What used to take an hour of research in a library can now be found in a few minutes with Google. But can our poor brain retain all that information? Can it combine it effectively to create something new? Maybe…but it is more efficient to offload some of that informationContinue Reading
Author Guest Post The Ultimate in Kitchen Envy One of the great joys of writing cozy culinary mysteries is, of course, writing about food. But even better is engaging in kitchen envy without any shame. In the Cape Cod Foodie mysteries, our heroine, Samantha Barnes, is a disgraced but resilientContinue Reading
Who doesn’t want to be Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers? With this book, it is an attainable dream for even the most unartistic people. And the results are beautiful and professional enough to hang on your wall. Beginning with arcs and straight lines, this book is as step-by-step as itContinue Reading
In The Sanctuary, four pregnant women go to a secluded yoga spa owned by Selina. All of them including Selina have secrets and hidden agendas. When someone dies, their secrets begin to seep out into the open. Yawn. This book has almost the exact same plot as Nine Perfect StrangersContinue Reading
In Death by Beach Read, librarian Lucy and her boyfriend Mayor Connor are fixing up their recently purchased beach house. The house is rumored to be haunted but it is a real corpse that Lucy finds on their kitchen floor. Death by Beach Read is my least favorite book inContinue Reading
I picked up this book because I was looking for something different than my usual domestic suspense or cozy mysteries. Imagine my surprise when I discovered Little Bird is a darkly humorous cozy horror tale (or maybe fantasy or even magical realism—it’s hard to categorize and that is part ofContinue Reading
What if you took the plot of Strangers on a Train but removed the train and added spousal abuse and copious alcohol? You would have The Favor. While the plot is familiar, it moves at a good pace. I read it in one sitting. I was expecting a bit moreContinue Reading
Black Tide begins with a romance that quickly turns into an apocalyptic horror tale. Beth and Mike meet over their garden wall and quickly get drunk together. When Beth wakes up alone in Mike’s bed, she has dreamed of an alien invasion. However, it turns out it is not justContinue Reading
Five strangers with nothing in common find themselves in absolute terror. All have had a child, fiancée, or best friend go missing. A text tells them there is only one way to save their loved one. They must play—and win—The Game… This book is such an adrenaline-filled rush that IContinue Reading
An old school homicide detective gets paired with a young nerdy detective in Pryor & Cummings The GAIA Incident. A computer scientist is found dead locked within a school lab. Video shows him getting shot but no one left the lab afterwards. Can Pryor and Cummings determine how the murderContinue Reading
My Review Mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher is celebrating summer with her family on New York’s Rockaway Beach. Her nephew Grady, his wife Donna and their young son Frank have been gifted a month long stay in an oceanfront bungalow courtesy of the owner of Donna’s company, Jason Courtland. But whenContinue Reading
Lucas is a psychopath at worst or a conniving murderer at best. He married his wife Madison for her money. And now, he has made sure that she is Never Coming Home. She is not the first death that Lucas has initiated to achieve financial freedom. And she probably won’tContinue Reading
Finn is unlucky. He has been bullied and struck by lightning in the past. But today is his worst luck ever. He is kidnapped in a strange case of mistaken identity. Can Finn convince the kidnappers that he is not who they are looking for? Or will today be hisContinue Reading
Just Like Mother is a creepy crawly plot-heavy gothic tale featuring two girls born into a cult. Maeve and her cousin Andrea are part of The Mother Collective, which reveres motherhood above all else. At a young age, the girls are separated when the cult is broken up by lawContinue Reading
Metropolis is a five-story storage facility in downtown Boston. Six strangers are connected with it in mysterious ways. All have issues to be resolved. Then an incident happens at the facility shining a light on some of the shady dealings happening there. If you enjoy in-depth character studies of peopleContinue Reading
In My Wife is Missing, Michael, his wife Natalie and their two children are celebrating spring break in New York City. On the day they arrive, Michael goes to pick up some pizza alone. When he returns, his family and their luggage are gone. After a frantic search, Michael hasContinue Reading