Kate & Frida by Kim Fay

March 11, 2025

Kim Fay’s novel, Love & Saffron, was published in 2022, one of my favorite novels that year. It was subtitled “A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love”. I picked it up at the time because it was an epistolary novel, told in letters, and I’ll...

Playing Dead, edited by Martin Edwards

March 09, 2025

Before I dive into Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club, I want to mention the cover. This is perfect! The stories in this collection, edited by Martin Edwards, celebrate Simon Brett’s eightieth birthday. As Brett is the author of the...

Broken Fields by Marcie R. Rendon

March 08, 2025

Marcie R. Rendon, author of the powerful novel Where They Last Saw Her, brings back her series character, Cash Blackbear, in a another traumatic, thought-provoking mystery, Broken Fields. This time, it’s Cash and a young Native girl who suffer through current...

Kim Hays’ Favorite Books of 2024

March 07, 2025

Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome Kim Hays to the blog to talk about her favorite books read in 2024. Since Kim’s own series has been mentioned here several times, and the fourth in the Linzer and Donatelli series, Splintered Justice, is due out in April,...

What Are You Reading?

March 06, 2025

The dentist! It seems as if I’ve been to the dentist every week this year. Yesterday was my last appointment until June. Yay! It’s definitely March in Ohio. We had beautiful sunny weather, around 60 degrees on Tuesday. Started in the 50s on Wednesday. Then...

Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn

March 05, 2025

While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s Kills Well with Others, it wasn’t as fresh as the first book, Killers of a Certain Age. While the idea of four female retired assassins was new at the time of the first book, it seems there’s an abundance of these...