Hot to Trot
In Hot to Trot, Agatha’s friend and occasional lover, Sir Charles, is marrying a hideous, but rich, woman named Mary. Agatha is trying to figure out why. Raisin Investigations is also working on a scandalous divorce case. Best of all, Agatha is rekindling her romance with her ex-husband, James. WhenContinue Reading
Gray’s Anatomy Puzzle Book
The Gray’s Anatomy Puzzle Book has 36 chapters. Each covers all the bones and organs in a human as well as the assorted body systems. There are two to three puzzles per chapter. The puzzles include all the major puzzles types from word circles to Sudoku. The illustrations are excellentContinue Reading
One of Our Own
One of Our Own follows police consultant, Gregor. A trash bag falls out of an unmarked van in Philadelphia’s predominately Armenian neighborhood. Inside is a woman in a coma. When the police arrive at her home, they find her dead super locked inside. Who were the woman’s kidnappers and whyContinue Reading
Everything Plant-based Meal Prep Cookbook
With hundreds of recipes, the Everything Plant-based Meal Prep Cookbook has you covered. There are twenty-five salad recipes alone! The book doesn’t waste a thing. Who knew that the water in a can of chickpeas had a name? Aguafaba. The Beet Hummus was innovative and tasty too! I did feelContinue Reading
The Lady Upstairs
Jo and Lou are modern-day grifters. Blackmailing men for their sexual exploits has never been easier during the #metoo movement. But Jo owes The Lady Upstairs a debt for a previous scam that went wrong. With the due date approaching, Jo begins to wonder about what happened to the previousContinue Reading
The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook
Now that we are all stuck at home again why not bring the Disney magic to your kitchen! The 100 recipes shown in The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook are separated by park. This proves what I always suspected. Disneyland, the original park, has the least innovative food of all theContinue Reading
The Mutant Project
With the first genetically modified babies born in October 2018 in China, The Mutant Project has officially begun. Of course, the doctor involved was ultimately sentenced to a three-year prison term. But once the genie is out of his bottle, it’s impossible to coax him back in. It turns outContinue Reading
The Madness of Mercury Guest Post and Giveaway
Author’s Guest Post The Kidnapping of Nellie DiMaggio I’m always surfing the web or checking out news stories for odd bits of history or interesting locations to use in the Zodiac Mysteries. You just never know where you’ll find a perfect setting or plot for a murder mystery. My SanContinue Reading
Novel Advice
I love the premise of Novel Advice. “I’ll be the agony aunt for the unreal. You can call me Aunt Antigone.” The book writes Dear Abby letters from the characters of most classic fiction and a few modern books too. Then the book’s author answers them. For example, Aunt AntigoneContinue Reading
Spawning Suspicion Guest Post and Giveaway
Author Guest Post Other Duties As Assigned By Maggie Toussaint Other duties as assigned is a phrase that most of us near the bottom of the employment ladder know very well. It means that your job involves more than what’s listed in the job description. This often translates into personalContinue Reading
Murder in Old Bombay
I can always tell when I genuinely love a book. I start to read it much slower—because I don’t want it to end. That is what unexpectedly happened to me while reading Murder in Old Bombay. It’s 1892 in India. Retired Captain James Agnihotri has been invalided out of theContinue Reading
The Arrest
The Arrest caused the world’s power grid to cease. No more cell phones, computers, cars, or even planes. It is 1700 again. When everything stops working, Journeyman and his sister Maddy get stranded at her organic farm in Maine. Little do they know, but their life is about to beContinue Reading
How Not to be OLD (even if you are)
If you are over 40, or the child of someone who is, How Not to be Old (even if you are) is hilarious (and maybe even familiar)! In the chapter about Venmo, “Of course cash still works, but the people who have cash these days are strippers, drug dealers, andContinue Reading
The Photography of Mauthausen
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp. The Photography of Mauthausen tells the story of Spanish prisoner and former newspaper photographer Francisco. Director of the Erkennungsdienst, Ricken, was an amateur photographer himself. He orders Francisco to assist him in photographing the inmate death scenes. And those scenes are horrific. Injecting gasolineContinue Reading
Murder by Milk Bottle
With all the mess going on right now in the world and in the White House, it is almost comforting to be hunting for a killer in 1957 Brighton, England. For three victims have been killed in an unusual way. In fact, it is Murder by Milk Bottle. Constable TwittenContinue Reading
Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine
Yum! Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine includes a comprehensive look into how a bread machine works before listing 100 recipes you can try at home. I moved into my current home over a decade ago. During the move, some items were lost. One was the recipe book thatContinue Reading