Primetimer Guide to Streaming TV
I confess that I am fascinated by, and a bit addicted to, streaming TV. I have every popular service as well as a few obscure ones like Britbox and Wondrium. However, I still find myself frequently at a loss to find a great show to watch. I hate to complainContinue Reading
Magpie
In Magpie, Marisa and Jake meet and quickly move in together. They try immediately to have a child. When Marisa becomes pregnant, the couple rent a room to Kate to make ends meet. Marisa feels that Kate is overly familiar with Jake. Is it just the pregnancy hormones making MarisaContinue Reading
The Wrong Victim
FBI Special Agent Matt Costas is head of the Bureau’s Mobile Response Team. The Team is a multi-agency unit that rushes to the scenes of crimes. This time, nine people are dead after a bomb explodes aboard a charter boat cruise off the San Juan Islands of Washington state. TheContinue Reading
How to Tell a Story
I have a nasty little secret (for a book review blogger). I don’t like to read book blurbs. It spoils the surprise for me. Because of this possible flaw, How to Tell a Story was not what I expected. It is specifically discussing how to prepare to tell a trueContinue Reading
Knit or Dye Trying Guest Post and Giveway
Author Guest Post  What makes a good murder victim? Some questions only get asked in certain professions. I confess (pun intended), that my work as a mystery author often leads me to ask some…unusual…questions. How long do certain toxic gasses need to take effect? If you only intended to harmContinue Reading
Diablo Mesa
In Diablo Mesa, archeologist Nora Kelly is tricked into working on a project at the site of the Roswell Incident in 1947—even though she doesn’t believe in extraterrestrials. While excavating, Nora’s team discovers the bodies of a man and a woman that appear to date from the 1940s. In addition,Continue Reading
Poppy Harmon and the Backstabbing Bachelor
Sixty-something Poppy runs the Desert Flowers Detective Agency in Palm Springs along with Violet, Iris, and out-of-work actor Matt. Poppy was a popular television actress in the 1980s. In Poppy Harmon and the Backstabbing Bachelor, Poppy goes undercover trying to catch a thieving in-home elder care assistant. Poppy has aContinue Reading
Murder Next Door Review and Giveaway
My Review Psychics, missing persons, witches, corpses, and vampires? Redemption, Wisconsin, is my kind of town! Charlie runs a tea and tincture service from her house. One of her customers, eighty-year-old retired schoolteacher Mildred, is concerned about her neighbor. It seems Jonas has taken a month-long vacation without telling her.Continue Reading
Free
600,000 people get released from jails and prisons each year. What happens to these people? While 68% return to incarceration within three years, what obstacles did the remaining 32% successfully hurdle to achieve real freedom? Free uses the stories of six former prisoners to show the challenges that reentry toContinue Reading
Apartment Kitchen Gardening
So, you decided to begin a garden. But you live in a place with no yard or even a balcony? Plus, money is tight right now? No problem with Apartment Kitchen Gardening by your side. This book feels like your best friend is speaking directly to you about how toContinue Reading
The Stretcher Bearers
In October 1918, Private Maxwell is running from a bomb during World War I. In flashbacks, it is shown how Maxwell got there as one of The Stretcher Bearers in the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. The book puts the reader directly in the action as a stretcher bearer in WWI.Continue Reading
Mining for Murder Tour Review and Giveaway
My Review This time it’s personal! South Dakota gift shop owner, Zo, is trying to locate a missing one-of-a-kind book while solving a murder in Mining for Murder. The missing book may have clues to the mother that abandoned Zo as a baby at the town police station. It alsoContinue Reading
The Book of Pslams
What if God was not the benevolent, and vengeful, God of the Bible? What if he had job burnout and a sarcastic sense of humor? You are about to find out in The Book of Pslams. God has already written down everything about how mankind can live a good life.Continue Reading
The Investigator
The author of the Prey series and Virgil Flowers novels lets another Davenport out into the world. Letty Davenport gets her turn at a series in The Investigator. Letty is just out of college and bored in her job working for US Senator Chris Colles. He offers Letty a chanceContinue Reading
Bountiful Garden
In Bountiful Garden, six teenage scientists awaken ten years early from their cryostasis. They have been selected by Earth to begin a new civilization on a planet far away. Their ship is trapped above an unknown planet. The team splits up with three exploring the planet and three attempting toContinue Reading
The Candy House
The Candy House is another mind-altering reading experience from the author of A Visit From the Goon Squad. An businessman/inventor offers a way to store your experiences including what everyone surrounding you felt about it (as long as you share your memories for all the world to see). It isContinue Reading