A Ghostly Undertaking by Tonya Kappes

April 26, 2015

I heard Tonya Kappes at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest last week, and her humor caught my attention. I bought the first in her Ghostly Southern mystery series, A Ghostly Undertaking, and I already have the second one, A Ghostly Grave. I have no regrets that I...

The Good, the Bad, and the Furry by Tom Cox

April 25, 2015

How can anyone with a black cat resist the cover of Tom Cox’ The Good, the Bad, and the Furry? The subtitle, though, is a little misleading, “Life with the World’s Most Melancholy Cat”. The Bear, the black cat on the cover, is part of...

Winners and a Cozy Shop Giveaway

April 24, 2015

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Sherilyn L. from Marietta, GA won Invisible City by Julia Dahl. Shannon J. of Evansdale, IA will receive Rhys Bowen’s City of Darkness and Light. I’ll mail the books tomorrow. This week, I’m giving...

To Dance, To Dream by Maxine Drury

April 23, 2015

Maxine Drury’s To Dance, To Dream was written fifty years ago. When I first read it, almost that long ago, I fell in love with the stories of ballet and the remarkable stars of the ballet. Reading it again, a gift from my sister, Linda, the book still has the...

Blood Sweep by Steven F. Havill

April 22, 2015

Every time I read one of Steven F. Havill’s Posadas County mysteries, I lament the fact that not enough people know about these marvelous police procedurals. If you like Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire books, you really should try this series set in a...