Reviews + Articles

What Are You Reading?

I apologize for not being around much this week. My Mom and sister, Christie, came in to help me pack for my move, and that's what we did for long hours. No reading. No blog. Nothing else. Well, we did take time for a couple good meals. I really appreciate their...

Payback in Death by J.D. Robb

J.D. Robb takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the world of dirty cops and death in the fifty-seventh In Death mystery, Payback in Death. Fans of the series and the characters won't want to miss this one. Eve and her husband Roarke celebrated their third anniversary in...

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

Bundle up and stay warm as you read the third Detective Matthew Venn novel by Ann Cleeves. The Raging Storm takes readers to Greystone in Devon, a storm-tossed coastal community where townspeople volunteer to work on lifeboats to save struggling sailors. This time,...

Death by a Thousand Sips by Gretchen Rue

While I enjoy the Witches' Brew cozy mystery series by Gretchen Rue, amateur sleuth Phoebe Winchester irritated me at times in the second book, Death by a Thousand Sips. I can accept an amateur sleuth who is a suspect, and wants to clear her name, so she...

Murder Off Stage by Mary Miley

I hadn't read Mary Miley's Roaring Twenties Mysteries, although I have read her Mystic's Accomplice series, set in Chicago in the same time period, the 1920s. Murder Off Stage is the fifth in her Roaring Twenties series featuring Jessie Beckett, a former Vaudeville...

Kevin’s Corner Annex: The Best Laid Plans

I hope Kevin Tipple knows how much I appreciate his reviews. I have four reviews coming up, beginning tomorrow. That might be it for a week or so. In the meantime, thank you, Kevin. The Best Laid Plans anthology Reviewing an anthology takes far more skill and...