Seven strangers find themselves alone on Earth. The Apocalypse Seven must figure out what happened to everyone else. In addition, they need to decide how to proceed from here. I love the idea of this book much better than the execution itself. In the beginning, I enjoyed hunting for cluesContinue Reading
Bristol and her bomb-sniffing dog, Toby, must stop an environmental terrorist from blowing up several Minneapolis dams in Rising Danger. She must also grapple with working with her ex-boyfriend, Rem. Memories of her own losses during Hurricane Katrina complicate her hunt for the killer. Hunting for the bombs and survivorsContinue Reading
Delta Dawn is The Photographer. She specializes in children’s birthday parties. Rich children. One day, she works for the Straubs. She envies their lifestyle. So, she begins integrating herself into their life. First, by last-minute babysitting of their only child, Natalie. Then, by photoshopping herself into intimate pictures with FritzContinue Reading
“I was shot in the back at close range by a 32-caliber handgun yet did not die, at least not permanently. I did not see who shot me. I did not know why I was shot.”—from What Doesn’t Kill Us This is the story of how the friends of McKenzieContinue Reading
I guarantee that my synopsis below of the plot of The Audacity of Sara Grayson doesn’t do the book justice. I absolutely adored this book! It was much more than the sum of its parts. It gave me the same good feelings as The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. ThoughContinue Reading
The Home Sick Pilots, a punk band in 1994, makes a fatal mistake by planning on hosting a gig at the local haunted house. The female guitarist, Ami, goes in first by herself and doesn’t come back out. Her bandmates, Rip and Buzz, try to find her. But the houseContinue Reading
The Decagon House Murders is an homage to Agatha Christie’s great mystery, And Then There Were None. Written in the 1980s, it triggered a resurgence in traditional mysteries in Japan. So, does it still work for modern readers? The answer is yes and no. The pacing is excruciatingly slow. Admittedly,Continue Reading
Author’s Guest Post I’m a Twin – But You Probably Wouldn’t Realize it! by Sarah Blair (and Debra H. Goldstein) My mother, Maybelle, as she prefers to be called, sometimes jokes that rather than giving birth to two babies a few minutes apart, she had a litter. That’s because myContinue Reading
Author Guest Post SUMMER FUN AND FESTIVALS IN WISCONSIN BEYOND A REASONABLE DONUT starts during a special festival on Friday the thirteenth—the Faker’s Dozen Carnival. There will be rides, games, buskers, fair foods, and a tent dedicated to tempting good and bad luck. Emily Westhill, one of the proprietors ofContinue Reading