Suspect in High Heels (High Heels Mysteries) by Gemma Halliday My Review Suspect in High Heels is the tenth book in the High Heels cozy mystery series. Maddie is a shoe designer, mom of two-year-old twins, and wife of a police detective. However, she makes time to visit the setContinue Reading
Haunted House Ghost: Death At The Fall Festival (Braxton Campus Mysteries) by James J. Cudney My Review It’s Halloween and Professor Kellan is renovating his newly purchased rundown mansion in the Haunted House Ghost. A current mystery and a historic one compete for Kellan and his potential girlfriend, Sheriff April’sContinue Reading
House of Ghosts sounds like an Agatha Christie plot. As World War I battles a world away, a house party is gathering at a mysterious old house on an English island. The goal is to use mediums to raise the spirits of the owners’ two sons—both dead in the war.Continue Reading
Virgil Flowers is back! His girlfriend Frankie is very pregnant with twins. He doesn’t appreciate having to bring in the hay on her farm. And, oh, he’s investigating a murder of a venerated Professor who likes to argue. The Professor is a genius who has been hit in the head—aContinue Reading
Another great selection of eleven British golden-age mystery stories is found in the Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. From Blind Man’s Hood from the great John Dickson Carr to ‘Twist the Cup and the Lip by Julian Symons, many of the authors will be familiar to those who loveContinue Reading
Batman is my favorite superhero so I had to read Batman: 100 Greatest Moments! What a great review or catch up on the entire Batman story. From Batman’s origin to tales from the dark multiverse, all the important stories are here. Each has a short summary of the event andContinue Reading
Caleb is created in an unusual way and born into an ultra-religious home in the new novel, Into Captivity They Will Go. After her father’s death, Caleb’s mother, Evelyn, begins to believe she and Caleb are God’s chosen ones. In fact, they both believe Caleb is the second coming ofContinue Reading
You are trying to find the elusive Orwellians through a series of puzzles in Escape Book 2. All of your journalism hasn’t stopped the dreaded Castian, the villain that poisoned you in Escape Book 1. Maybe the anti-governmental terrorist group, the Orwellians, can. After receiving an invitation to join them,Continue Reading
How can a person, place, or thing stand out in the huge deluge of information now? In The Iconist, the author uses the KISS method. KISS stands for keep it simple stupid. He also recommends using large, bright, simple and symmetrical blocks of visual information to engage distracted humans. Finally,Continue Reading
The Shape of Night is an abrupt departure from this author’s usual police procedural. It’s an atmospheric gothic romantic suspense story with some modern twists thrown in. Ava has a terrible guilt-driven secret. In addition, she is over a year past the publisher’s deadline on her latest cookbook. Hoping toContinue Reading
With over 50 recipes, every food event in Louisa Mae Alcott’s Little Women is replicated using modern ingredients and cooking methods in the Little Women Cookbook. From simple lemonade and hot chocolate to fruit trifles and Jo’s corned beef, the book has recipes for all skill levels. Many of theContinue Reading
Andy, the perpetually retiring defense lawyer, gets sucked into two cases involving dogs in the fun cozy mystery, Dachshund Through the Snow. Andy is asked by an old cop frenemy to find a way to get the city to allow the cop’s K-9 partner, Simon, to retire with him inContinue Reading
The Empire of Lies is an incredibly detailed alternative history. What if a time traveler helped the Ottoman Empire win the 1682 Battle of Vienna? How would it impact present-day life? The answer is it would be a completely different scenario. A Sultan rules over the entire world except inContinue Reading