Nail’s Crossing by Kris Lackey

August 24, 2022

Somewhere buried in Kris Lackey’s first Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery, Nail’s Crossing, is a plot. That plot is underneath so many chase scenes that I lost count, including one chase scene with Maytubby piloting an airplane. But, I did like...

Sandie’s Corner – Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger

August 23, 2022

William Kent Krueger’s Fox Creek leads library holds throughout the country this week. It’s the nineteenth book in the Cork O’Connor series. Although I read it several months ago for Library Journal, I’m not the expert on this series that...

Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley

August 22, 2022

Mindy Quigley kicks off a new cozy mystery series set in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin with Six Feet Deep Dish. I’ll admit I wasn’t so sure about the protagonist when I read Delilah (Dee) O’Leary’s description of herself as a micromanaging chef. But,...

Death Casts a Shadow by Patricia Skalka

August 21, 2022

Death Casts a Shadow is the seventh and final book in Patricia Skalka’s excellent Dave Cubiak Door County mystery series. Her notes at the end of the book say she completed the arc she had planned for Dave Cubiak. She took him from a broken man through almost...

Off

August 20, 2022

I mentioned that I’m on deadline for Library Journal this week. I have eighty pages in my last book, and the deadline is today. So, I was reading that, and about to head to bed when I realized I had no post for today. I also know some of you, including family,...