What Are You Reading?

August 08, 2019

Happy Thursday! I missed talking with all of you last Thursday, but I was spending time talking with my Mom and sisters, which was great. We had a wonderful visit. So, time to catch up. I did go back and read your comments, but it’s not the same. What have you...

The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh

August 07, 2019

Laura McHugh’s latest novel, The Wolf Wants In, has a tone of desperation. It’s a complex, large, messy family story, told by two desperate women in a community ravaged by the opioid crisis. Sadie Keller is one of the narrators, desperate to find out how...

The Hit by Nadia Dalbuono

August 06, 2019

While Nadia Dalbuono’s crime novel, The Hit, has been out in Australia and the U.K., this is the first edition published in the United States. The third Leone Scarmacio, set in the television world, is evidence of the author’s knowledge of that field. She...

Mrs. Morris and the Ghost by Traci Wilton

August 05, 2019

If you’re a fan of Cleo Coyle’s Haunted Bookshop mysteries, or loved J.J. Cook’s Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade series, I have a book for you! I’m a sucker for those paranormal cozies in which a female amateur sleuth falls for the ghost of a...

Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen

August 04, 2019

In the course of the Royal Spyness series, Rhys Bowen’s books have grown a little more serious. The two books that foreshadow World War II, including this one, Love and Death Among the Cheetahs, are quite serious. After a short honeymoon on a houseboat,...

Gumshoe Rock by Rob Leininger

August 03, 2019

When one of my summaries encourages a family member to start a series, I consider it a success. My sister went back to pick up the first in Rob Leininger’s series, Gumshoe, and she appreciated the humor. That’s good enough for me. I wish I...