Forget You Know Me
After what appears to be an emergency occurs, why would a friend ask another to Forget You Know Me? Liza and Molly are best friends since childhood. But when Liza moves to Chicago and Molly marries and has two children, they slowly drift apart. They finally get together through FacetimeContinue Reading
Miraculum
Miraculum is a carnival with a big top, a midway, and freak show in 1922. It is also the setting for a battle of good against evil. After the suicide of the carnival’s chicken biting geek, a mysterious well-dressed man applies for the job. Despite a lack of experience, heContinue Reading
Smiling Man
The Smiling Man is a dark and compelling police procedural set during the night shift in a poor Manchester area. Detective Aidan Waits has been stuck on the night shift by his superiors and partnered with Detective Inspector Sutty, who is not the most motivated of men. When a bodyContinue Reading
Readymade Home Furniture
Readymade Home Furniture takes off the shelf items found at any big box home improvement store and repurposes them into practical items for your home. While some of the projects are simple like message boards and planters, others are complex like club chairs and closet home offices. There are 23Continue Reading
Nowhere Child
In the Nowhere Child, Sammy Went is two years old when she goes missing from her home in Manson, Kentucky. Twenty-eight years later, Kimberly is living her life quietly in Australia. She is approached by James who says he believes she is his missing sister, Sammy. After seeing a DNAContinue Reading
Great Thinking Machine
Professor Van Dusen, also known as the Great Thinking Machine, unravels puzzles that would stump a lesser man. The “Problem of Cell 13” is rather famous as an ingenious locked room mystery. The Professor is challenged by two colleagues to escape from a real prison cell within a week. TheContinue Reading
Maid
The tenacious memoir of the author’s struggle with poverty and single motherhood is told in Maid. Stephanie has dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. Those dreams are shattered by an unexpected pregnancy and an abusive baby’s daddy. With experience only as a barista in an economic downturn,Continue Reading
Take-out
Loosely tied together by the theme of food, the sixteen stories contained in Take-Out vary from crime stories to humor. While I enjoyed reading all the stories, my favorite was “The Gift of the Wiseguy”. It’s the story of a Mafioso’s son who writes a memoir. His father had rattedContinue Reading
The Burglar
The Burglar is Elle, a young woman who steals from society homes in Los Angeles by blending into their lifestyle. All is well for Elle until she finds three dead bodies in a house she is robbing and then releases that a camera is recording not just them but herContinue Reading
Eye of the Beholder
A mysterious private investigator known only as the Eye falls for a woman he is hired to follow in the Eye of the Beholder. Unfortunately, the woman is a serial killer. The Eye ignores this single flaw and even helps the woman by hiding a few bodies deeper so sheContinue Reading
Tear It Down
Tear It Down is a rip-roaring adventure into the underbelly of Memphis with Peter Ash’s haunted military veteran taking down drug dealers with the help of his friends and girlfriend, June. Peter gets antsy when he stays at home too much so June sends him to her friend, Wanda, inContinue Reading
Perfect Liar
Everyone has secrets in the Perfect Liar. Susannah has finally reached the good life with her second husband, Max, and her son, Freddy. Then a note is tacked to her door, “I know who you are”. Susannah assumes the note is meant for her. However, Max also has secrets toContinue Reading
Her One Mistake
Her One Mistake was leaving her daughter with her best friend, Charlotte. Harriet and Brian have one four-year-old daughter named Alice. As Harriet is a stay-at-home mom, Alice has never been away from Harriet’s side. However, Harriet’s family is struggling to make ends meet. Harriet decides to take a bookkeepingContinue Reading
Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
Charley Davidson, the Grim Reaper, and her husband, Reyes, former demon and son of Satan, have one more hellish situation to fix in Summoned to Thirteenth Grave. Charley is finally released from her purgatory from the last book. While she was gone, a new hell dimension has opened in Albuquerque.Continue Reading
New Iberia Blues
New Iberia Blues is another great southern police procedural from James Lee Burke. The crucifixion death of a woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux to a Hollywood director in town to make a movie. What follows is a slam-bam thriller. While New Iberia Blues is not the best book in theContinue Reading
Rock Stars at Home
With brief descriptions of their lifestyles, Rock Stars at Home offers an inside look at lives that can only be dreamed of by regular folks. Starting with Frank Sinatra’s famous Palm Springs home all the way to Noel Gallagher from Oasis, this book has a chapter for fans of allContinue Reading