The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts is another great Marlow Murder Club Mystery. Get ready to challenge your armchair detecting skills! Minor celebrities are dropping like flies in Marlow! Judith, Suzie, and Becks investigate, as usual, but don’t have the police’s support this time around. With plenty of twists andContinue Reading
Pretty Dead Things
Small town Texas beauty pageants. Can anything be more dramatic? Or fun? Well, fun for most—not so much for the dead bodies piling up. During this one, murders occur and blackouts happen. Mysteries and rivalries thought long dead arise. It is just another day in Texas with its Pretty DeadContinue Reading
Dead Men Don’t Play Fetch
Dead Men Don’t Play Fetch is another fine entry in the Andy Carpenter cozy mystery series. Andy really wants to retire from his defense attorney practice. But just when he thought he was out, they pull him back in. A homeless vet staying in a rehab facility is accused ofContinue Reading
Golden Age Suspense Stories
Adventure to an Indonesian rubber plantation and search for an escaped murderer. Or stay local in the lunchroom of a NYC diner in the 1950s. Either way, adventures await in Golden Age Suspense Stories, the latest Otto Penzler collection of vintage short stories. This collection includes fifteen stories with mostContinue Reading
Sweet Spot
Agatha Christie mysteries are my Sweet Spot. This book takes the tropes from those plots and subverts them for its own ends. It is a very original way to honor Dame Agatha, while winking steadily at the reader from beyond the fourth wall. Belle is a ghostwriter hired to assistContinue Reading
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is the latest novel by the best-selling author Paul Tremblay. Slacker gamer Julia gets a job through her mostly estranged corporate bigwig mother to take a gentleman on a cross country airplane ride. Unfortunately, the gentlemen has some issues making the job much moreContinue Reading
Come Undone
Is your favorite show Bling Empire on Netflix? Did you watch every episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians the minute it aired? How about Hulu’s The Kardashians show? If so, you will enjoy the insufferable human beings that populate Come Undone. I enjoyed reading the author’s previous book, FreshContinue Reading
Whose Body in the Library
In Whose Body in the Library, Nichelle is the new librarian at the lighthouse library on the shores of the Outer Banks. This is her first job after graduating with a library science degree after a late career change. On the morning of her first day, she finds a bodyContinue Reading
Backstabbers
Childhood bffs Zoe, Stef and Jade are backpacking along a rural trail listening to a podcast in Backstabbers. The podcast describes the still uncaught serial killer who mysteriously stopped rampaging along the same trail many years ago. Little do they know their friendships and very lives will be soon tested.Continue Reading
New Garden Designer’s Handbook
If you have ever watched an HGTV show and wondered how the landscapers decide on a garden design, the New Garden Designer’s Handbook provides the answer. In the book, design of a complete back or front yard is discussed. Landform, structures and plants are the elements described throughout the book.Continue Reading
Stuart Woods’ Deep Water
Stuart Woods’ Deep Water stars Stone Barrington, millionaire lawyer and playboy. However, in this installment, he is much less arrogant than in previous books. He is still richer and smarter, in his mind at least, than everyone else in the room. But he doesn’t shove it down everyone’s throats inContinue Reading
Murder by Design
Edison Bixby has been shot in the face. Now he can’t keep any unkind thoughts in his head but instead spews them out. His insurance investigator boss hires down-on-his-luck actor, Wally Nash, to smooth over any awkward moments. For Edison is rude but a fantastic investigator. His cases are solvedContinue Reading
The Let That Sh t Go Guide to Life
If you always wanted a friend who would give you the blunt unvarnished truth about your life with no polite BS overlay, you need to read The Let That Sh t Go Guide to Life. From relationships, toxic or affirming, to that horrible inner voice keeping you down, this bookContinue Reading
Ode to the Bones
Sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her best friend Tinkie are back detecting in Ode to the Bones. A farmer is missing. Could Tinkie’s husband initiating foreclosure proceedings on his family farm be the reason? Could his rumored affair with a local preacher’s wife be behind his disappearance?Continue Reading
Essential Food Preserving
If you have a big pile of just harvested, or bought at a terrific sale, foodstuffs, Essential Food Preserving is your one-stop shop for every way to preserve it. Freezing, canning, fermenting, preserving, drying and smoking are just a few of the ways to save your food for later consumptionContinue Reading
The Dorians
The Dorians are offered the chance of a lifetime. Be part of a radical experiment to reverse the aging process. Six of the seven accept. But you should always be careful of what you wish for. Be very careful… The less you know going into this book the better. However,Continue Reading