Sundial
Chilling! Thrilling! Sundial is a genuinely frightening tale of a family gone horribly wrong. If everyone around you is mad, is the best response to go mad yourself? Rob is worried. Her daughter, Callie, is acting strangely. Her husband, Irving, is cheating on her…again. Unfortunately, Rob can’t divorce Irving becauseContinue Reading
Wedding Bell Blues
Jill is the owner of Coffee, Books, and More in the small coastal California tourist town, South Cove. She is the new fiancée of the town’s police chief, Greg. Jill also has a habit of finding dead bodies. In Wedding Bell Blues, Jill finds the new owner of Exquisite GownsContinue Reading
The Night Shift
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Ella is in the bathroom after working The Night Shift at a New Jersey Blockbuster Video store. When she comes out, the rest of the staff is dead. She is left for dead but recovers. Fifteen years later, a similar event occurs as an iceContinue Reading
Girl on Fire
In the new graphic novel Girl on Fire, Lolo is fourteen but already in tenth grade with her older brother, James. Their father, Billy Wright, owns his own moving company. Their grandmother, Vivian, lives with them in the projects. High school in the inner city is tough on Lolo. SheContinue Reading
Bone Deep
When investigating a wife’s murder, police investigators always look at the husband first. Bone Deep tells the true story of what happens when that assumption is incorrect—but the husband is convicted of murder anyway. Yes, the Russ Faria case of injustice really happened. And yes, it is the subject ofContinue Reading
The Paradox Hotel
The Paradox Hotel sits near the world’s only time travel airport. The uber-rich can vacation in ancient Egypt or Renaissance Italy. The TEA ensure that nothing crucial is changed in the past by the bumbling tourists or stealthy smugglers. January was a crack agent in the TEA. Unfortunately, she gotContinue Reading
Batten Down the Belfry
Batten Down the Belfry combines two of my favorite things to do: read cozy mysteries and watch house flipping shows. Whitney and her cousin Buck flip unusual properties. This time they buy an abandoned church and parsonage, which they plan to make an entertainment venue and restaurant, respectively. Not onlyContinue Reading
Eating Salad Drunk
Eating Salad Drunk is a bunch of haikus by comedians that you have probably never heard of. The book proves two things. Haikus are more fun to write than to read, and Comedians are no better than anyone else in writing humorous ones. I’m disappointed. I had high hopes forContinue Reading
The End of Getting Lost
Gina and Duncan are a newlywed couple on a belated honeymoon touring Europe. Gina is recovering her memories after an accident. The reader soon suspects that Duncan is hiding something from Gina. What can it be? How will Gina respond if the truth is revealed? The answers lie in theContinue Reading
A Killer Sundae Tour Review and Giveaway
My Review In A Killer Sundae, Win, the owner of the Crewse Creamery ice cream parlor, has a new food truck. Her time at the local Harvest Time Festival is well spent selling ice cream until she is accused of murder by nut. It seems her frenemy and television reporter,Continue Reading
Tour Spotlight and Giveaway A Dash of Death
A Houston reporter-turned-mixologist mixes it up with murder in this series debut from Michelle Hillen Klump, superbly catering to fans of Diane Mott Davidson and Lee Hollis. Bad news for Samantha Warren: The plucky Houston, Texas, reporter lost her job and her fiancé in rapid succession. But Sam has aContinue Reading
Mickey7
I read science fiction for its great and unexpected ideas. While you know what you will encounter in a mystery or romance, reading science fiction is more like a leap into space with no memory of putting on a bungie cord. Mickey7 contains just that type of big idea. TheContinue Reading
The Art of Papercraft
If you’re feeling crafty (in a good way), The Art of Papercraft will give you some relatively inexpensive paper crafting ideas. From an Origami Candy Dish to wall hangings, this book has forty different projects using various techniques. It even teaches how to make the paper itself. The instructions areContinue Reading
The Wedding Murders
If you remember 1990s boy bands with fondness, don’t miss The Wedding Murders. Secrets abound at the present-day wedding of a member of a 90s boy band. At its heart is the mystery of why the band broke up so many years ago. Then, the killings begin. The Wedding MurdersContinue Reading
Huh? Why? and Punch Tour Review and Giveaway
My Review Software engineer Marty, his two college-aged children, his sister Laney, her two young daughters, his girlfriend Meghan, his neighbor Mrs. Kim, and Laney’s family dog Buddy are on vacation in Hawaii. But it’s not much of a vacation for Marty as he is pushed into helping the policeContinue Reading
This Way to the Universe
Curious about physics but hate all the math? Same here. This Way to the Universe provides a dense and diverse look into the subject written in plain English, mostly. From quantum physics to astrophysics, most questions are answered here. However, don’t expect an easy read. I would describe it asContinue Reading