Sandwich by Catherine Newman

September 10, 2025

I’m a little late in picking up Catherine Newman’s Sandwich. It’s one of the four choices for Saturday’s book chat at my local library. It was worth the wait for this story of one woman in the sandwich generation. But, Rocky, who worries about...

Crooks by Lou Berney

September 09, 2025

Lou Berney has won various crime fiction awards for his novels The Long and Faraway Gone, November Road, Dark Ride and Double Barrel Bluff. Those books have nothing in common except the author, his imagination, and his skill in telling an engrossing story. Now, he...

Kevin’s Corner Annex – A Lonesome Place for Murder by Nolan Chase

September 08, 2025

Well, I blew that. I fully intended to have one of my reviews here today, and I finished a book. However, when I finished it, I discovered the book isn’t released until October 7. I don’t mind posting a review slightly before release day, but a month early...

The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie

September 07, 2025

I certainly haven’t read all of Agatha Christie’s work, but, in all of the books I’ve read, my favorite character remains Harley Quin, featured in her collection of short stories, The Mysterious Mr. Quin. Each story in the edition I read is...

Recap – The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

September 06, 2025

There are several reasons you’re getting the recap of 2020’s debut of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. I read 67 pages of a novel with one of the most malevolent characters I ever read. She was manipulative and just horrific, and I couldn’t...