In Misfortune Cookie, Lana is now the manager of her family’s noodle house in Cleveland, Ohio. She and her sister, Anna May, go to a restaurant convention in Irvine, California. They are also visiting their Aunt Grace, who lives nearby. During the conference, Lana overhears an altercation between a fortuneContinue Reading
The Rachel Incident is a great character-driven novel about adulting in Cork, Ireland during the Great Recession. Rachel meets James while working at the same bookstore. In the way of twenty-year-olds, they are quickly best friends and move in together. James is gay but hasn’t come out yet. He helpsContinue Reading
In Misfortune Cookie, Lana is now the manager of her family’s noodle house in Cleveland, Ohio. She and her sister, Anna May, go to a restaurant convention in Irvine, California. They are also visiting their Aunt Grace, who lives nearby. During the conference, Lana overhears an altercation between a fortuneContinue Reading
A woman goes for her daily swim off the coast of a small island in Maine. When she doesn’t return, a search is conducted but she is never found. Did she run off? Was she fatally hit by one of the many fishing or pleasure boats nearby? Or is sheContinue Reading
How much do multi-level marketing (MLM) companies and cults have in common? It turns out a lot. Both use the BITE (behavior, information, thought and emotional control) method to entice and then entrap their members. Both groups shun former members. Despite the positive messages propagated by the companies. it isContinue Reading
Multiple times per day individuals encounter The Choice Point, “the exact moment, you decide to shift your attention away from an unwanted thought that might stop you from making a conscious choice to persevere in pursuing a goal (or not). It’s that moment when you say to yourself, ‘to continueContinue Reading
In Night Will Find You, Vivvy is an astronomer who has the sight just like her psychic mother. When her mother dies, she returns to her hometown to clean out her mother’s house. While there, she is asked by a high school and local police officer, Mike, to do someContinue Reading
Seven women all have a connection to Jamie. And one of them is his killer in Speak of the Devil. This book starts with a bang, when the seven women are lured to a hotel room where Jamie’s decapitated head awaits them. Now, they must race the police to discoverContinue Reading
Kitty is a lot of things. She is young, rich and beautiful. She is an influencer with over a million followers. And she knows How to Kill Men and Get Away With It. Not just any men…only those cads that treat women like dirt or worse. You know, like herContinue Reading
It is hard not to compare new science fiction plots to all that have gone before. On Earth as It Is on Television is much more about the characters’ individual reactions to the first alien arrival than humanity’s overall response to it. It reminded me of the beginning of IndependenceContinue Reading
You Can Trust Me is the ultimate beach read! It has the perfect plot. Two con women run into a rich and dangerous man, who has his own agenda. It includes a beautiful, but creepy, private island to up the atmosphere. The characters are rather one-dimensional, but that is commonContinue Reading
From the length of the subtitle on Murdle: Volume 1, “100 elementary to impossible mysteries to solve using logic, skill, and the power of deduction”, I was expecting 100 short stories like in Two-Minute Mysteries. Instead contains 100 increasingly difficult logic puzzles. When solving logic puzzles, a grid and pencilContinue Reading
“Nosey” Jodie Parker is now officially a (part-time) detective in the tiny English village of Penstowan on the Cornish coast. This puts her in the awkward position of working directly for her boyfriend, Nathan. Soon, a man found drowned in a water trough along with a missing mermaid statue beginContinue Reading
In Death Comes to Marlow, Judith is a free spirited 78-year-old, who creates crossword puzzles. She and her two younger besties, Suzie and Becks, also like solving mysteries. When rich Sir Peter calls Judith to invite her to his engagement party despite not knowing her, she feels compelled to attend.Continue Reading
Maeve Fly is the type of character that quickly divides readers into lovers and haters. Beware what is lurking behind a theme park princess’ facade! Maeve plays a Southern California theme park princess during the day. But at night she lets her freak flag fly in the clubs of LosContinue Reading
Do you remember reading your favorite childhood book for the first time? It felt like the author had written the book solely for you. For me, that book was Alice in Wonderland. The Wishing Game gave me that same feeling. Thirtysomething Lucy has a favorite childhood book series called theContinue Reading