Reviews + Articles
Winners and Contest Hiatus
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Jody C. from Salina, KS will receive Christmas Mittens Murder. Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas is heading to Julia H. from Excelsior, MN. The books will go out in the mail today. As I mentioned, I'm taking a...
What Are You Reading?
No one had big complaints about the weather last week, except for the heat. Now, with last week's tropical storm in California, and the results of the storm that hit Texas, I'm hoping everyone is okay. We're only having heat - temperatures between 95 and 99. I can...
Halloween Cupcake Murder
Don't touch that cupcake! Or, I should say, don't touch that cupcake if it gets close to Halloween. Three authors , Carlene O'Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry offer their amateur sleuths the chance to celebrate Halloween, despite a cupcake of death in Halloween...
The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell
The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell marks the debut of the Crescent Cove queer cozy mystery series. As with any cozy series, it introduces the amateur sleuth, the setting of the series, and explains how the main character ended up in that town. I have to admit...
Fadeaway Joe by Hugh Lessig
Hugh Lessig's debut crime novel, Fadeaway Joe, introduces an unlikely duo, and an unreliable narrator not easily forgotten. In fact, it's an entire cast of suspicious characters. At sixty-four, Joe Pendergast isn't willing to give up his career working for Maxie...
A Man of Iron by Troy Senik
Thank you to a friend, David Chaudoir, for today's review of Troy Senik's book, A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland. David is a writer and an anthropologist. A MAN OF IRON: THE TURBULENT LIFE AND IMPROBABLE PRESIDENCY OF...