Desert Vengeance by Betty Webb

March 28, 2017

Recently, author Anne Perry posed a moral question. Should you do something morally repugnant to you in order to fulfill a duty? Private investigator Lena Jones faces a moral question in Betty Webb’s latest mystery, Desert Vengeance. Should she hunt for the...

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

March 27, 2017

There was something poignant about reading Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s memoir, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. I checked it out of the library when I read her piece in The New York Times, “You May Want to Marry My Husband,”http://nyti.ms/2mFk0fE....

Bel of the Brawl by Maggie McConnon

March 26, 2017

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” The quote from William Butler Yeats describes Belfast McGrath’s life. Maggie McConnon digs deeper into Bel’s pain in the second book...

Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany

March 25, 2017

Any Sherlock Holmes fan will recognize the “Elementary” from stories, movies, and TV, if not from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s actual work. Vicki Delany’s clever Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery, Elementary, She Read, is a wonderful addition...

Winners and Award Nominee Giveaway

March 24, 2017

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Courtney W. of Loceya Spring, AL won City of the Lost. Lisa G. from Pensacola Beach, FL won The Widower’s Wife. The books will go out today. This week, I’m giving away two books that feature journalists....

What Are You Reading?

March 23, 2017

What are you reading today? I’m enjoying the first Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery, Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany. I like the sleuth’s voice. Gemma Doyle moved from England to West London, Massachusetts where she’s part owner of Sherlock...