What Are You Reading?

August 24, 2023

No one had big complaints about the weather last week, except for the heat. Now, with last week’s tropical storm in California, and the results of the storm that hit Texas, I’m hoping everyone is okay. We’re only having heat – temperatures...

Halloween Cupcake Murder

August 23, 2023

Don’t touch that cupcake! Or, I should say, don’t touch that cupcake if it gets close to Halloween. Three authors , Carlene O’Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry offer their amateur sleuths the chance to celebrate Halloween, despite a cupcake of...

The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell

August 22, 2023

The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell marks the debut of the Crescent Cove queer cozy mystery series. As with any cozy series, it introduces the amateur sleuth, the setting of the series, and explains how the main character ended up in that town. I have to admit...

Fadeaway Joe by Hugh Lessig

August 21, 2023

Hugh Lessig’s debut crime novel, Fadeaway Joe, introduces an unlikely duo, and an unreliable narrator not easily forgotten. In fact, it’s an entire cast of suspicious characters. At sixty-four, Joe Pendergast isn’t willing to give up his career...

A Man of Iron by Troy Senik

August 20, 2023

Thank you to a friend, David Chaudoir, for today’s review of Troy Senik’s book, A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland. David is a writer and an anthropologist. A MAN OF IRON: THE TURBULENT LIFE AND IMPROBABLE...

What Are You Reading?

August 17, 2023

We made it to Thursday! I do have book reviews scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week, so it won’t be an entire week of nothing. The weather here has been unusual for August, only in the high 70s yesterday. They say 77 and sunny as I write this,...