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What Are You Reading?
Maybe I shouldn't have talked about the Blizzard of '78 last week on the blog. Look what happened to the East coast last weekend! And, as I'm writing this, we're expecting an ice storm to start tonight, and continue most of the day tomorrow - ice. There's nothing I...
Timothy Miller, Guest Author
Timothy Miller, author of The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter, is my guest blogger today. I hope you enjoy his conspiracy theory as much as I did. Timothy Miller is a native of Louisiana and a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. The Strange Case of the...
March Treasures in My Closet
I may be wrong, but it looks like March is going to give us a breather. I don't have as many March book releases here, so it might be a catch-up month for some of us. We can hope! Murder at the Porte de Versailles is Cara Black's twentieth Aimee Leduc Investigation...
Dying Fall by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
I only started reading the Inspector Bill Slider police procedurals in the last couple years, but I'm always eager to pick up the latest one. I'll admit though, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' Dying Fall was a little slow to get going. While Slider's team, including...
The Librarian Always Rings Twice by Marty Wingate
The third book in Marty Wingate's First Edition Library mystery series, The Librarian Always Rings Twice, is an intriguing story that includes an homage to Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek and an enviable collection of Golden Age Mysteries. But, this time, the...
Totally Pawstruck by Sofie Ryan
I was late coming to Sofie Kelly's Magical Cats series, and equally late coming to the series she writes under the name Sofie Ryan. Totally Pawstruck is the ninth in the Second Chance Cat mystery series. And, I know I'm to suspend disbelief in reading a cozy...