So you have celiac or need to stop eating gluten because it doesn’t “agree with you”. The Celiac Disease Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed is the perfect way to feel better (and less sorry for yourself). It is a soul-crushing blow when you realize most breads, pies, cakes, flour tortillas,Continue Reading
“I use the term Essence to describe the fundamental, living, intelligent, loving energy that makes up the entire universe and everything beyond it. Essence is like the air you breathe—always present, rarely noticed, but essential for life.”—from The Universe is Calling You. I believe in both reincarnation and karma soContinue Reading
My Review What can be more romantic that a Valentine Day trip to Paris, the City of Lights and Love? Well for Lana the tour host, finding her new boyfriend is on the tour—with his wife—is not the best day in her life. But the tour must go on. WhenContinue Reading
Willpower is an “energetic determination” to accomplish a goal. That goal can be adding something like finishing your college degree or stopping something like eating less to lose weight. However, it is much more likely to happen if the end goal is yours—and not your parent’s or boyfriend’s desire. SoContinue Reading
My Review Zoe juggles a murder, a marriage, and a missing half-brother in Under the Radar. Zoe is a paramedic and a part-time deputy coroner in western Pennsylvania. Plus her boyfriend, Pete, is the local police chief. So you can see why she gets involved in so many mysteries. InContinue Reading
It’s a race to find the killer in a new detective series where a female victim is found naked and smothered every ten days. With the fourth victim found at the beginning of the book, can detective partners A.L. and Rena solve the mystery before the next Ten Days GoneContinue Reading
In her new Vegan Bodybuilder’s Cookbook, the Jacked on the Beanstalk blogger clearly states that you can be meat and dairy free while still winning bodybuilding competitions. Plus she has the receipts to prove it. She was the 2014 WNBF bikini pro and the coach of the winner of theContinue Reading
Inspector Ghote has been promoted to the prestigious Bombay Crime Branch that investigates serious crimes involving India’s VIPs. However, the Inspector appears to be in disfavor already with the Branch’s Head, Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr. Divekar, in A Small Case for Inspector Ghote? And what is that “small case”?Continue Reading
Filled with the Rashomon Effect of a multitude of possibly unreliable witnesses, The Aosawa Murders is the first English translation of an award-winning 2005 Japanese mystery. “If there are ten people in a house and nine die, who is the culprit? It’s not a whodunnit. The answer’s easy—it’s the survivor,Continue Reading
“If my kids had been with me, it wouldn’t have happened. I would have stayed in the minivan, doors locked, windows rolled up. Just like the 911 operator instructed.” Instead Cassie confronts a knife-wielding assassin, who warns her, “Let her die, and I’ll let you live.” When the man racesContinue Reading
Oscar Heinrich was an American Sherlock Holmes. Though he believed Holmes used intuition rather than science to solve his cases. Heinrich opened the first private crime lab in the US. He invented blood-splatter analysis and ballistics while proving that a fingerprint could be relied on as evidence. American Sherlock isContinue Reading
If you’re a fan of Twitch or Mixer, Don’t Read the Comments is both good advice and a good read. Divya is a successful “Glitch” gamer who helps her recently divorced mom pay bills from her sponsorship money. [It must be nice to have sponsors. I always laugh when someoneContinue Reading
In a 2017 C-SPAN poll, President Lincoln was found to be the best President by 91 historians and authors. But how was his personal life? In Courting Mr. Lincoln, his future wife, Mary Todd, and his best friend, Joshua Speed, tell his story during the last twenty-five years of hisContinue Reading
Inspector Ghote’s Good Crusade is a classic mystery from 1966. Set in India, it is only the second entry in the long-running series. Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Criminal Investigation Division is investigating a murder. The victim was a rich American philanthropist. He died of arsenic poisoning at his homeContinue Reading
Author Interview Describe your latest book, Southern Double Cross, in five words or less. Good clean cozy fun! You have written two complete series, the Lizzie Hart Mysteries and the Java Jive Mystery series. Both series are complete with five books each. Does that mean we can expect two moreContinue Reading
The Great Witches Baking Show by Nancy Warren on Tour February 1-29, 2019 My Review: Imagine! You have been selected to be on The Great British Baking Contest. Once there, you slowly realize that there are witches as both hosts and contestants. In fact, they should call it the GreatContinue Reading