Reviews + Articles
Loose Lips by Kemper Donovan
Kemper Donovan has achieved that rare feat. His second Ghostwriter mystery is better than his first, The Busy Body, in my opinion. Loose Lips takes the Ghostwriter, now working under the pseudonym Belle Currer, on a cruise with 300 suspects. As Belle Currer, the...
A Lethal Walk in Lakeland by Nicholas George
While I enjoy the premise of Nicholas George's series, and I like the protagonist, there's just something off about this latest book, A Lethal Walk in Lakeland. I was just disgusted with the over-the-top behavior of the Uptons, a family of Texans on the Rovers...
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
It took a couple powerful women in the media to point out to Ina Garten what my mother told me long ago. In her memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten said she gave a speech in which she said she had always been lucky. Oprah and Lesley Stahl both shot her...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb
J.D. Robb's sixtieth "In Death" novel, Bonded in Death, is due out on Feb. 4. That makes it perfect timing to share Kevin Tipple's review of the fifty-third in the series, Forgotten in Death. Thank you, Kevin. It is late May 2061 as Forgotten in Death: An Eve...
Glen Davis’ Favorites of 2024
Thank you, Glen, for sending us your list of favorite books read in 2024. I look forward to your comments every Thursday because I always find something to smile at in your pithy remarks. Thanks for sharing this list with us. This year, for whatever reason, I...
What Are You Reading?
How are you doing this week? I hope the fires stayed away, Mark. I hope the rest of you are staying warm. It was 6 degrees here when I got up yesterday morning. Six degrees! That's way too cold for this warm weather person. I left the house twice this week, and...