Reviews + Articles
Best Paranormal – A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke
I was excited to read Olivia Blacke's mystery, A New Lease on Death. It just won the Anthony Award for Best Paranormal Mystery. It was okay, but it didn't work for me as a "Best" mystery. Cordelia Graves died a few months ago. The police called her death a suicide,...
The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
Today is release day for John Scalzi's The Shattering Peace. Although I enjoy Scalzi's books, I've never read one in his military science fiction series, Old Man's War. This is the seventh in the series, and I liked this one so much I'm waiting for the first one, Old...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Bump and Run by Richard Helms
I'm excited about tomorrow's book, one that I normally wouldn't read, but I'm loving it. Tomorrow is release day. And, on Wednesday, I'll have a recent award winner. Since I'm finishing both books, I was grateful for Kevin Tipple's review of Bump and Run by Richard...
Book Tasting
Yesterday was the book chat at my local public library, or what they call a "Community Book Tasting". I love to hear other reactions to books, and to hear what people are currently reading. I really appreciate the comments from a young man, former military, who reads...
The Patient by Tim Sullivan
Tim Sullivan's DS Cross books are police procedurals that really should be read in order. While Sullivan spent a great deal of time in the first book, The Dentist, introducing George Cross and the idiosyncrasies of his Asperger's syndrome, by the third book, The...
Dark and Deadly Be the Whispers by Heather Graham
If you've never seen her, that's author Heather Graham on the cover of her Krewe of Hunters novella, Dark and Deadly Be the Whispers. Like other recent novellas, this one takes place on a holiday weekend, Labor Day. Graham sends Jackson Crow and his wife and computer...