Owl Be Home for Christmas
Meg is helping her Grandfather run Owl Fest 2019 at the Caerphilly Inn at Christmas. When its 200 ornithologist guests are stranded by a snowstorm, one of the most cantankerous and least-loved professors is killed. Time for Meg to step in, with help of her extensive family, to solve theContinue Reading
Life and Death of Toyo Harada
Toyo Harada was nine when his world in Hiroshima Japan was blown apart by an atom bomb. His father died during the war and his mother died in the bombing. Harada was somehow saved. But he came back changed in the Life and Death of Toyo Harada. Harada has newContinue Reading
Crack
It was the eighties and everything was about making money. Reaganomics gave the promise that everyone could be rich with some smarts and initiative. So what were poor African-Americans using as their method to achieve this American Dream? Crack. With a 40% unemployment rate for African-American teenagers in 1984, thereContinue Reading
The Man that got Away
You don’t have to have lived in the 1950s to enjoy The Man that got Away. However, it is eminently easier to understand if you’re from England. There is a murder, a con man, and a criminal mastermind in Brighton, a beach town on the English coast in1957. Only youngContinue Reading
Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols
The game is afoot in the excellent Sherlock Holmes tale of spies and revolution, the Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols. Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft enlists Holmes’ help with a mysterious French manuscript. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is ostensibly a book recording a conference of Jews describingContinue Reading
Molded 4 Murder
Molded 4 Murder (Sophie Kimball Mystery) by J.C. Eaton My Review When an acclaimed local potter is killed by suffocation, he is truly Molded 4 Murder. In Glendale Arizona, Phee is a bookkeeper at Williams Investigations, a private detective firm. One day two acquaintances come in asking for Phee’s help.Continue Reading
Best of Cryptograms
Scientific studies have shown that exercising your mind will keep you mentally young. The Best of Cryptograms is conveniently large-print for those of us getting older, which is all of us if you think about it. The large-print is also double spaced giving you plenty of room to write twoContinue Reading
Viola Valentine Mysteries Spotlight
Here is a quick look at the paranormal cozy mysteries featuring Viola Valentine A Ghost of a Chance A Viola Valentine Mystery Book 1 by Cherie Claire Genre: Paranormal Mystery From award-winning novelist Cherie Claire comes a new paranormal mystery series. They say there are blessings from Hurricane Katrina. ForContinue Reading
Art of Reading Minds
“All our thoughts [are] reflected in our bodies; the reverse is true as well.”—from the Art of Reading Minds. Reading minds is achieved by reading body language—no New Age mumbo-jumbo is necessary. This book can make you a body language expert. “You already do it, but you could do itContinue Reading
Better Watch Out Guest Post
Better Watch Out (A Merry & Bright Handcrafted Mystery) by Christina Freeburn Author Guest Post Favorite Holiday Reads By Christina Freeburn It’s that time of the year, where I start making my list and checking it twice for the newly released and new-to-me holiday books. From November 1 until JanuaryContinue Reading
My Creative Space
What if I told you there was a way to stimulate your creativity? In My Creative Space, the author does just that with 48 ways to enhance yourself or your environment to encourage creativity. My Creative Space explains how to make your home or office a space that encourages imaginationContinue Reading
Read and Buried Character Guest Post
Read and Buried: A Lighthouse Library Mystery by Eva Gates Character Guest Post Into the Center of the Earth By Lucy Richardson from the Lighthouse Library Series by Eva Gates My employment contract says “other duties as assigned”. I guess descending toward the center of the earth qualifies. Although I’dContinue Reading
Read and Buried
“Don’t worry. I promise to stay completely out of it this time.” are the last words spoken by Assistant Librarian Lucy in Read and Buried before she gets involved up to her neck in the mystery and murder. The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library is being renovated to shore up itsContinue Reading
Before the Devil Fell
When Professor Will’s mother, Abigail, falls down her back steps and into a coma, he is forced to travel back to his small hometown in Before the Devil Fell. The village that Will grew up in is full of secrets. Were Abigail’s friends from his childhood doing something more sinisterContinue Reading
Revenge
Detective Inspector Jemina Huxley is having problems with fertility and possibly her marriage while also investigating a body dump site in Revenge. Called to investigate a body buried on a rural farming estate, Jemina has many personal issues to overcome. She can’t get pregnant. Her partner is a disheveled newContinue Reading
Follow the Golden Brick Road
If you want to Follow the Golden Brick Road…to financial freedom, the author states real estate is the way to go. Less risky than starting your own business or playing the stock market, real estate allows smart investors to win whether the economy is up or down. But it doesContinue Reading