The Night of the Storm by Nishita Parekh

January 15, 2024

Nishita Parekh’s debut thriller, The Night of the Storm, is a locked room mystery with several different twists. The Indian-American family stuck together in a mansion is trapped by Hurricane Harvey as it hits Houston. And, the protagonist is a single mother of...

Sunday Spotlight – Kaye Wilkinson Barley

January 14, 2024

I’m going to try something new, beginning today, Sunday Spotlight. I’m going to focus on friends, authors, anyone who is willing to answer a few personal questions. I knew I could coerce my friend, Kaye Wilkinson Barley into being the first guinea pig, or...

The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All by Mary Martha Greene

January 13, 2024

Our friend, Kaye Wilkinson Barley, recommended Mary Martha Greene’s The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Southern Recipes, Sweet Remembrances, and a Little Rambunctious Behavior on her own blog, Meanderings and Muses. It’s just the kind of cookbook I would...

Winners and a Giveaway

January 12, 2024

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Carol K. of Omaha, NE won ‘Twas the Bite Before Christmas. Melissa K. of Merrimack, NH will receive The Amish Wife. The books are in the mail. This week, again, I have two books that are very different to give...

What Are You Reading?

January 11, 2024

Raise your hand if you thought you’d get blown away Tuesday night, Wednesday moring. It was a rough night out there. There’s a great deal of empty land between my place and the next apartment, and the wind just howled through there. I finally got up and...