Reviews + Articles
The Parting Glass by Lissa Marie Redmond
Despite allusions to Buffalo Police Detective Lauren Riley's Icelandic adventures in A Full Cold Moon, there's no reason a newcomer to the series can't pick up The Parting Glass. I admit that it's more interesting if you're already familiar with Lauren's tendency...
Winners and Dogged Women Sleuths
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Carol K. from Omaha, NE won The Stolen Letter. Brooklyn Legacies will go to Patti A. from Madison, NH. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving away two books featuring dogged women...
What Are You Reading?
First, how are you all, especially those of you on the east coast? I hope Tropical Storm Elsa isn't treating you too badly. I spent eighteen years living on Florida's Gulf Coast, so I know what it's like to deal with tropical storms and hurricane warnings. I still...
Little Black Book by Kate Carlisle
Before discussing Kate Carlisle's fifteenth Bibliophile mystery, Little Black Book, I wanted to praise the cover artist. Because I read a .PDF, I have no idea who Berkley picked for the artist, but this cover is just stunning, and details are so accurate, from the...
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
S.A. Cosby's 2020 release Blacktop Wasteland was nominated for all kinds of awards. If Razorblade Tears, this year's standalone, isn't nominated, something is wrong with the system. It's one of the best books I've read this year. On the surface, the only thing Ike...
The Lost Girls by Jessica Chiarella
Jessica Chiarella's The Lost Girls is a novel outside my comfort zone, but one I enjoyed much more than I expected. I'm not a fan of unreliable narrators. What's more unreliable than a woman still stuck emotionally at the age of eight, who destroys her marriage by...