Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
Thursday! I’m looking forward to finding out about your reading choices this week. What have you been reading? Catching up on your TBR pile, or trying something new? I should have finished Josh Dygert’s The Story Traveler several days ago. After I lent...
Sandie’s Corner – William Kent Krueger’s Lightning Strike
I reviewed William Kent Krueger’s Lightning Strike when it was released because I was lucky enough to review it for Library Journal. It never hurts, though, to run another person’s review. I’m in the middle of a book, so I can talk about it...
The Shadow of Memory by Connie Berry
While I liked Connie Berry’s The Art of Betrayal, I loved the fourth in her Kate Hamilton series, The Shadow of Memory. The traditional mystery is carefully plotted, and all the pieces fit together beautifully. The characters, the antiques, and the setting...
And By Fire by Evie Hawtrey
Three hundred fifty years separate two pairs of detectives, but they’re linked more closely than either would suspect in Evie Hawtrey’s intriguing mystery, And By Fire. While I found the contemporary police procedural more fascinating, the storyline...
Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang
What a perfect cover for Christopher Huang’s Unnatural Ends. It’s a complex puzzle, a trap set in a North Yorkshire estate in 1921. But, the trap was planned years earlier. In April 1921, the three children of Sir Lawrence Linwood return home to Linwood...
New York, New York
I promised you pictures and the story of my recent trip to New York City to receive the Raven Award from Mystery Writers of America. There were other moments in the trip, too. I flew into New York on Wednesday, April 27. The Marriott Marquis Times Square was the...