What Are You Reading?

December 17, 2015

I just can’t settle in with a book right now. Maybe it’s the time of year. Maybe it’s all the errands I’ve been running on my lunch hour, so I miss that hour of reading.  It doesn’t happen often for me, but sometimes I just...

The Spider Ring by Andrew Harwell

December 16, 2015

It may have taken me a while to get around to Andrew Harwell’s juvenile fantasy, The Spider Ring, but I’m glad I kept it in the TBR pile. It’s an excellent novel about a young girl who felt like an outcast, abandoned by friends, who discovered...

The Wives of Los Alamos by Tarashea Nesbit

December 15, 2015

I actually read Tarashea Nesbit’s The Wives of Los Alamos a year ago. However, it’s the book we discussed last night for our book club. Knowing I wasn’t home in the evening to read, it’s appropriate to re-run the review of that fascinating...

Caught Dead Handed by Carol J. Perry

December 14, 2015

What better setting for a Halloween mystery than Salem, Massachusetts? Carol J. Perry launched her Witch City Mysteries by bringing her amateur sleuth home to Salem in Caught Dead Handed. And, Salem doesn’t disappoint the reader. Lee Barrett returns home...

Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves

December 13, 2015

Sometimes, I forget how much I love police procedurals. Then I read a book such as Ann Cleeves’ latest Vera Stanhope mystery, Harbour Street. Cleeves makes me regret every book I’m reading that is not a procedural. Just before Christmas, Detective Joe...