Reviews + Articles
A Fatal Booking by Victoria Gilbert
Sometimes, three books in a series are enough. I'm not sure if Victoria Gilbert is going to continue the series after A Fatal Booking,, the third Booklover's B&B Mystery, but this one was enough for me. I was a little disappointed in the heroine's decision at the...
August Treasures in My Closet
Oh my gosh! If you can't find something to read in this list, you're not trying hard enough. There are almost forty August releases for my Treasures in My Closet post. While the book jacket placement might be a little funky since I seem to be having problems with...
Winners and Mysteries from Nature
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Tom D. from Missoula, MT won One-Shot Harry. Glen D. from Yuba City, CA won Small Felonies 2. The books are going out in the mail today. Despite the Supreme Court, at the moment we still have plants and bees in the...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you had some nice weather in the last week. I know I enjoyed opening up the house. Here we are with 90s and humid, then 80s and delightful, and this morning we were two degrees above a record low! It was still nice out. I can't complain about the last week. We...
Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride by Lorenzo Carcaterra
In conversation, I've said to a few friends that there haven't been a lot of mysteries that stood out to me this year. Lorenzo Carcaterra remedied that with his quiet mystery, Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride. He takes readers to Ischia, an island in the...
The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton
Mace Reid, Officer Kippy Gumm, and, best of all, Mace's cadaver dogs, are all back in the third book in the series, The Lost. While Mace's HRD, human remains detection dogs, especially Vira, are brilliant, and Kippy is streetwise and has flashes of inspiration, Mace...