Library Journal’s Best Crime Fiction of 2023

December 06, 2023

Everyone has their “Best of” list out. This isn’t the same as my favorites of 2023, which I always run at the beginning of the new year. And, I’ll be inviting anyone who wants to participate to take part in that again this year. This is Library...

Lost Hours by Paige Shelton

December 05, 2023

While I’m a fan of Paige Shelton’s Alaska Wild series, in my opinion, Lost Hours isn’t the best of the five books. I found it confusing at times, with too many plotlines to keep straight. And, with the cliffhanger ending that I suspected was coming,...

Sniffing Out Murder by Kallie E. Benjamin

December 04, 2023

Writing as Kallie E. Benjamin, Valerie Burns (V.M. Burns) launches the Bailey the Bloodhound cozy mystery series. She’s carved out a little niche for herself in northern Indiana, southern Michigan, for settings. This series is set in Crosbyville, a city of...

Death Writes by Andrea Carter

December 03, 2023

Andrea Carter takes readers back to the Inoshowen Peninsula in Ireland for the sixth book in the series, Death Writes. While other books in the series have been described as atmospheric, in this one, the focus is not on the landscape, but on the people involved with...

That Others May Live by Sara Driscoll

December 02, 2023

Fans have probably been waiting for the seventh book in the FBI K-9 series, That Others May Live, for a while. Jen J. Danna, half of the writing team of Sara Driscoll explains the delay. due to the death of her writing partner, Ann Vanderlaan. But, before Vanderlaan...