Reviews + Articles

Sandie’s Corner – Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger

William Kent Krueger's Fox Creek leads library holds throughout the country this week. It's the nineteenth book in the Cork O'Connor series. Although I read it several months ago for Library Journal, I'm not the expert on this series that Sandie Herron is. Sandie...

Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley

Mindy Quigley kicks off a new cozy mystery series set in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin with Six Feet Deep Dish. I'll admit I wasn't so sure about the protagonist when I read Delilah (Dee) O'Leary's description of herself as a micromanaging chef. But, after the first...

Death Casts a Shadow by Patricia Skalka

Death Casts a Shadow is the seventh and final book in Patricia Skalka's excellent Dave Cubiak Door County mystery series. Her notes at the end of the book say she completed the arc she had planned for Dave Cubiak. She took him from a broken man through almost...

Off

I mentioned that I'm on deadline for Library Journal this week. I have eighty pages in my last book, and the deadline is today. So, I was reading that, and about to head to bed when I realized I had no post for today. I also know some of you, including family,...

Winners and a Complete Series Giveaway

Congratulations to the two winners of the last contest. The books are going to the coasts. Lisa G. from Pensacola Beach, FL won Iced by Felix Francis. Cold, Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs is heading to Glen D. from Yuba City, CA. The books are going out in the mail...

What Are You Reading?

I don't know about where you live, but we've had gorgeous weather for the last week or so - low humidity, temperatures in the 60s or 70s in the morning, and low 80s by evening. Just gorgeous. Able to turn off the air conditioning, and open the house. And, today,...