Winners and The Next Giveaway

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Murder in Galway will go to Virginia D. from Tempe, AZ, and Jean U. from Burbank, CA. Carol M. from Gibsonburg, OH won Murder at an Irish Wedding. The books will go out in the mail today. Just a reminder. Because...

What Are You Reading?

I’m going to start today’s book chat with a quote from author Lisa Gardner. She was recently interviewed for “By the Book” in The New York Times Book Review. This comment is perfect for Thursdays. “The next best thing to reading a novel...

2022 Audie Award Winners

I know some of the readers listen to audiobooks, and Sandie Herron regularly reviews audiobooks for “Have You Heard?”. So, each year, I share the Audie Award winners. The Audio Publishers Association recently announced the winners of the 2022 Audie Awards,...

Sins of Edom by Carl Brookins

There’s so many directions a reviewer could go with Carl Brookins’ Sins of Edom. The mystery is one of his Senior Sleuth novels featuring Alan Lockem, a retired army intelligence officer and his partner, Marjorie Kane, a retired exotic dancer with...

All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett

Sometimes, the second book in s series doesn’t live up to the first one. That’s not the case with S.J. Bennett’s second Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery, All the Queen’s Men. For some reason, I found the mystery and the characters...