family’s house. Can she unmask the family’s mystery? Yum, I ate up this intriguing domestic suspenseContinue Reading
In 1970s Afghanistan, Daniel is working for the Americans to replace the opium-producing poppy fields with food crops. After killing an Afghan girl with his car, he is only fined by the local government. However, The Opium Prince, Taj, begins blackmailing him. Soon, it becomes unclear who is the trueContinue Reading
If you loved Stranger Things and/or tales of government gone horribly, horribly wrong, you will enjoy Red Hands. An out-of-control BMW breaks up a Fourth of July parade in small town New Hampshire. The driver departs the crashed vehicle. Whoever he touches dies. All except Maeve who finally stops himContinue Reading
My Review With a name like Fab, he has to be an Italian womanizer. But now he’s dead. He either fell or was pushed from the roof of his apartment. Were his romantic entanglements Grounds for Murder? After being laid off her high-powered Miami journalist job and divorcing her two-timingContinue Reading
My Review Cassie and Lacy are orphaned sisters who have a special talent. They are bibliomancers, able to tell the future through books. They are also the owners of Books by Bequest, a bookstore within their lighthouse home on the Oregon coast. One day, nineteen-year-old Cassie has had enough. SheContinue Reading
Take It Back is a courtroom drama about a rape. But it is so much more. Zara, a Muslim woman, has left her family’s strict religious rules behind for a shiny career as a barrister in a high-powered London law firm. When her father dies without reconciling with her, ZaraContinue Reading
“We’ve got two muddy, silent mystery girls and a dead body. It all makes for some real concern.”—said by the laconic Police Chief Gril of remote Benedict, Alaska in Cold Wind. It isn’t as if Beth doesn’t have enough going on already. Chased by her memories of an earlier kidnapping,Continue Reading
My Review Library Manager Amy and dancer Richard are getting married! However, a pre-wedding reception at art gallery owner Kurt’s house is tragically interrupted when Kurt’s rival art collector, Oscar, is found murdered in the yard. Intrepid amateur detectives Amy and her best friend and library employee Sunny, of course,Continue Reading