Smart Ruby, princess Weiss, athletic Blake, and Ruby’s older sister Yang are roommates at Beacon Academy hoping to become huntresses to kill Grimm in RWBY: The Official Manga Vol 1. Who doesn’t like a school setting where the students are training to be something extraordinary? Harry Potter and the X-MenContinue Reading
Author’s Guest Post Family Dinners Can Be Deadly First off, thank-you for letting me stop by. I’m excited about this latest installment in the Sugar & Spice Mystery series and appreciate the opportunity to talk about it. Friends and business partners, Sugar Calloway and Dixie Spicer have done well withContinue Reading
Hildy already has a full-time job working as a hospital social worker in rural Sorenson, Wisconsin. She decides to take a second job to ride along with Police Officer Devonshire (Devo for short) and her therapy dog, Roscoe on the Night Shift. Hildy is doing what all the Defund theContinue Reading
The Wife Who Knew Too Much has the best opening paragraph I’ve read in quite a while. “I’m writing this to raise an alarm in case of my untimely death. This is hard to admit, even to myself, let alone to the world. My husband is planning to kill me.Continue Reading
“I’m sorry to have to tell you that Theo isn’t your son. He’s mine.” said Miles to Pete. It seems that their now two-year-old sons were switched at birth in the hospital. And Miles has DNA evidence to prove it in Playing Nice, a new domestic thriller by the authorContinue Reading
His & Hers is a true cat and mouse story. Or maybe cat among the pigeons is a better analogy. It is my favorite book so far this year for its completely original story and especially for its many twists and turns in the plot. For two years, Anna AndrewsContinue Reading
In The Devil’s Bones, Sarah Booth, a proudly pregnant Tinkie, Cece, and Jitty the ghost are on vacation! But, as usual, where Sarah Booth goes, trouble follows. It’s Easter and the flowers around Bexler B&B in South Mississippi are beautiful. Not so beautiful? Finding a corpse on the first dayContinue Reading
The Woman Before Wallis is Thelma Furness. As the book opens, Thelma is married to her second husband and is having a public affair with the soon-to-be King Edward. She is called away to America to support her identical twin sister, Gloria Vanderbilt. Gloria is in the “Trial of theContinue Reading
Author Guest Post The main setting for “Larceny at the Library” is the Library of Congress, situated on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world; there is truly no comparable institution in terms of scope, depth, and breadth of collections. IContinue Reading
It’s war—cyber war with the Russians! In the Russian corner, it’s a new AI netbot code named Soul Searcher spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories online about Benjamin Butler. Why Benjamin, you ask? He is the head of the Department of Defense’s black ops division. But the real reason is becauseContinue Reading
Half Moon Bay, set in California, is the third book in the Deputy Coroner Clay Edison series. Deputy Coroner Clay is a new father to fourteen-week-old Charlotte. He and his wife, psychologist Amy, are alternating shifts watching Charlotte sleep very little and cry quite a bit. Since Clay works theContinue Reading
Remain in Love is an extremely detailed memoir, almost an autobiography of the drummer for Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. Beginning at the beginning, the book starts with the author’s birth. Then it backtracks to his parent’s meeting for the first time. In fact, it takes quite awhileContinue Reading
Death by Windmill: A Mother’s Day Murder in Amsterdam (Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Publisher: Independently published (May 16, 2020) Paperback: 218 pages ISBN-13: 979-8646330070 Digital ASIN: B0843K7HNQ A Mother’s Day trip to the Netherlands turns deadly when a guest plummets fromContinue Reading
Four female former college roommates go on a one-week vacation in France to celebrate their fortieth birthdays. They bring their spouses and children along. This is definitely The Vacation they will never forget. Despite being a Monday, I was desperately looking for an easy bee-itchy beach read. I needed aContinue Reading
Have you ever wondered if your thoughts are “normal”? Well now you have someone to compare yourself to without worrying about your spouse calling the police! The author of Raised in Captivity appears to have captured 34 of his random thoughts and published them in a book. Could there beContinue Reading
“Everybody at work is your ‘customer’ now. And you are theirs. Up, down, sideways, and diagonal. That’s because collaboration is the latest revolution sweeping across the workplace.” That’s why every employee needs to know The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. So how do you become indispensable? Stop being aContinue Reading