Exposed (Rosato & DiNunzio 5)
Not as good as I expected from this author. Bennie Rosato and Mary DiNunzio are law firm partners. Bennie handles the high profile clients. Mary has a large volume West Philly neighborhood practice. Mary’s childhood friend Simon is fired for his daughter’s large medical bills. He asks Mary for helpContinue Reading
Don’t Let Go
Don’t Let Go is another riveting psychological thriller by Mr. Coben! Nap lost his twin brother, Leo, and Leo’s girlfriend, Diana, one high school night to a train collision. The same night Nap’s girlfriend, Maura, disappeared. When Don’t Let Go begins, it is fifteen years later. Nap is a policeContinue Reading
Great Expectation: Manga Classics
The rich are different, and not better, than the poor. Charles Dickens classic novel, Great Expectations, is reformatted into a manga. The result is an excellent way to convince teens to read a classic tale. Great Expectations is the story of Pip, a pleasant helpful child, who is thrown intoContinue Reading
Bad Girl Gone
Great teen/young adult paranormal mystery perfect for fans of Beetlejuice and The Good Place. It was the worst possible day for Echo. She had 70s makeup and 80s hair. Oh, she was also in an open casket at her own funeral. Okay, maybe being murdered was worse. Sixteen year oldContinue Reading
Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way through Great Books
Great discussions of books and fantastic illustrations. I selected Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way Through Great Books for the recipes but I loved it for the stories about each book. Most of the recipes are way too advanced (or just too much work) for me. However, the storiesContinue Reading
Walking Dead Vol 26
Propels the plot forward significantly plus fantastic ending! The Walking Dead graphic novels must be read in order and to summarize any part of this plot will be SPOILERS for the previous volumes. So reader beware! Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown… Rick decided, after consulting with Negan,Continue Reading
Hounds of the Underworld
Great paranormal mystery set in near future New Zealand. Penny is a scientist who has just opened a her own business. Her first criminal case includes a missing person, a large pool of blood and a ceremonial bowl. Her brother, Matiu, is her driver in 2040s Auckland where pollution isContinue Reading
Heathen Vol 1
Heathen is a coming out story interwoven with Norse mythology. Heathen tells the story of Aydis, a Viking young woman who can fight as well as any male warrior. After kissing a girl (and liking it), her father is forced by the tribe’s elders to punish her. Aydis must marryContinue Reading
Nuclear Family: a TragicomicNovel in Letters
Hilarious novel about a family just like yours. Nuclear Family is a collection of letters and emails to Julie from her teenage years to her 30s from her loved ones. There are letters from her over serious father, her oversharing mother and her free-spirited sister. More unusual are letters fromContinue Reading
Holy Crap! The World is Ending!
Genre-bending sci-fi mythological humorous apocalyptical romance. Holy Crap! The World is Ending! has something for everyone. A woman meets her soulmate in a Barnes & Noble just as an asteroid is about to collide with Earth. There is something otherworldly about his looks but little does our heroine know. HeContinue Reading
Crime Scene (Clay Edison #1)
Innovative Detective in a good solid mystery. Crime Scene is the first book in a new series by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. It features sworn Coroner Division Deputy Clay Edison. Clay’s job is to investigate the scenes of deaths to determine the manner of death. There are only five choices:Continue Reading
Zombies: A Brief History of Decay
Interesting plot but illustrations are not easy to interpret. This is a graphic novel about a zombie apocalypse. I have read many books with this topic and 25 volumes of The Walking Dead graphic novels previously so I wasn’t expecting much innovation. However, this book’s plot surprised me withContinue Reading
Stock the Crock
Good variety of recipes that can be cooked in either a crockpot or Instant Pot. This cookbook has 100 crockpot recipes and each have many variations for gluten-free, paleo, ‘picky eaters’ (i.e. less spicy) or vegan diets. The accompanying photographs look scrumptious. There are many unusual recipes including tomatoContinue Reading
Magpie Murders
Two Fantastic Mysteries in One Book. I absolutely loved this book. It starts with an editor reading the latest mystery written by their best selling author. The manuscript is written in the style of Agatha Christie’s books. It is set in a small English village where everyone is a suspectContinue Reading
Arrowood
More like Dickens than Sherlock Holmes. Arrowood is a private investigator in Victorian London. He is jealous of his rival, Sherlock Holmes, who gets all the rich clients while he is stuck with London’s less desirable denizens. His latest client is looking for her brother, who disappeared while workingContinue Reading
Killing is My Business
If the films Metropolis and The Big Sleep had a baby, it would look just like this book’s plot. Ray Electromatic, the last robot in a world that used to be full of them, was programmed to be a private investigator…but killing pays better. His handler, a computer named Ada,Continue Reading