Reviews + Articles
Wedding Bel Blues by Maggie McConnon
"This place was crazier than I thought, much weirder than I remember, my family something of a bunch of oddballs with a host of secrets that they would go to great lengths to protect." When Belfast (Bel) McGrath has that realization, she doesn't know the half of...
Maggie McConnon Interview
Today, I'd like to welcome Maggie McConnon, author of Wedding Bel Blues, to the blog. So, this is a new author you have't heard of, right? Wrong. You may have heard of her as Maggie Barbieri. Either way, I'd like to introduce you to Maggie. You're a very mysterious...
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap by Wendy Welch
I vaguely remember thinking I wanted to read Wendy Welch's book when it came out in 2012, but that was the year I was applying for jobs and getting ready to move from Arizona. However, I follow Tales of the Lonesome Pine LLC on Facebook, and that reminded me of the...
Purrs of Wisdom by Ingrid King
Ingrid King knows a great deal about cats. She is a former veterinary hospital manager. She also blogs at the award-winning, long-running site, The Conscious Cat. Her latest book, Purrs of Wisdom: Enlightenment, Feline Style, is a collection of essays...
Winners and Arizona Crime Giveaway
It's always a surprise when my giveaways end up going to the same state. Mary Kay Andrews' The Weekenders is heading to Texas. Jane R. from Driftwood, TX won one copy, and Karen R. from Katy, TX won the other. Arizona is the setting for this week's crime novels. CB...
A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal
I made a serious mistake while I read Radha Vatsal's debut mystery, A Front Page Affair. I found myself criticizing Kitty Weeks, the young journalist/amateur sleuth for her naïveté. And, then I realized a nineteen-year-old young woman, brought up in Europe prior to...