Senator Bernie Sanders is the star of his own cozy mystery in Feel the Bern. A man is drowned in maple syrup. Senator Sanders investigates. New England leaf peepers, small town quirks, mittens, and progressive politics ensue. Take what you think about this great elevator plot pitch and make itContinue Reading
Are you ready for a memoir about working front of house in a fancy restaurant? While not as shocking as Kitchen Confidential, Your Table is Ready does offer a few sweet behind the scenes tidbits that you may have been more comfortable not knowing. Your Table is Ready is perfectContinue Reading
Sheriff Sunshine Vicram is still trying to break up a local moonshine gang while in love with its boss. It’s unfortunate that her fixation is causing her to overpour tequila for herself leading to A Hard Day for a Hangover. A Hard Day for a Hangover is not a standaloneContinue Reading
Just in time to daydream about your next new year resolution, Live Life Keto explains why a keto diet might be perfect for you. After a forty-page introduction to the keto diet, the book delves into 104 keto recipes. There are fifteen breakfast, ten soups/stews and ten lunch/meal prep recipes.Continue Reading
Reward hunter Colter Shaw is back looking for a frantic woman and her teenage daughter. The woman’s employer is looking for her because she is an irreplaceable nuclear engineer. Unfortunately, her psycho ex-husband was recently released from prison and has vowed to kill her and their daughter. It’s Hunting Time!Continue Reading
Wormhole is a police procedural set on a world far far away and also an almost ruined Earth. Cold case detectives on Earth must solve an eighty-year-old case that was recently revived after a spaceship thought lost arrives at a new planet. The spaceship sets up a quick path toContinue Reading
People from the city, beware the suburbs! Stephanie, her husband Pete and their fifteen-year-old son, Danny, move into an upscale London suburb. Danny soon makes friends with the kid across the street. But Stephanie finds the parents are just plain odd. What secrets are they hiding in The Locked Attic?Continue Reading
None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive is a humorous book about a certain, relatively brief period in every married mother’s life, amplified up to eleven. Ramona is having an epically bad day. First, a hurricane is approaching and strangely that is not the worst news. AfterContinue Reading
Paperback Jack is advertised as a noir thriller, but instead reads like a period piece/memoir. Pulp fiction writer Jacob returns stateside after WWII and finds the pulps dead. What is a writer to do to make a living? He turns to creating lurid paperback fiction as his meal ticket. ButContinue Reading
In Flight Risk, Leda is a part-time psychic/full-time travel agent who finally has a psychic-needing client looking for a missing sister—not another lost cat. Her friend, Detective Grady, has a personal interest in the puzzle of a missing man. The good news is that Grady’s dog is found after beingContinue Reading
The Sex Pistols were a phenomenon that popped up about the same time as disco began in the mid to late 1970s. There truly couldn’t be two more opposite styles. For angry young people upset about inflation and no jobs, punk was the perfect way to release their frustration thatContinue Reading
The subtitle for The Number Ones is Twenty Chart-topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. It sounds like hyperbole—but it’s not. Get ready to give your favorite music streaming service a workout as you revisit old favorite songs and find new ones. The book covers music from 1960Continue Reading
Murder at Black Oaks is really two plots locked haphazardly together in one book. First, there is Frank, a former prosecutor who discovers the man he sent to prison for life, Jose, is innocent. Unfortunately, his evidence cannot be used in court, so he uses his considerable wealth to getContinue Reading
Grilled 4 Murder is a delightful cozy mystery set at an Arizona retirement community. Phee works full-time at a private investigation firm as an accountant but her zany retired mother, Harriet, keeps volunteering her to investigate local crimes. This time Food Network is hosting a BBQ competition. It’s down toContinue Reading
Ten-year-old Lukas is The Collector of images that looked like faces. He is also missing. Detective Erik Schafer is investigating but the clues have led to nothing. Heloise is Schafer’s friend but also an investigative journalist. It’s Copenhagen in February. A young boy wouldn’t last long in the frozen streets.Continue Reading
The author of the great horror mystery book, The Chalk Man, writes eleven short stories showing us A Sliver of Darkness. The tales were mostly written during the recent Covid pandemic and so are apocalyptic in nature. However, many also speak to the resilience of mankind. I usually don’t likeContinue Reading