Good variety of recipes that can be cooked in either a crockpot or Instant Pot. This cookbook has 100 crockpot recipes and each have many variations for gluten-free, paleo, ‘picky eaters’ (i.e. less spicy) or vegan diets. The accompanying photographs look scrumptious. There are many unusual recipes including tomatoContinue Reading
Two Fantastic Mysteries in One Book. I absolutely loved this book. It starts with an editor reading the latest mystery written by their best selling author. The manuscript is written in the style of Agatha Christie’s books. It is set in a small English village where everyone is a suspectContinue Reading
More like Dickens than Sherlock Holmes. Arrowood is a private investigator in Victorian London. He is jealous of his rival, Sherlock Holmes, who gets all the rich clients while he is stuck with London’s less desirable denizens. His latest client is looking for her brother, who disappeared while workingContinue Reading
If the films Metropolis and The Big Sleep had a baby, it would look just like this book’s plot. Ray Electromatic, the last robot in a world that used to be full of them, was programmed to be a private investigator…but killing pays better. His handler, a computer named Ada,Continue Reading
Meh…Read any other book by this author first. Amos Decker, the Memory Man, witnesses a man killing a woman and then himself in front of the FBI Washington DC headquarters. There is no question of whodunnit but Amos and his team are tasked with finding out why the crime wasContinue Reading
Truly horrifying! Manticore is set inside the worst unit of a maximum security prison. Fish is the newest prisoner until a transfer from Gitmo arrives. Then the bodies start piling up. Why are the prisoners given experimental, and possibly psychotropic, drugs? Does that explain the deaths? This is a goodContinue Reading
Excellent Davenport thriller as always with even more psychopaths than usual. Two men rob a Honduran mob’s drug money packaging room. In the process, they kill two security guards and two money counters. Unfortunately, one of the victims has brought his young granddaughter, who is also killed. Davenport, a newlyContinue Reading
This is a short non-fiction book about the celebrity culture in which we currently live. It is interesting and definitely worth the time to read it. The cover of the book says “The famous, the infamous, and why we care way too much about them”. I expected more research thanContinue Reading
Perfect Beach Read! If the summer tv show Love Connection is your fav, then this book will hit that same sweet spot. Also for fans of Bridget Jones, this laugh out loud detailing of a hapless first grade teacher’s love life is delicious from start to finish. Rae is divorcedContinue Reading
Timely look at teen issues. This is the story of Genesis, who was left at an abortion clinic by her boyfriend, Peter. The novel also includes many other current teen topics like drug abuse, religion, pre-marital sex, suicide, mental health, alcoholic binges, and deciding on a career. It is aContinue Reading
Sweet graphic novel showcasing the Louvre’s acquisition process Fabien, a Louvre security guard, meets his girlfriend’s family for the first time. The family has an ancestor’s painting in their attic that they want Fabien to evaluate. What happens to the painting is the plot of this graphic novel. I reallyContinue Reading
Young Adult Family Drama more than a Mystery/Thriller How would you feel if your father’s murder was being covered in a non-fiction podcast? Would you be grateful that someone was looking further into his murder or would you be upset that all the old information is being dredged up onceContinue Reading
Beautiful Illustrations with an Unusual Plot The world has gone crazy in this well plotted beautifully illustrated graphic novel. Suddenly after the Great Divide, one human touching another kills one of them. The killed live on in the brain of the killer as “riders”. Once a rider is in residence,Continue Reading
Bill may be a supercilious a88hole but he is also funny! I was prepared to dislike this book because I’ve read many books based on Internet memes that do not translate well to a book format. I think even Bill’s platitudes would be better one per day rather than allContinue Reading
Stream-of-Consciousness Literary Short Novella (or long short story) When telling an anecdote at a cocktail party, it is natural to embellish it to increase the entertainment value. The narrator of this short story is trying to determine why he is not entertaining and further, why he is not believed. HeContinue Reading
Every Family has a Story. The author writes the history of her family from the 1890s until 1925 based on family and historical records and pictures. It begins with a drought in Nebraska forcing an entire farming family including their grown children to move to free land in Oklahoma. SomeContinue Reading