Such Good Work
Such Good Work is the inspiring tale of addiction and recovery based on a true story. Jonas works as an adjunct creative writing teacher in the US. When he isn’t being fired. And if he isn’t high on oxy or another opiate. When Jonas hits rock bottom, he makes theContinue Reading
A Time to Scatter Stones
Matthew Scudder is back more than a decade since his last appearance in A Time to Scatter Stones. The Scudder series began in the 1980s. Now decades later, Scudder has continued to age and is now well past retirement age. However, he is still tilting at windmills. In this novella,Continue Reading
Apocalypse 5
Fans of the Hunger Games have found a new book series to love with Apocalypse 5. Sometime in the future, the world’s scientists are trying to develop a team that can fight any type of calamity that might cause an apocalypse on Earth. Teams of five young people are placedContinue Reading
Rule of Law
Dismas Hardy is back in the 18th series entry in Rule of Law. Dismas’ longtime secretary, Phyllis, is acting strangely. Perhaps it has something Phyllis’ brother, Adam, who has just been released from prison. After disappearing for a few days, Phyllis returns to work only to be arrested as anContinue Reading
Past Due for Murder
Amy, the public library Director, and her friend, Sunny, are thrown into a missing person’s investigation in Past Due for Murder. Lacey, a college student, is missing presumed lost in the woods outside of Taylorsford, Virginia. Does her mysterious trek into the mountains have anything to do with the fairyContinue Reading
Watcher in the Woods
A small hidden Canadian town is thrown into turmoil by a Watcher in the Woods. Rockton is a small village of 200 concealed in the Yukon wilderness. Originally a refuge for 1960s activists, it now hides people fearing for their life. Dalton was born in the Yukon and is nowContinue Reading
Plus+
Plus+ is a coffee table book exploring plus size fashion. Popping with pictures of regular plus size women wearing what they enjoy, Plus+ shouldn’t be unusual. After all per the National Institute of Health, 2 out of 3 women are overweight or obese. However, I have never seen another bookContinue Reading
Stalker
A Stalker is loose in Stockholm and Detective Joona Linna is hunting him before he can kill again. A serial killer is sending YouTube links to the Swedish National Crime Unit showing peeping Tom video of women right before they are murdered. What connects the videos or woman? Who couldContinue Reading
Forget You Know Me
After what appears to be an emergency occurs, why would a friend ask another to Forget You Know Me? Liza and Molly are best friends since childhood. But when Liza moves to Chicago and Molly marries and has two children, they slowly drift apart. They finally get together through FacetimeContinue Reading
Miraculum
Miraculum is a carnival with a big top, a midway, and freak show in 1922. It is also the setting for a battle of good against evil. After the suicide of the carnival’s chicken biting geek, a mysterious well-dressed man applies for the job. Despite a lack of experience, heContinue Reading
Smiling Man
The Smiling Man is a dark and compelling police procedural set during the night shift in a poor Manchester area. Detective Aidan Waits has been stuck on the night shift by his superiors and partnered with Detective Inspector Sutty, who is not the most motivated of men. When a bodyContinue Reading
Readymade Home Furniture
Readymade Home Furniture takes off the shelf items found at any big box home improvement store and repurposes them into practical items for your home. While some of the projects are simple like message boards and planters, others are complex like club chairs and closet home offices. There are 23Continue Reading
Nowhere Child
In the Nowhere Child, Sammy Went is two years old when she goes missing from her home in Manson, Kentucky. Twenty-eight years later, Kimberly is living her life quietly in Australia. She is approached by James who says he believes she is his missing sister, Sammy. After seeing a DNAContinue Reading
Great Thinking Machine
Professor Van Dusen, also known as the Great Thinking Machine, unravels puzzles that would stump a lesser man. The “Problem of Cell 13” is rather famous as an ingenious locked room mystery. The Professor is challenged by two colleagues to escape from a real prison cell within a week. TheContinue Reading
Maid
The tenacious memoir of the author’s struggle with poverty and single motherhood is told in Maid. Stephanie has dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. Those dreams are shattered by an unexpected pregnancy and an abusive baby’s daddy. With experience only as a barista in an economic downturn,Continue Reading
Take-out
Loosely tied together by the theme of food, the sixteen stories contained in Take-Out vary from crime stories to humor. While I enjoyed reading all the stories, my favorite was “The Gift of the Wiseguy”. It’s the story of a Mafioso’s son who writes a memoir. His father had rattedContinue Reading