The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews

December 16, 2022

I actually have a few new Christmas books from the library, but once I started Mary Kay Andrews’ The Santa Suit, I couldn’t quit. I realized I had read it last year when it was released, but it was a comfort read, a book about a woman who credits the...

What Are You Reading?

December 15, 2022

Rain here, but I’m not complaining. Although it’s going to drop into the thirties this weekend, there’s no snow and ice. I hate both of them. I’m reading a book that I didn’t think I read last year when it came out, but it feels familiar....

Sandie’s Corner – Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo

December 14, 2022

Let’s go back in time nine years. Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder mystery, Her Last Breath, came out in 2013. Sandie Herron has read all the books in the series, but I haven’t yet shared all of those reviews. Her Last Breath is the fifth in the...

Have You Heard? The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

December 13, 2022

Because I slogged through the last book I reviewed here, and I’m also on deadline, I don’t have anything to review here today. In fact, I might share a few of Sandie Herron’s reviews here this week so I can catch up. Today, Sandie reviews the first...

A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley

December 12, 2022

Mrs. Parks might run a brothel in Monterey, California in 1851, but what she says about women is as true today as it was then. “Everyone knows this is a dangerous business, but, between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business.” Eliza Ripple has...