Guest Post Cara Putman’s Bucket List Bucket lists are such fun ideas. A list of items, experiences, places we hope to have while we’re able. I haven’t written down a bucket list before, but it didn’t take long to create this list. You’ll see it’s a mix of writing andContinue Reading
My Review “Some sins were hard to forgive no matter how willing she was to try.” Especially when the sin was her husband having an affair, and a child, with her sister. But that was water under the bridge and a long time ago. Now her teenage niece Addy JoContinue Reading
My Review: Down these mean streets, a man must go. It’s thirty years after the heyday of black and white film and book noir, when Shane Cleary walks the mean streets of 1970s Boston, the Dirty Old Town. Shane is a private eye trying to survive after returning from theContinue Reading
Character Interview of Sheriff Bet Rivers 1.What was your most exciting case when you worked on patrol in South Central Los Angeles? I don’t know if it was the most exciting, but it was certainly the most bizarre. I once participated in a slow speed chase. You read that right,Continue Reading
Author’s Guest Post by L. A. Clayton on the Writing Process You asked me to explain how I organize my writing. This is a loaded question that will require some background explanation. First of all, I have been an avid reader my entire life. On average, I probably read aboutContinue Reading
Just as Raiders of the Lost Ark was Spielberg’s homage to the adventure serials of his youth, Treasure Fever is an homage to Raiders. This time the adventurer is named Max Finley. His original goal is to find Lexa, a beautiful woman wanted for copying an ancient text in Spain,Continue Reading
My Review The Fireman has escaped from custody and the serial killings begin again in The Final Deception, the fifth book in the New York Confidential series. The Fireman strangles his victims, cuts out their tongues, gouges their eyes out, and burns their, then dead, bodies. FBI Agent Craig andContinue Reading
The author of the paranormal Charley Davidson mysteries begins a new comic and romantic mystery series with A Bad Day for Sunshine. Sunshine is the name of the Sheriff of tiny Del Sol, New Mexico. Del Sol is her hometown that she left at seventeen after a tragic incident. Now,Continue Reading
Strike Me Down had me at this quote: “‘The event is sold out, but we’ve sunk that revenue—‘ ‘Cash, not revenue,’ Nora corrected.’” Why did I love this quote? Because no one ever cares enough about accounting to even bother fact-checking it. Nora is a forensic accountant hired to findContinue Reading
Ursula is a thief. Alice is a victim. Gareth is a loser. Strangers is all three of their stories and how they will eventually become entangled. The beginning of Strangers was rather slow as we see each of the three characters’ lives from their own point-of-view. It takes about halfContinue Reading
What happens when you mix Great Expectations with a bit of early Stephen King and a handful of Robin Cook? She has a Broken Thing Where her Heart Should Be, of course. A totally effective mashing of all my favorite 1980s books with the 1861 Dickens tale. I guarantee youContinue Reading
Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery (Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series) by Gayle Leeson About Perils and Lace Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Publisher: Grace Abraham Publishing Number of Pages – 212 (approx.) Digital ASIN: B086KXY34W A murderer outwitting a quirky flapper ghost?Continue Reading
Whitney and her cousin Buck are house flippers. One morning, Whitney can’t open the front door of their most recent flip. After entering through the garage, Whitney finds a body Dead in the Doorway. She also finds the former owner’s grandson, Dakota, squatting in the house. Dakota identifies the bodyContinue Reading
After She Wrote Him is the wildly inventive tale of two writers writing about each other. But which one is fictional? “‘It’s an exploration of an author’s relationship with her protagonist, an examination of the tenuous line between belief and reality, imagination and self, and what happens when that lineContinue Reading
Author Guest Post by Charlotte Stuart How Cozy Is It? A cup of tea or a mug of java? Some readers of mysteries don’t consider cozies as “serious” mystery novels. Even though the emphasis in cozies has always been on solving puzzles, there are certain characteristics that cause some readersContinue Reading
Within the first chapter, the author explains what happened in the prior two books in this series. It’s a humdinger! Rowan and her family’s lives have been intertwined with infamous serial killer, Julian Addington, and his family for literally decades. Her mother had a “relationship” with him. Not to mentionContinue Reading