Reviews + Articles
The Deepest Cut by P.J. Tracy
It’s been six years since P.J. Tracy’s last Monkeewrench novel, Ice Cold Heart. Yet when I started The Deepest Cut, I was sucked right back into the Minnesota world of Monkeewrench and the homicide team of Leo Magozzii and his partner Gino Rolseth....
Crescent City Christmas Chaos by Ellen Byron
I’m not sure I know any authors who love New Orleans more than Ellen Byron does. Despite a murder or two, and Ricki James-Diaz’ ongoing search for her birthmother, that love for the city, its food, and customs shines through Byron’s fourth book in...
Community Book Tasting
Saturday’s Community Book Tasting at the Canal Winchester Public Library was as enjoyable as ever. I’m not so sure about the December one, the last program before the Columbus Metropolitan Library opens the new much larger branch. The books selected for...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
I was off gallivanting yesterday (as Kevin Tipple would say) instead of reading. I went to the library book group, and then to Linda’s to watch the Ohio State football game. So, I’m turning the blog over to Kevin to review Michael Connelly’s...
Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan Patterson and Susan DiLallo with James Patterson
I skipped this novel when it came out a couple years ago. Things I Wish I Told My Mother is one of the selections for today’s book group at the library, and it’s the one I chose to read. It’s the story of a fraught mother/daughter relationship....
A Christmas Witness by Charles Todd
At 212 pages, Charles Todd’s A Christmas Witness is the longest novella I’ve ever read. It’s also tedious, and repetitive. Nothing happens except for a man who swears he sees a ghost and changes his life a la Charles Dickens’ A Christmas...