Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley

August 22, 2022

Mindy Quigley kicks off a new cozy mystery series set in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin with Six Feet Deep Dish. I’ll admit I wasn’t so sure about the protagonist when I read Delilah (Dee) O’Leary’s description of herself as a micromanaging chef. But,...

Death Casts a Shadow by Patricia Skalka

August 21, 2022

Death Casts a Shadow is the seventh and final book in Patricia Skalka’s excellent Dave Cubiak Door County mystery series. Her notes at the end of the book say she completed the arc she had planned for Dave Cubiak. She took him from a broken man through almost...

What Are You Reading?

August 18, 2022

I don’t know about where you live, but we’ve had gorgeous weather for the last week or so – low humidity, temperatures in the 60s or 70s in the morning, and low 80s by evening. Just gorgeous. Able to turn off the air conditioning, and open the house....

Have You Heard? Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa kay Adams

August 17, 2022

I have several reasons for using Sandie Herron’s review of the audiobook, Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams. I’m on deadline this week, and I always can use a filler or two. And, Adams’ new book in the Bromance series, A Very Merry Bromance,...

Die Around Sundown by Mark Pryor

August 16, 2022

Mark Pryor, author of the Hugo Marston mysteries, kicks off a new series set in occupied Paris with Die Around Sundown. Those of us who are Americans seldom think about the people who lived through or fought in the Great War against the Germans, and then had to face...

Sparring Partners by John Grisham

August 15, 2022

I can’t tell you how long it has been since I read one of John Grisham’s books, but when I realized Sparring Partners contains three novellas, I put myself on the waiting list at the library. I’m a fan of a good collection, whether it’s...