Reviews + Articles
Christmas Cocoa Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Maddie Day & Alex Erickson
Carlene O’Connor, Maddie Day and Alex Erickson have more in common than the facts that they write cozy mysteries featuring amateur sleuths. Each of their novellas in Christmas Cocoa Murder features cocoa. Well, duh. Of course. They are also all enjoyable...
Winners and A “Bitter” Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Ice Cold Heart will go to Christopher S. in Eden, NY. Mark B. from Santa Clarita, CA won Iced in Paradise. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I’m giving away two “bitter”...
No Judgments by Meg Cabot
Sometimes, a fun, humorous romance is just the perfect escape. When it’s a Meg Cabot book set in the Florida Keys, it’s even better. In No Judgments, Cabot creates great characters; quirky, odd, kind, and giving. Throw in an enormous cast of...
What Are You Reading?
Although I’m reading an excellent book, Jane Harper’s The Lost Man, I want to tell you what I did yesterday, and what I’m going to be reading. I went to St. Louis with a friend and blogger, Kathy Boone Reel, who blogs at...
The Bodies in the Library by Marty Wingate
Marty Wingate kicks off a new cozy series, The First Edition Library Mysteries, with The Bodies in the Library. To be honest, I preferred the police over the amateur sleuth, though. For a change in a debut cozy, the investigating police officers are kind and...
Lives Laid Away by Stephen Mack Jones
Undocumented immigrants. ICE. Missing young women. Sex trafficking. If it sounds as if it’s the latest newspaper account of Trump’s policies, it’s not. Stephen Mack Jones’ second August Snow novel, Lives Laid Away, gives a whole new...