White Ivy
Ivy is a first generation Chinese immigrant who has totally internalized the American Dream of being in the top 1% regardless of the cost. It fact, Ivy is trying to be what she thinks rich, white Gideon wants in a wife by becoming White Ivy. The pacing is more atContinue Reading
A Galway Epiphany
Jack Taylor is trying to escape his violent past by moving to the Irish countryside. But…just when he thought he was out, they drag him back in. After being hit by a truck, he lapses into a coma. When he awakens without a scratch, the locals think it is AContinue Reading
Murder in the Piazza Spotlight
Murder in the Piazza: A Maggie White Mystery by Jen Collins Moore About Murder in the Piazza Murder in the Piazza: A Maggie White Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Publisher: Level Best Books (September 22, 2020) Paperback: 278 pages ISBN-10: 1947915533 ISBN-13: 978-1947915534 Digital ASIN: B08FBL9GV8 Maggie White, aContinue Reading
Anonymous: A Madison Kelly Mystery Spotlight
Author Guest Post The Real-Life Serial Killer Behind the Thrilling New Mystery ANONYMOUS Elizabeth Breck I’ve been asked where I got the idea to write about a female private investigator, living at the beach, who becomes the obsession of a serial killer after tweeting about him. Because it happened toContinue Reading
Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines Review and Giveaway
My Review Mimi Lee is once again forced to investigate a murder in Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines. Luckily, she has her sassy, and talking (at least in Mimi’s head), cat Marshmallow to help. Detective Brown has Mimi’s sister, Alice, in his sights as his number one suspect inContinue Reading
The Dirty South
It’s 1997. Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker is sitting in an Arkansas jail in The Dirty South. Charlie is heartbroken over the recent murder of his wife and child while searching for their killer. In the Arkansas town of Cargill, someone is killing and mutilating young African-American girls. Charlie hasContinue Reading
Love Her Madly
Love Her Madly is (a) a famous Doors’ song, (b) the title of a new book about The Doors’ front man Jim Morrison, (c) the feeling of the book’s author towards Jim’s girlfriend Mary, or (d) all of the above. The answer is, of course, d. While Wikipedia may notContinue Reading
A Page Marked for Murder
In A Page Marked for Murder, Addie is the owner of the Beyond the Page bookshop. It is time for the town’s Fire and Ice Festival to celebrate taking down Christmas trees after the holidays. It has an ice carving festival and a Christmas tree bonfire on the beach. However,Continue Reading
Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Visual Puzzles
Do you do well on the IQ test questions that are picking the correct unfolded box? If so, you are in luck! Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Visual Puzzles has a hundred visual puzzles that use the same skill, the ability to move images around in your mind’s eye. I love theContinue Reading
Tell Me My Name
Ellie and Neil are finally getting some alone time after dropping their two children off at summer camp. Ellie chases their dog into the neighbor’s yard and accidentally invites the neighbor, Jake, for dinner. Two days later, Jake has kidnapped them both. Jake has three rules for Ellie…but only theContinue Reading
The Hollow Places
Finally I found the perfect creepy and atmospheric book I’ve been looking for all week. The Hollow Places updates Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows, published in 1907, for modern readers. “Pray They Are Hungry” Kara, nicknamed Carrot, moves in with her uncle Earl in his taxidermy-filled Wonder Museum. She is helpingContinue Reading
The Witch and the Beast 1
It’s Halloween and I’m ready for something scary! The Witch and the Beast 1 does have a witch, more than 1 beast, & a weirdo who carries a coffin on his back like a backpack. However, it unfortunately failed horribly with the scary heebie jeebies. The first witch we meet,Continue Reading
Ghost Towns of Route 66
From Illinois to California, the Ghost Towns of Route 66 span the entire left half of the United States. With plenty of pictures, this book emphasizes the chutzpah of the past facing the modernization of the future. Realistically, how would the country move all the trucks of food and otherContinue Reading
Enchanted New York
There are scores of books about New York City. But Enchanted New York takes us on a deeper journey into its magical past of Freemasons, occultists and seers. Beginning with Washington’s inauguration, the book charts a real journey down Broadway and forward in time. Even though travel is discouraged rightContinue Reading
Candy Cane Crime
I love the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series and Candy Cane Crime is no exception. Bailey is in NYC working on her cable show. So Charlotte is the narrator of this cute love story. When Charlotte volunteers to collect and decorate Christmas notes with candy canes, she never expects toContinue Reading
Cold as Ice
FBI Agent Lucy’s husband is arrested for murder in Cold as Ice, the seventeenth book in the series. Lucy begins to think it’s personal when others close to her life start coming up missing or arrested on unlikely charges. Her initial thought is that it is the sociopath, Elise, whoContinue Reading