Reviews + Articles
May Treasures in My Closet
It's hard to believe it's time to talk about May book releases already. Now that winter's over, the year can start slowing down. I don't want to rush it. However, I do have a small selection of titles for you to check out. Mary Kay Andrews can be counted on for the...
Lights! Camera! Puzzles! by Parnell Hall
I don't usually read Parnell Hall's Puzzle Lady mysteries, but I'm always attracted to books set in New York City. Cora Felton, The Puzzle Lady, is featured in this one, while her niece, Sherry Carter, really has just a small supporting role. Cora hopes there's a star...
The Hidden Corpse by Debra Sennefelder
Last March, I reviewed Debra Sennefelder's first Food Blogger mystery, The Uninvited Corpse. http://bit.ly/2JsXEtx. I said it was a promising start, with an amateur sleuth with an unusual career as a food blogger. I was very enthusiastic about the supporting...
Winners and Food a la Death
Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Ashley C. from Knoxville, TN won Dark Streets Cold Suburbs, and Charlotte W. of Covington, GA will receive Lies Come Easy. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, there's food and humor in both...
What Are You Reading?
Let's talk about what we're reading today or this week. I'm now addicted to Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' Bill Slider police procedurals. I've read three in the last week, and, as I'm writing this, I have about 150 pages left in the third in the series, Necrochip. And,...
Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
I didn't know how the first Bill Slider mystery would hold up. I hadn't read any of the books in the series when I received the most recent one, Headlong, for review. I'm a fan of police procedurals, and this book introduced me to a group of fascinating...