Strike Out 4 Murder

Not you see him…and now you don’t. When a dead body goes missing, Phee’s retired, but not retiring, mother Harriet insists that her amateur sleuth/bookkeeper daughter find out what happened. If only it were that easy. Will Phee Strike Out 4 Murder? Sun City West is a retirement complex inContinue Reading

What Have We Done

An improbable cartoonish plot and paper-thin unlikeable characters makes What Have We Done a miss for me. Five teenagers meet in a horrendous group home and do something drastic to save themselves from its horrors. Twenty-five years later, all five have achieved various levels of success: a judge, a techContinue Reading

Storm Watch

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is once again waist high in both snow and intrigue in Storm Watch. While being snowed in here in southern California in March(!), I decided to stay in bed under multiple blankets and read a thriller. If my intention was to forget about the snowContinue Reading

The Angel Maker

Alex North, the author of the brilliant The Whisper Man, is back with the complex, enthralling new thriller, The Angel Maker. The book has not one, not two, but three crazed killers running around! Don’t miss it! High schooler Katie decides to have an after-school tryst rather than walk homeContinue Reading

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

Maybe it’s because I’m an avid thriller reader but seeing “Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six” on an Airbnb site would not make me want to rent it. Unless I was a demented serial killer, which appears to be the case with most, if not all, of the characters in this convolutedContinue Reading

Primer and Punishment

House flipping cousins Whitney and Buck decide to take on a houseboat in Primer and Punishment. They want a quick flip because Buck’s wedding to Collette, Whitney’s best friend, is fast approaching. They are thinking that the boat would make a great venue for the bachelor and bachelorette parties! Unfortunately,Continue Reading

In Farm's Way

In Farm’s Way is another great cozy mystery from one of my favorite authors, Amanda Flower. Shiloh is coerced by her best friend, Kristy, to investigate a murder of an almost universally disliked local brewery owner. Despite the plethora of suspects, the police are focusing on Kristy’s husband and ShilohContinue Reading

Such Pretty Flowers

In Such Pretty Flowers, Dane is graduating college and moving in with his new girlfriend, Maura, a florist. Dane’s family begins to see that he may be dealing with some mental health challenges. However, weekly therapy does not prevent Dane from soon killing himself in a most unusual way. Holly,Continue Reading

Unnatural History

Psychologist Alex Delaware and police detective Milo Sturgis are investigating another bizarre death in the Los Angeles sunshine in Unnatural History. A troubled trust funded photographer is murdered in his bed. Could his murderer be a family member looking to increase their chunk of the family’s future inheritance? Or wasContinue Reading