December Treasures in My Closet

November 01, 2019

Not quite as many books coming out in December, but most of us don’t have enough time to read then, anyways. Check out this month’s Treasures in My Closet. Alice Blanchard, author of Darkness Peering, launches a series with Trace of Evil. Burning...

Giveaway – Post-World War I Mysteries

October 31, 2019

This week, I’m giving away two mysteries set in the years immediately after World War I. Penny for Your Secrets is Anna Lee Huber’s Verity Kent mystery. In England in 1919, Verity Kent and her husband, Stanley, are still trying to recover their marriage....

Bouchercon 2019 – Dallas

October 30, 2019

I’m off to Dallas today for Bouchercon 2019, leaving the cats in good hands. And, the blog? Well, there’s a book contest that kicks off tomorrow. And, Friday is December Treasures in My Closet. I’m not doing What Are You Reading this week. Please...

Finding Christmas by Karen Schaler

October 29, 2019

Karen Schaler’s Finding Christmas was a little like falling into a Hallmark movie. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Schaler is the writer of a couple Hallmark movies, including “Christmas Camp”, and a Netflix one, “A Christmas...

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

October 28, 2019

Anyone who has read Edgar Allan Poe knows Kate Racculia’s latest book is going to be delightful. The opening of Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts is only three pages, but it captures the mysteries, loneliness and secrets that will unfold in the book. with the...

Laughing with Obama edited by M. Sweeney

October 27, 2019

Laughing with Obama, edited by M. Sweeney, is just the kind of book of photographs that some of us need right now. It’s nice to remember a President who spoke and joked with love. It’s subtitled “A Photographic Look Back at the Enduring Wit and...