Written Off by E.J. Copperman

June 18, 2016

How many of you are old enough to remember Remington Steele? The Remington Steele Detective Agency was actually owned by a woman, but, because the TV show started in 1982, she needed a man’s name, and a man as a frontman. She ended up working with a man who...

Winners and Laura Bradford Giveaway

June 17, 2016

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Carol M. from Monroeville, PA won Con Lehane’s Murder at the 42nd Street Library. I’m sending Elaine Viets’ Checked Out to Deanna S. from Lexington, KY. When Laura Bradford was here on...

Lois Duncan, R.I.P.

June 16, 2016

It was a year ago tomorrow that I reviewed Lois Duncan’s book, One to the Wolves. She sent it to me, asking if I would read and review it. It was her follow-up to Who Killed My Daughter?, the first book she wrote about her search for answers to the tragic...

Rebel Sisters by Marita Conlon-McKenna

June 15, 2016

I had never heard of Marita Conlon-McKenna, who is an Irish Times bestselling author. But, her book, Rebel Sisters, deals with three sisters of a large Irish family who became part of one of the tragic events of their times, the Easter Rising. And, this year is...

Juggling Books

June 14, 2016

OK, speak up if you’re one of those people who read multiple books at a time. (Jeff, I’m pointing at you.) That’s my topic for today because friends stopped by to visit last night, so I didn’t finish my current book. I’m almost always...

The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

June 13, 2016

Neil Gaiman takes my breath away with his vision of everything, how he looks at the world. Of his collection, The View from the Cheap Seats, he says, “This book is not ‘the complete nonfiction of Neil Gaiman.’ It is, instead, a motley bunch of speeches and...