Strip for Murder by Dolores Hitchens

March 12, 2022

Strip for Murder is a reprint of Dolores Hitchens’ novel published in 1958 in Mercury Mystery Magazine. It’s the kind of noir novel that Stark House Press specializes in republishing. This edition contains the novel, two additional short stories, a short...

What Are You Reading?

March 10, 2022

I’m going to start today’s book chat with a quote from author Lisa Gardner. She was recently interviewed for “By the Book” in The New York Times Book Review. This comment is perfect for Thursdays. “The next best thing to reading a novel...

Sins of Edom by Carl Brookins

March 08, 2022

There’s so many directions a reviewer could go with Carl Brookins’ Sins of Edom. The mystery is one of his Senior Sleuth novels featuring Alan Lockem, a retired army intelligence officer and his partner, Marjorie Kane, a retired exotic dancer with...

All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett

March 07, 2022

Sometimes, the second book in s series doesn’t live up to the first one. That’s not the case with S.J. Bennett’s second Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery, All the Queen’s Men. For some reason, I found the mystery and the characters...

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

March 06, 2022

There was Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun. I read it, but the book that really makes me want to visit Italy is Rebecca Serle’s novel, One Italian Summer. And, it’s not Rome or Florence or Venice. It’s Positano on the Amalfi Coast, with its...

Sandie’s Corner – Pray for Silence

March 05, 2022

I have two books to finish and review here on Sunday and Monday. In the meantime, Sandie Herron is stepping in with the second Kate Burkholder novel by Linda Castillo, Pray for Silence. She’s been tearing through the series, and I have reviews to post when I...