Death Is No Excuse
I never thought that I would say this but the funniest book I read this month was Death is No Excuse, a book about wills, trusts, and guardianships. It is amazing how fast distributing your assets after death can go horribly, and hilariously, wrong. Each chapter of the book endsContinue Reading
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
Don’t miss the hilarious start to a new cozy mystery series, Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies. Eleanor wrote a book about her short love affair with a conman in Italy. It was a bestseller. The conman, Connor, successfully gets her to fork over part of her bookContinue Reading
Darling Girls
Jessica, Norah, and Alicia are as close as biological sisters. Twenty-five years ago, they shared a foster home with the seemingly perfect Miss Fairchild. From the outside, their life as Miss Fairchild’s Darling Girlslooked happy. However, behind her public facade, Miss Fairchild was a narcissist with a mean streak. TheContinue Reading
Torn Asunder
Julia runs a seasonal professional clambake for mostly tourists on her family’s island off the coast of Maine. The island is remote and only reachable by boat. In Torn Asunder, Julia is beginning a new service. She is using her recently renovated mansion on the island to host weddings. HerContinue Reading
Four-Alarm Homicide
Vandalism, arson, and death are found in the latest cozy House-Flipper mystery, Four-Alarm Homicide. Cousins Whitney and Buck are flipping a historic firehouse and a nearby townhouse. Many local residents show an interest in purchasing the townhouse. However, Whitney has already given the right of first refusal to the townhouse’sContinue Reading
Extinction
What if Jurassic Park was real? But instead of dinosaurs, extremely large extinct animals like woolly mammoths, are recreated. Would you visit? Would you agree with the morality of man becoming godlike? All that is part of Extinction, the latest book by one of the authors of the Lincoln PendergastContinue Reading
Lies My Teacher Told Me
What you don’t know about American history could fill a book. In fact, the book is here and entitled Lies My Teacher Told Me. This graphic true story tells the rest of the tales not told in traditional history books. It also corrects some frequently repeated outright falsehoods. Some areContinue Reading
Mastery
Mastery is a deep dive into the science of how people learn. It is not a pop science book. It is full of scientific discoveries rather than a straightforward explanation. Unfortunately, there is a reason that most books are not this comprehensive. Most science, or at least reading about science,Continue Reading
The Montford Maniac
Is The Montford Maniac on the loose again after a ten-year absence? Lady Violet, author and amateur detective, is on the case. With the help of her fictional characters, can she solve the crime? Hmmm, I so wanted to like this book. While I found the fictional characters in LadyContinue Reading
The Harrowing
The Harrowing is Minority Report crossed with a standard teen superhero in training tale. I feel like similar plots have been around for ages. For a graphic novel, this was more violent than most. Still, this book might be okay for older teens that enjoy that a female superhero tale.Continue Reading
Life Wants You Dead
There is an unmistakable but often overlooked fact of life, Life Wants You Dead. It may be sooner or later but eventually life will get its “death” wish. In this book, the author offers the many ways death is around every corner just waiting to come for you. The resultContinue Reading
The Eleven
An intern from a gossip magazine is sent to interview a reclusive author. The author recounts a harrowing story of his life and his connection to a cult called The Eleven represented by the symbol XIIX. This is no ordinary cult. The Eleven is a great example of why IContinue Reading
The Poison Pen
American ex-pat and Scottish bookseller Delaney has done it again. The amateur sleuth has become entangled in a murder, a hoarder’s life, a pushy attorney, and a possibly stolen national artifact. Can Delaney solve the crime and determine the proper answers to the other questions? You will spend a delightfulContinue Reading
The Gathering
Picture an alternate world where vampires are not only integrated into society, but protected as a racial minority. However, just because they are protected doesn’t mean that everyone has accepted them. In The Gathering, a young man has been killed in a manner implicating the local vampire colony. But areContinue Reading
Murder She Wrote Murder Backstage Review and Giveaway
My Review It’s always a delight to spend time with Jessica, Seth and Mort. In Murder Backstage, Jessica’s identical British cousin, Emma, invites them all to vacation with her in Edmonton, Canada. Emma is rehearsing a new musical revue with a retiring fellow thespian when one of the crew isContinue Reading
Schizotopia
A totally unique take on a novel. Schizotopia is no John Dies at the End. However, it does offer an unusual look at schizophrenia from the inside of a character’s mind. Unfortunately, a schizophrenic narrator does not structure their ideas in a coherent manner. I would call this book moreContinue Reading