Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
Everyone back from the Independence Day holiday? Are you ready to talk about what you're reading? I'm a fourth of a way into Jenny Colgan's latest novel, The Bookshop on the Shore. It's set in the Scottish Highlands where Colgan took us for The Bookshop on the...
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
I don't know when I smiled and laughed as much when I read a romance as I did with Christina Lauren's The Unhoneymooners. The premise was fun, and the characters sparkled on the page. It was sexy and humorous, a terrific combination. Olive Torres is maid of honor...
Author Interview – Carl Vonderau
I shouldn't be surprised when an author tells me what he read as a child, and the books turn out to be ones I remember fondly. Carl Vonderau's answer to that question jumped out at me. Today, I have an interview with Vanderau, author of a debut...
The Stories You Tell by Kristen Lepionka
Although I often tell readers to go back and read the first in a series, Kristen Lepionka's The Stories You Tell, the third in the Roxane Weary series, is a fine starting point. However, her first book, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best First PI...
Killer in the Carriage House by Sheila Connolly
Although Kate Hamilton, the amateur sleuth in Killer in the Carriage House, comes across as distracted, I was wondering if the author, Sheila Connolly, was distracted when she wrote this latest mystery. I know I had an ARC, so I won't mention errors I found in the...
The Shameless by Ace Atkins
Ace Atkins' ninth Quinn Colson novel needs to come with a label, "Warning. To Be Continued..." If there was ever a book with a cliffhanger ending, it's The Shameless. Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old boy, Brandon Taylor, went missing in the woods where he hunted...