Christmas Carols

December 07, 2018

Today, I’m going to channel the spirit of my sister-at-heart, Kaye Wilkinson Barley. I think I loved her before I ever met her because I appreciated the honesty of her rants on DorothyL. I have one of my own today. And, because Christmas carols involve words and...

What Are You Reading?

December 06, 2018

It’s Thursday, my favorite day of the week. What are you reading this week? I’m just a little into M.B. Shaw’s debut mystery, Murder at the Mill. It’s not Shaw’s first book, though. She’s a bestselling author under Tilly...

The Ice Maiden by Sara Sheridan

December 05, 2018

Sara Sheridan departs from her Mirabelle Bevins mysteries with The Ice Maiden, called “A historical adventure with a paranormal twist”. Are you ready for that historical adventure in Antarctica in the 19th century? In 1842, Karina, a widow, is stranded on...

Kitchen Yarns by Ann Hood

December 04, 2018

Ah, Ann Hood. I know she’s written other books, and I’ve read other ones, but I identified with her memoir/essay collection Morningstar: Growing Up with Books. Now, she has given us a memoir about another essential part of her life. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on...

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

December 03, 2018

I want to be like Helene Tursten’s character Maud when I’m eighty-eight years old. So, that’s a warning if any of you remember that in twenty-seven years. Tursten’s Detective Inspector Irene Huss makes two brief appearances in the story...

Bleak Harbor by Bryan Gruley

December 02, 2018

It’s been a few years since Bryan Gruley had his award-winning Starvation Lake series. He returns to Michigan, to a new town, in Bleak Harbor, a domestic thriller. When Danny Peters disappears, Carey Peters fears her sixteen-year-old son has run away for a...