The Madness of Mercury Guest Post and Giveaway
Author’s Guest Post The Kidnapping of Nellie DiMaggio I’m always surfing the web or checking out news stories for odd bits of history or interesting locations to use in the Zodiac Mysteries. You just never know where you’ll find a perfect setting or plot for a murder mystery. My SanContinue Reading
Novel Advice
I love the premise of Novel Advice. “I’ll be the agony aunt for the unreal. You can call me Aunt Antigone.” The book writes Dear Abby letters from the characters of most classic fiction and a few modern books too. Then the book’s author answers them. For example, Aunt AntigoneContinue Reading
Spawning Suspicion Guest Post and Giveaway
Author Guest Post Other Duties As Assigned By Maggie Toussaint Other duties as assigned is a phrase that most of us near the bottom of the employment ladder know very well. It means that your job involves more than what’s listed in the job description. This often translates into personalContinue Reading
Murder in Old Bombay
I can always tell when I genuinely love a book. I start to read it much slower—because I don’t want it to end. That is what unexpectedly happened to me while reading Murder in Old Bombay. It’s 1892 in India. Retired Captain James Agnihotri has been invalided out of theContinue Reading
The Arrest
The Arrest caused the world’s power grid to cease. No more cell phones, computers, cars, or even planes. It is 1700 again. When everything stops working, Journeyman and his sister Maddy get stranded at her organic farm in Maine. Little do they know, but their life is about to beContinue Reading
How Not to be OLD (even if you are)
If you are over 40, or the child of someone who is, How Not to be Old (even if you are) is hilarious (and maybe even familiar)! In the chapter about Venmo, “Of course cash still works, but the people who have cash these days are strippers, drug dealers, andContinue Reading
The Photography of Mauthausen
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp. The Photography of Mauthausen tells the story of Spanish prisoner and former newspaper photographer Francisco. Director of the Erkennungsdienst, Ricken, was an amateur photographer himself. He orders Francisco to assist him in photographing the inmate death scenes. And those scenes are horrific. Injecting gasolineContinue Reading
Murder by Milk Bottle
With all the mess going on right now in the world and in the White House, it is almost comforting to be hunting for a killer in 1957 Brighton, England. For three victims have been killed in an unusual way. In fact, it is Murder by Milk Bottle. Constable TwittenContinue Reading
Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine
Yum! Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine includes a comprehensive look into how a bread machine works before listing 100 recipes you can try at home. I moved into my current home over a decade ago. During the move, some items were lost. One was the recipe book thatContinue Reading
White Ivy
Ivy is a first generation Chinese immigrant who has totally internalized the American Dream of being in the top 1% regardless of the cost. It fact, Ivy is trying to be what she thinks rich, white Gideon wants in a wife by becoming White Ivy. The pacing is more atContinue Reading
A Galway Epiphany
Jack Taylor is trying to escape his violent past by moving to the Irish countryside. But…just when he thought he was out, they drag him back in. After being hit by a truck, he lapses into a coma. When he awakens without a scratch, the locals think it is AContinue Reading
Murder in the Piazza Spotlight
Murder in the Piazza: A Maggie White Mystery by Jen Collins Moore About Murder in the Piazza Murder in the Piazza: A Maggie White Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Publisher: Level Best Books (September 22, 2020) Paperback: 278 pages ISBN-10: 1947915533 ISBN-13: 978-1947915534 Digital ASIN: B08FBL9GV8 Maggie White, aContinue Reading
Anonymous: A Madison Kelly Mystery Spotlight
Author Guest Post The Real-Life Serial Killer Behind the Thrilling New Mystery ANONYMOUS Elizabeth Breck I’ve been asked where I got the idea to write about a female private investigator, living at the beach, who becomes the obsession of a serial killer after tweeting about him. Because it happened toContinue Reading
Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines Review and Giveaway
My Review Mimi Lee is once again forced to investigate a murder in Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines. Luckily, she has her sassy, and talking (at least in Mimi’s head), cat Marshmallow to help. Detective Brown has Mimi’s sister, Alice, in his sights as his number one suspect inContinue Reading
The Dirty South
It’s 1997. Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker is sitting in an Arkansas jail in The Dirty South. Charlie is heartbroken over the recent murder of his wife and child while searching for their killer. In the Arkansas town of Cargill, someone is killing and mutilating young African-American girls. Charlie hasContinue Reading
Love Her Madly
Love Her Madly is (a) a famous Doors’ song, (b) the title of a new book about The Doors’ front man Jim Morrison, (c) the feeling of the book’s author towards Jim’s girlfriend Mary, or (d) all of the above. The answer is, of course, d. While Wikipedia may notContinue Reading