In Parable of the Sower, Lauren is a preacher’s daughter living in the broken world of the Los Angeles’ suburbs in 2024. Climate change has left the world short of water. The class battle has been fought—and won by the rich. Hope for the future is non-existent. But Lauren hasContinue Reading
Victim and survivor Flora Dane is back with a vengeance in When You See Me. D.D. Warren is assigned a multi-jurisdictional case of a skeleton buried fifteen years in rural Georgia. Jacob Ness, the serial killer who held Flora as his sex slave for over a year until she killedContinue Reading
Dangerous Desires by Dawn Altieri Genre: Romantic Suspense Three years after Emma Sloane’s wealthy fiance’s mysterious death, she’s finally ready to move on and pursue her own dreams. But her plans are derailed when she’s attacked outside her New York City apartment in what she thinks is a random violentContinue Reading
Author Guest Post PLAYING THE NAME GAME By Kate Collins Confession time: I’m horrible at remembering names. If we were introduced, there’s a ninety percent chance I’d forget your name thirty seconds after I heard it, and it has nothing to do with you not being memorable. Actually, I’m notContinue Reading
In American Dirt, Lydia and her son are the sole survivors of the Mexican cartel’s hit on their family. Lydia’s husband wrote an expose on the head of the cartel for his newspaper, which resulted in the kill order. Lydia quickly realizes she needs to flee Acapulco and get asylumContinue Reading
A Case for the Winemaker Ainsley McGregor Book 1 by Candace Havens Genre: Cozy Mystery The closer she gets to the truth, the more she finds herself drowning in trouble. It’s an exciting time in Sweet River, Texas, and the whole town’s talking. Maybe, a little too much. Former EnglishContinue Reading
A Field Guide to Homicide (A Cat Latimer Mystery) by Lynn Cahoon Author Guest Post First off, thanks for having me over today Diane. I’m Lynn Cahoon, cozy mystery author of several series but today I’m here talking about my new release – A FIELD GUIDE TO HOMICIDE. This isContinue Reading
Being a vegan should be healthier in general. But when you add in whole foods, you can lose weight and attain several other health benefits. Once you begin Whole Food Vegan Baking, you won’t want to return to that McDonald’s apple pie ever again (even though it is surprisingly “vegan-friendly”).Continue Reading
About Dead Week Will Dead Week kill Cassandra’s career? VP of Student Affairs Cassandra Sato has a desk full of problems and it’s not even Thanksgiving break. A student’s injury and a deaf advocacy project brings national media attention to underfunded Morton College. Cassandra’s new boss talks to her deadContinue Reading
So you have been trying to fulfill your New Year’s Day resolution to lose weight. But it is not working. Or not working fast enough. If you are ready to try the nuclear option, read Intermittent Fasting for Women (because you don’t really have to be a woman to useContinue Reading
Literally everything interesting in this novel, The Third Rainbow Girl, is spelled out in the first chapter. Two girls were shot to death, but not sexually assaulted, in the summer of 1980 in West Virginia while on their way to a outdoor peace festival called the Rainbow Gathering. Thirteen yearsContinue Reading
Today we probe the mind of best-selling author of the Walker Papers paranormal fantasy series and the new Dublin Driver cozy mysteries, Catie (C.E.) Murphy. For more information about Dead in Dublin, her latest book and the first entry in the Dublin Driver series, see my review here. 1.You areContinue Reading
This young adult romance is about tweets and the characters are cute so it wins for most appropriate title, Tweet Cute. Ahhh, first love. Technically, first annoyance and then love. Pepper is uprooted from her Nashville roots to move to NYC with her family. Their restaurant, Big League Burgers, hasContinue Reading
Abby and Kate are The Wife and the Widow, respectively, in an exhilarating new thriller by the author of The Nowhere Child. What has happened to Kate’s husband, John? When he didn’t return from a business trip, Kate investigates. It appears John never went on the trip despite Skyping KateContinue Reading
Through the Nethergate by Roberta Eaton Cheadle Author Guest Post About Henry Scarle Henry Scarle is the leader of the group of ghosts that haunt the inn in Bungay where Margaret goes to live with her grandfather following the deaths of her parents. Margaret’s powers cause the ghosts to reincarnateContinue Reading
Private Detective (and overall bada$$) Alice Vega is asked to be a consultant for the DEA. She’s investigating the deaths of two twelve to fourteen year old females, The Janes, murdered separately near San Diego, California. There are two weird things going on with the case. First, the females haveContinue Reading