What Are You Reading?

May 16, 2019

Are you reading or have you read any of the Anthony Award nominees? The award nominees were announced yesterday, and they will be voted on, and presented at Bouchercon 2019 in Dallas on November 2. Before you tell us what you’re actually reading, here’s...

Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child

May 15, 2019

This past weekend, I actually read an eBook. I don’t often, but Karin Slaughter and Lee Child teamed up for a short story, Cleaning the Gold, and I can handle reading short stories digitally. Best of all, for those of you who don’t care to read...

Roger Wall, Guest Author

May 14, 2019

When Wiley Saichek of Saichek Publicity asks if I’ll host a guest author, he usually suggests that the author write about libraries. Wiley knows how much I appreciate those types of posts. Today, I’m hosting author Roger Wall, whose novel,...

Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon

May 13, 2019

Marcie R. Rendon’s Girl Gone Missing, the second Cash Blackbear mystery, is a strong followup to Murder on the Red River. Only a member of a Native American nation, as the author is, could tell such an authentic story of a brooding, displaced young woman....

Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault by Cathy Guisewite

May 12, 2019

What better day than Mother’s Day to review Cathy Guisewite’s Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault? The essay collection, like Guisewite’s “Cathy” cartoons, is filled with family relationships and guilt. It’s subtitled...

Milwaukee Noir, edited by Tim Hennessy

May 11, 2019

Milwaukee Noir, edited by Tim Hennessy, is the latest collection of dark stories from Akashic Books, who specialize in noir anthologies. There’s nothing positive nor uplifting about Milwaukee, if these stories are any indication. However, that’s the point...