A Dead Man and Doggie Delights
Spend an afternoon reading A Dead Man and Doggie Delights and you won’t be disappointed by this captivating cozy mystery, the first in a new series. Maggie is risking it all on opening a ba(r)kery and cafe with her best friend, Jamie, in a small town in Colorado. She movesContinue Reading
Some Choose Darkness
Thirty years apart, two women with obsessive-compulsive disorder track a serial killer in Some Choose Darkness. In 1979, Angela is newly married to Thomas in suburban Chicago. She also has a photographic memory and ocd. When frightened by a stranger in the alley behind her house, she begins to suspectContinue Reading
Mahoney’s Camaro
Mahoney’s Camaro was a great auction deal. Only a grand for a cherry 1967 that had only been in the river for a few hours. As with every good deal, this one had a few strings. First, Heather had been handcuffed to the steering wheel and drowned after being shovedContinue Reading
Riots I Have Known
Riots I Have Known is a slice-of-prisoner-life novella. An unnamed prisoner, who is hiding alone in the prison’s Media Center during a riot, describes his two year journey within the prison walls and the riot that is occurring around him. The narrator is the editor of the literary-lauded prison monthlyContinue Reading
Waisted
In Waisted, Alice and Daphne are in a last ditch attempt to lose their excess weight at a private weight loss retreat. Alice’s life before fat camp is meticulously recounted. However, I can do it in just one sentence. Alice blames all of her problems, some real and some imaginary,Continue Reading
One Word Kill
Nick is just trying to survive high school in One Word Kill…literally. Nick, Simon, John and Elton are best friends, high schoolers, and Dungeons & Dragons fanatics in 1986. Nick also has a crush on their newest player, Mia. Plus Nick has cancer. Bullies Devis and Rust are rumored toContinue Reading
Game of Bones
The private investigative team of Sarah Booth and Tinkie are investigating a murder by exsanguination during an archaeological dig in Game of Bones. Two competing archaeology professors set up an excavation on a Native American burial mound. To stop the work, a local Native American attorney files an injunction. WhenContinue Reading
Lady Mechanika Vol 5
Absolutely beautiful artwork and an intriguing plot enliven Lady Mechanika Vol 5. Lady Mechanika is again trying to discover who mechanized her when she is interrupted by a new issue. Mr. Lewis, her sidekick, is pulled out of his depression by a new lady love. But is her love forContinue Reading
Tears of the Trufflepig
Tears of the Trufflepig is a surrealistic deep dive into where our current cultural road may lead. Tense US/Mexico border relations, genetically modified food, and a further divide between the haves and the have nots are all here. In the future, worldwide food shortages have decimated the world’s population. ScientistsContinue Reading
Never Game
In the Never Game, Colter Shaw finds people for a living. Not for honor. Not for glory. For the reward money. Taught rules for hunting by his survivalist father from a young age, Colter uses his skills to find missing people. When Sophie doesn’t return home, her father is convincedContinue Reading
No Saving Throw
No Saving Throw is a cozy mystery set in the nerdy world of Dungeons & Dragons. If the D&D term “No Saving Throw” is unfamiliar, it means you can’t roll the dice to prevent or mitigate the awful thing that just occurred. Also, it means this book may not beContinue Reading
Night Window
It’s time for Jane Hawk to finally get some payback for her husband’s death and so much more in Night Window. The Techno-Arcadians have chased former FBI Agent Jane Hawk through four books already. Jane is trying to bring to light a massive conspiracy of billionaires. The Arcadians inserted aContinue Reading
Night Before
The less you know about the plot, the better the surprises will be in The Night Before. Rosie forces her sister, Laura, to go on a date arranged on a dating website. When Laura doesn’t return that night or the next morning, Rosie investigates what happened. The Night Before isContinue Reading
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
The next time you upgrade a perfectly good phone because of a rebate that is denied two months later, don’t feel bad. Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up will introduce you to much worse human errors in judgment. We celebrated when our hunter-gatherer ancestors startedContinue Reading
Secret Agent Brainteasers
Secret Agent Brainteasers contains over 100 puzzles in a variety of types from logic and wordplay to algebra and geometry. The chapter introductions link the puzzles to skills needed by secret agents as illustrated with true stories from the British intelligence community from Victorian times through today. I enjoyed theContinue Reading
Castle on Sunset
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the Castle on Sunset is not salacious enough. When the topic is the famous Hollywood hotel, the Chateau Marmont, you expect some racy gossip. But if so, you will be sadly disappointed as most of the celebrity stories have been widely told before.Continue Reading