A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner

January 17, 2022

I have problems with graphic novels. Oh, I don’t object to them at all. I have problems with some of colors and overlapping words. Visually, I just can’t always see the words. But, we’re doing a genre study of graphic novels this month at the...

Have You Heard? – Linda Castillo’s Sworn to Silence

January 16, 2022

Sandie Herron just started one of my favorite series, Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder books. Because it’s been so long since I read Sworn to Silence, the first in the series, Sandie and I are sharing her review of the audiobook. Thank you, Sandie. Sworn...

Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Evil Men Do

January 15, 2022

I’ve been a little busy this week, and I have books to read this weekend for review for Library Journal, so I hope you’ll excuse me if I share reviews from a couple of my friends. First up, for Kevin’s Corner Annex, is Kevin R. Tipple’s review...

What Are You Reading?

January 13, 2022

As I write this, the meteorolgists haven’t decided if we’re going to get a dusting of snow this weekend, or up to seventeen inches. I’m voting for the dusting, but I don’t think I have a choice. The closer we get to the weekend, the more...

Margie Bunting’s Favorites of 2021

January 12, 2022

I’m always so happy to share one of our reader’s lists of favorite books of the past year. Today, Margie Bunting is talking about her Favorites of 2021. Margie is in her seventh year as editor of the newsletter for Sisters in Crime of Northern California....

Find Me by Alafair Burke

January 11, 2022

While NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher isn’t the primary focus of Alafair Burke’s Find Me, some of us who followed her over eight years ago finally have answers, as does Ellie. It takes a complex storyline and a missing woman, but Ellie finally has a...