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The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki

I think I"m about a year or two behind others who are reading some of these small Japanese books with entwined stories, but it was due to my own prejudice. I had read translated books in the past, and had not been impressed. I never knew if it was the writer or the...

Winners and a Favorite Author

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Sharon B. from Albuquerque, NM won The Dark Wives. Dianne C. of Elk Grove Village, IL will receive Death of a Master Chef. The books will go out in the next couple days. This week, I'm giving away two copies of a...

What Are You Reading?

Unlike last week, when I was in the car for over five hours, on the way to Romney, West Virginia, I'll be around today to talk about books. That was a family trip with my Mom and sisters. We went to Romney on Thursday, taking two cars because of the directions we...

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Don't expect another version of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club with We Solve Murders. In fact, it reminds me more of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age. We Solve Murders was a little slow in starting, but once Rosie D'Antonio stepped in, it picked...

I Dreamed of Falling by Julia Dahl

Julia Dahl's latest standalone, I Dreamed of Falling, is as dark as the cover. What do we really know about the people we love? And, what secrets are there in a small town? Roman Grady is the only reporter for a newspaper in a small Hudson Valley town. He covers...

Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg

Although Lee Goldberg's Ashes Never Lie is the second novel featuring his arson investigators Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker, the author manages to incorporate his other series characters, Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone, into this complex story. He adds a corpse at...