Reviews + Articles
Grand Slam Murders by R.J. Lee
Let me emphasize you do not need to know anything about bridge to read R.J. Lee's debut cozy mystery, Grand Slam Murders. I've never played bridge, and I know nothing about it, but the entertaining Southern characters will bring me back for the next...
Guest Author – Isabella Maldonado
Isabella Maldonado, author of the Veranda Cruz mysteries, is my guest author today. The first in the series, Blood's Echo, was the winner of the 2018 Mariposa Award for Best First Novel. It introduced Police Detective Veranda Cruz, who heads up an elite task...
A Velocity of Being edited by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick
A Velocity of Being is a difficult book to review. How do you review letters to children from various people, accompanied by illustrations by numerous artists? Instead, I think I'll just mention a few of the works that hit home with me. Maria Popova and Claudia...
The Murder Book by Lissa Marie Redmond
Lissa Marie Redmond, a retired cold case detective for the Buffalo Police Dept., returns with the second book in her Cold Case Investigation series, The Murder Book. Police detective Lauren Riley, who made some bad decisions in the first book, A Cold Day in Hell,...
March Treasures in My Closet
First, a little business. If you're looking for this week's giveaway, check the previous post. Fortunately, Friday giveaways and Treasures in My Closet seldom end up on the same day. March means a pile of books. It would also signal the calendar end of winter. Yay!...
Winners and Far East Murder Mysteries
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Caitlin M. from Hawthorne, CA will receive A Treacherous Curse. The Word is Murder will go to Laura R. of Kiel, WI. Just a note up front that this week's contest will be a day shorter. It needs to end on Wednesday,...