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Aria’s Travelling Book Shop by Rebecca Raisin
If you’re a romance or women’s fiction reader, you might recognize the titles of some of Rebecca Raisin’s earlier books such as The Little Bookshop on the Seine or The Bookshop on the Corner. This time, she takes her characters on the road as...
Winners & A Recent Mystery Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Jane W. from Scottsville, VA won Clause & Effect. Cathy D. from Aiken, SC will receive Wed, Read & Dead. The books will go out in the mail tomorrow. There’s history and a cold case in the first...
What Are You Reading?
It’s the third week of the month, so I’m on deadline for Library Journal. I read four books over the weekend to review for them, and I’m finishing the last book today. That means I don’t have a book to discuss this week. I read all of those...
Graveyard Fields by Steven Tingle
In Steven Tingle’s debut, Graveyard Fields, he takes an inept cop turned equally incompetent private investigator, stomps him into the ground, and turns all of his actions into a tragic comedy. I don’t know when I felt so frustrated with a character,...
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
Lightning Strike is the eighteenth Cork O’Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger, but don’t hesitate to pick it up if you haven’t read the other books. The sensitive, moving book is a prequel, set in the summer of 1963 when Cork is twelve. Krueger...
Thomas Kies, Guest Author
I met Tom Kies at a Poisoned Pen book conference just about the time his first book, Random Road, was released. Now, his fourth Geneva Chase Crime Reporter novel, Shadow Hill, is out. His short bio on The Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s website doesn’t do...