Seek You
Using ham radio, television laugh tracks, and pop culture as examples, Seek You attempts to explain how loneliness became so widespread in our society. “The laugh track of each show was a lesson in what I was supposed to feel and know, and a promise for something I could somedayContinue Reading
The Ghoul Next Door
Middle grader Grey has a secret friend. Sure, Lavinia lives underground and is The Ghoul Next Door in a graveyard, but ghouls just want to have fun, right? What middle-grader wouldn’t want to join Grey on the adventure of a lifetime? He must join Lavinia to search the hidden undergroundContinue Reading
Dog Eat Dog
Dog Eat Dog is the 23rd entry in the Andy Carpenter dog-oriented legal thriller series. And it’s a humdinger! A man on the street is beating his pug. Andy, his wife Laurie and their son Ricky are across the street walking their two dogs, Tara and Sebastian. Laurie rushes acrossContinue Reading
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Regardless of where you are reading this paragraph, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. It’s just a fact of life. Death is enviable. However, most people don’t think about it much—if at all. Gilda is different. She thinks about death obsessively. Well, whenever she is not worrying aboutContinue Reading
Fallen
Even the Amish have secrets! Ride along with Sheriff Kate Burkholder as she chases a vicious murderer in a rural Ohio town in Fallen. Rachel was Amish. She was also recently alive. But after returning to her hometown, she was beaten to death in her motel room. “Painters Mill wasContinue Reading
Falling
In Falling, you are a commercial airline pilot with an awful choice to make. “It’s simple. Crash your plane, or I kill your family. The choice is yours.” On a flight from Los Angeles to New York City, there are so many targets a plane can crash into. You tryContinue Reading
The Grandmother Plot
Freddy is a stoner. But he loves his grandmother very much. Unfortunately, dementia has its hold on her so tightly that Freddy has to put her in a memory care home. Despite being busy glass-blowing beads and pot pipes, Freddy visits his grandmother frequently. But Freddy has his own problemsContinue Reading
The Bucket List
In The Bucket List, undercover FBI agent, John Adderley, is put into the witness protection program in his hometown in Sweden. He needs to return to the US to testify once the drug cartel’s trial begins. Meanwhile, he investigates a ten-year-old Swedish cold case where the body of a heiress,Continue Reading
Moriarty the Patriot Vol 4
Moriarty the Patriot Vol 4 is more James Bond than Sherlock Holmes. It’s all very spy vs. spy. Moran steps up to lead the mission. There is even a Miss Moniepeny, a secretary, who joins Moran on his MI6 mission to stop the Afghan War. And there is Que, whoContinue Reading
Undead Unluck Vol 2
Fuuko Izumi, nicknamed Unluck, has the power of unluck. Anyone who touches her skin-to-skin dies. In the last volume, she meets the immortal Undead and promptly names him Andy. They decide to team up. In Undead Unluck Vol 2, the duo finds a group of fellow negators. But to join,Continue Reading
The Keepers
Mace Reid is a police consultant. He brings his trained dogs to sniff out the dead at crime scenes near Chicago. But one of his dogs, Vira, can also sniff out the murderer. In the first book of the series, The Finders, that worked out great. However, in The Keepers,Continue Reading
Beauty Expos are Murder
Poppy has chosen Gia. But now his wife Alex, is back to reclaim him and their son, Henry. Poppy still has feelings for Gia. But how can she get over the fact that he didn’t tell her he was still married. In the meantime, Gia and Poppy are vendors ofContinue Reading
Boost Your Balance
Boost Your Balance is filled with non-intimidating exercises to increase people’s strength and flexibility as well as their balance. The book contains 67 exercises though some have variations to make them more difficult as your fitness improves. Thirty-one are for flexibility. Twenty are for strength. Sixteen are for balance. TheContinue Reading
The Third Grave
After an eight-year break, The Third Grave is the fourth thriller in the Savannah series. Three sisters disappear together twenty years ago. Their brother is suspected but has an alibi. No one is charged. A treasure hunter finds three graves and two skeletons in a hidden basement room in aContinue Reading
Bad Moon Rising
Sheriff Heidi Kick has a lot on her plate. A record heat wave is killing the elderly in her rural Wisconsin town. A serial killer is killing the homeless. And local businessman, Barry Rickreiner, is running a vicious campaign against Heidi for Sheriff. He is blaming her for everything thatContinue Reading
Survive the Night
Survive the Night is the latest thriller from superstar author, Riley Sagar. Unfortunately, it was a disappointment compared to his previous books. Even though the song, Stupid Girl by Garbage, didn’t come out until 5 years after the book’s time period of 1991, I couldn’t help but hear it buzzingContinue Reading