The Last Christmas
The Last Christmas is the first Repairman Jack novel published in seven years. By all accounts, Jack’s fans are going to eat this book up with a spoon. Jack is a fixer. He helps people with difficult problems to find a solution. In this case, he is hired to lookContinue Reading
Impossible Causes
“Lark was a religious community: participation was expected, baptism a stipulation.” “…but soon the fog would descend, making Lark unreachable. Unleavable. There would be no more ships until April.”—from Impossible Causes. Atmospheric combination of The Village and Carrie sets the scene in this coming-of-age gothic horror thriller. I expected toContinue Reading
Hazards in Hampshire
Hazards in Hampshire (A British Book Tour Mystery) by Emma Dakin The Author’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe The George, Wallingford In the book, Claire Barclay met Detective Inspector Mark Evans at this restaurant near the Agatha Christie Museum in Wallingford. The women on her tour were impressed with the menuContinue Reading
The World at Night
Filled with beautiful photographs of The World at Night, this book also highlights some of the world’s most beautiful places. From Stonehenge to Red Square to Mount Everest, all the photos highlight the night sky. There are pictures of star trails and eclipse paths captured with camera wizardry. It isContinue Reading
A Minute to Midnight
This time it’s personal for female FBI Agent Atlee Pine. She is looking for her sister, Mercy, and/or her abductor. It is an ice-cold case having happened thirty years earlier when the girls were both six. But Atlee is determined even when there is only A Minute to Midnight. Atlee’sContinue Reading
Plant-based Diet Guide for Beginners
The Plant-based Diet Guide for Beginners is a combination of a health guide, diet book, and cookbook. It provides a brief overview of all of the modern diets even the meat-based ones like Atkins and Keto. It also describes what diseases each have been reported to prevent, cure, or maintainContinue Reading
Body on the Train
In 1929, Mrs. Shackleton is one of only two female private detectives in London when a Body on the Train is found murdered. Mrs. Shackleton is called in by Scotland Yard to investigate a man found dead in a potato sack on a train. The man was only wearing underpants.Continue Reading
Twenty-one Truths about Love
Daniel is the owner of a failing bookstore trying to solve all his problems through obsessive list making in Twenty-one Truths about Love. It’s hard to be Daniel. He loves his pregnant wife but constantly lies to her about the profitability of his business. He is worried about his abilityContinue Reading
Fate Guest Post and Giveaway
Fate: A Doyle Witch Cozy Mystery (The Witches of Doyle #6) by Kirsten Weiss Guest Post by the Author November Kitchen Witchery November is a cozy cooking time of year. And even though Jayce Bonheim, the heroine of my cozy witch mystery, Fate, calls herself an earth witch, there’s someContinue Reading
30-minute Vegetarian Cookbook
Becoming kinder to animals is much easier with the 30-minute Vegetarian Cookbook. Whether you are a full-time vegetarian or just looking for some innovative ideas for Meatless Mondays, this book will show you how with its impressive collection of both fast and easy recipes. From breakfast to dessert and everyContinue Reading
Anything for You
Valerie is a detective in the San Francisco Police Department in the new thriller, Anything for You. She and her partner are investigating an attempted robbery when a call comes in from the house next door. A robber has broken into the house and stabbed the husband and wife leavingContinue Reading
Memories and Murder
Memories and Murder (A Tourist Trap Mystery) by Lynn Cahoon My Review Jill runs a bookstore and coffee shop in a small coastal Californian town in Memories and Murder, the tenth entry in the Tourist Trap cozy mystery series. When her partner and aunt, Jackie, unexpectedly calls off her engagementContinue Reading
Echoes of the Fall
Echoes of the Fall is the third in the Earl Marcus series of mysteries set in a mountainous and rural area of North Georgia. What a way to wake up from a whiskey bender! Dunked headfirst unceremoniously into the river several times. After the third time, Earl Marcus remembered whyContinue Reading
Manhunters
Fans of the Netflix series Narcos will be enthralled with this true-life story by the two Escobar Manhunters in their own words. Working up the Drug Enforcement Agency’s power structure in the 1980s as an undercover agent in Austin and tracking illegal shipments of cocaine in Miami. Javier and Steve,Continue Reading
Pursuit of William Abbey
Dr. William Abbey’s trouble is threefold. First, he is a mediocre doctor at best in 1884. Much better at diagnosing disease than curing it. Second, he falls in love with a woman above his station, leading to debts and eventually exile to South Africa. While there, he watches the executionContinue Reading
A Marvelous Life
Comic book and Marvel movie fans rejoice! A definitive biography of Stan Lee, particularly his Marvel years, is here! Stan Lee, creator of iconic superheroes like Spider-Man and Iron Man truly led A Marvelous Life. Beginning with his poverty-stricken childhood and ending with the lawsuits for elder abuse still waitingContinue Reading