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
A Page Marked for Murder
In A Page Marked for Murder, Addie is the owner of the Beyond the Page bookshop. It is time for the town’s Fire and Ice Festival to celebrate taking down Christmas trees after the holidays. It has an ice carving festival and a Christmas tree bonfire on the beach. However,Continue Reading
Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Visual Puzzles
Do you do well on the IQ test questions that are picking the correct unfolded box? If so, you are in luck! Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Visual Puzzles has a hundred visual puzzles that use the same skill, the ability to move images around in your mind’s eye. I love theContinue Reading
Tell Me My Name
Ellie and Neil are finally getting some alone time after dropping their two children off at summer camp. Ellie chases their dog into the neighbor’s yard and accidentally invites the neighbor, Jake, for dinner. Two days later, Jake has kidnapped them both. Jake has three rules for Ellie…but only theContinue Reading
The Hollow Places
Finally I found the perfect creepy and atmospheric book I’ve been looking for all week. The Hollow Places updates Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows, published in 1907, for modern readers. “Pray They Are Hungry” Kara, nicknamed Carrot, moves in with her uncle Earl in his taxidermy-filled Wonder Museum. She is helpingContinue Reading
The Witch and the Beast 1
It’s Halloween and I’m ready for something scary! The Witch and the Beast 1 does have a witch, more than 1 beast, & a weirdo who carries a coffin on his back like a backpack. However, it unfortunately failed horribly with the scary heebie jeebies. The first witch we meet,Continue Reading
Ghost Towns of Route 66
From Illinois to California, the Ghost Towns of Route 66 span the entire left half of the United States. With plenty of pictures, this book emphasizes the chutzpah of the past facing the modernization of the future. Realistically, how would the country move all the trucks of food and otherContinue Reading
Enchanted New York
There are scores of books about New York City. But Enchanted New York takes us on a deeper journey into its magical past of Freemasons, occultists and seers. Beginning with Washington’s inauguration, the book charts a real journey down Broadway and forward in time. Even though travel is discouraged rightContinue Reading
Candy Cane Crime
I love the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series and Candy Cane Crime is no exception. Bailey is in NYC working on her cable show. So Charlotte is the narrator of this cute love story. When Charlotte volunteers to collect and decorate Christmas notes with candy canes, she never expects toContinue Reading
Cold as Ice
FBI Agent Lucy’s husband is arrested for murder in Cold as Ice, the seventeenth book in the series. Lucy begins to think it’s personal when others close to her life start coming up missing or arrested on unlikely charges. Her initial thought is that it is the sociopath, Elise, whoContinue Reading
What Cats Want
The universal question is not what is the meaning of life. No, for many pet owners the question is about What Cats Want. This book goes into detail about what common cat behaviors mean. In addition, there are sections on how cat biology is different than humans—both for better andContinue Reading
Broadcast 4 Murder
In Broadcast 4 Murder, Harriet and her friend, Myrna, are thrilled to be asked to star in a live radio show in their hometown, retirement village Sun City West. As part of the Booked 4 Murder book club, they expect to talk about murder—they don’t expect to find a murderContinue Reading
Plutocracy
The year is 2051. Not that far from now. The excessive merging of companies since the 20th century have resulted in a single company employing all the workers in the world. It didn’t take long for The Company, as it calls itself, to take over world government too. It wasContinue Reading
The Last Halloween
Monsters are suddenly able to come out of the darkness in The Last Halloween. Will one spunky ten-year-old girl named Mona be able to save herself along with all of humanity? Mona’s father has gone to a party in a dress and a mustache leaving her alone in their house.Continue Reading
The Tinderbox
The Tinderbox is an exhilarating young adult science fiction book by actor Lou Diamond Phillips. Once the two worlds of Indira and Mano were one planet. But a schism broke them into two. Of course, being populated with humans, the two new worlds quickly devolved into mortal enemies of oneContinue Reading
Saving Grace
Join me on the Partners in Crime Virtual Book tour. Read about this twisty psychological thriller and enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card! Saving Grace On Tour October 12 – November 13, 2020 Synopsis: Grace Pierrepoint Rendell, the only child of an ailing billionaire, has been treated forContinue Reading