A Fatal Booking by Victoria Gilbert

Sometimes, three books in a series are enough. I’m not sure if Victoria Gilbert is going to continue the series after A Fatal Booking,, the third Booklover’s B&B Mystery, but this one was enough for me. I was a little disappointed in the...

August Treasures in My Closet

Oh my gosh! If you can’t find something to read in this list, you’re not trying hard enough. There are almost forty August releases for my Treasures in My Closet post. While the book jacket placement might be a little funky since I seem to be having...

What Are You Reading?

I hope you had some nice weather in the last week. I know I enjoyed opening up the house. Here we are with 90s and humid, then 80s and delightful, and this morning we were two degrees above a record low! It was still nice out. I can’t complain about the last...

Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride by Lorenzo Carcaterra

In conversation, I’ve said to a few friends that there haven’t been a lot of mysteries that stood out to me this year. Lorenzo Carcaterra remedied that with his quiet mystery, Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride. He takes readers to Ischia, an...

The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton

Mace Reid, Officer Kippy Gumm, and, best of all, Mace’s cadaver dogs, are all back in the third book in the series, The Lost. While Mace’s HRD, human remains detection dogs, especially Vira, are brilliant, and Kippy is streetwise and has flashes of...

A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman

I remembered how much I enjoy Dianne Freeman’s Countess of Harleigh mystery series when I felt bad for Lady Frances and George Hazelton when I read that her mother had been staying with her for four months before her wedding. Frances’ family is nothing but...