The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

July 10, 2019

I don’t know when I smiled and laughed as much when I read a romance as I did with Christina Lauren’s The Unhoneymooners. The premise was fun, and the characters sparkled on the page. It was sexy and humorous, a terrific combination. Olive Torres is...

Author Interview – Carl Vonderau

July 09, 2019

I shouldn’t be surprised when an author tells me what he read as a child, and the books turn out to be ones I remember fondly. Carl Vonderau’s answer to that question jumped out at me. Today, I have an interview with Vanderau, author of a debut...

The Stories You Tell by Kristen Lepionka

July 08, 2019

Although I often tell readers to go back and read the first in a series, Kristen Lepionka’s The Stories You Tell, the third in the Roxane Weary series, is a fine starting point. However, her first book, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best...

Killer in the Carriage House by Sheila Connolly

July 07, 2019

Although Kate Hamilton, the amateur sleuth in Killer in the Carriage House, comes across as distracted, I was wondering if the author, Sheila Connolly, was distracted when she wrote this latest mystery. I know I had an ARC, so I won’t mention errors I found in...

The Shameless by Ace Atkins

July 06, 2019

Ace Atkins’ ninth Quinn Colson novel needs to come with a label, “Warning. To Be Continued…” If there was ever a book with a cliffhanger ending, it’s The Shameless. Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old boy, Brandon Taylor, went missing in...