Night Moves
Milo and Alex are back in a twisty and compelling tale. The body was found in a quiet suburban Pacific Palisades neighborhood with its head disfigured by a shotgun blast and its hands removed. The residents, a family of four, claim to not know the victim. When Milo feels aContinue Reading
Cat of the Baskervilles
Good cozy mystery with Holmes setting. Gemma Doyle is co-owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium and Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room next door. Located in the small touristy town of West London Massachusetts, the bookshop sells all manner of Holmes books and miscellany. The Tea Room is run andContinue Reading
Pestilence Vol 1
Roderick is the leader of the Fiat Lux, the fighting arm of the Catholic Church in 1347. The Fiat Luz is tasked with taking the Pope to a safe house in England from his residence in the French countryside. The world is in the middle of the plague of theContinue Reading
Look for Me
Boston Sergeant D.D. Warren and her partner Phil are back at work in this excellent addition to the series. A family of four are shot in their home while their teenage daughter is walking their dogs. D.D. and Phil are called in to investigate. Sixteen-year-old Roxanna never returns to theContinue Reading
Seven Dead
Seven Dead has a great premise that is not followed by a good story. A burglar finds a supposedly empty house filled with seven emaciated dead bodies. The room the bodies were in was locked from the outside with the window shutters nailed shut. An old cricket ball is foundContinue Reading
Clutter Intervention: How Your Stuff Is Keeping You Stuck
Millennial new age look at how to clear the clutter from your life. There are some practical clutter removal tips scattered throughout Clutter Intervention: remove the easy stuff first, declutter fast to keep your energy high, and make a prioritized to do list of next steps. However, the majority ofContinue Reading
Pretty Girls Dancing
The underlying family dynamics of missing children wrapped within a compelling police procedural. Pretty Girls Dancing tells the stories of two families that share the tragedy of a missing teenaged daughter. When Kelsey disappeared seven years ago her family was distraught. Now Kelsey’s father has moved on but her mother,Continue Reading
Start a Successful Business
Good outline of the steps to start a new business. Start a Successful Business was written by the reporters of Inc. magazine and published by the American Management Association. It clearly states the steps needed to start a new business. Beginning with the big idea moving through business strategy andContinue Reading
Souvenir
Everyone has at least one souvenir sitting on a shelf or hanging on a wall. Why do we buy them? What do they represent? How did the practice start? All these questions and more are answered in this cute little information-packed book. There are three types of souvenirs discussed inContinue Reading
Great Alone
“In Alaska you can make one mistake. One. The second one will kill you.” It’s 1974 and the world is imploding. Watergate. Vietnam. Black panthers. Gas shortages. Protests. Revolutionaries. Kidnappings. Serial Killers. After receiving an unexpected inheritance, thirteen year old Leni and her parents, Cora and Ernt, move toContinue Reading
Curses, Boiled Again!
Curses, Boiled Again! is a great old fashioned small town cozy mystery. Allie is a ballerina in Boston who recently broke her foot. While recuperating, she is helping her Aunt Gully with her lobster shack in New England. As the book opens, Aunt Gully is appearing on a YUM networkContinue Reading
Anatomy of a Scandal
In Anatomy of a Scandal, a plodding pace and unsympathetic characters ruin a timely high-concept plot. Anatomy of a Scandal details what happens to supporting players when someone is accused of a sexual assault that may or may not be consensual. It is set in the British government. The bookContinue Reading
Need to Know
While doing your job as a CIA Analyst, you find something that will rip your family apart. Do you reveal it to your superiors? Vivian is a counterintelligence agent with the CIA. While employed, she developed a new program to find Russian sleeper cells inside the United States. She isContinue Reading
Watch Me
When does love and attraction turn into obsession? Sam Grist is a college student in Kate Youngblood’s writing workshop. Kate is impressed with his writing style. She is also feeling a “strong river current” pulling her towards him. However, Kate is hoping to get tenure. Starting an affair with aContinue Reading
Smoke City
Have you ever thought, “Every plot has already been used so what’s the point in reading (or writing) another”? If so, Smoke City is going to surprise you. No book or movie is anywhere near its plot for imagination and creativity. Smoke City is a captivating genre-smashing novel. Here areContinue Reading
Lee Hammond’s All New Big Book of Drawing
Really two books in one, this book includes a full book on graphite pencil drawing and a second on drawing using colored pencils. Only requiring pencils, paper, erasers, blending tortillions and stumps plus spray fixative, the author’s technique creates well shaped images that appear 3-D. The book begins simply withContinue Reading