Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman

May 20, 2015

Anne Hillerman has a gift for descriptive writing about the Southwest. She may have inherited her father’s characters, Leaphorn and Chee, but she took that inheritance and made it her own. She puts her own spin on the descriptions, the characters, and the...

Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews

May 18, 2015

I’ve been a Mary Kay Andrews fan since the early ’90s when she was writing mysteries under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck. And, as much as I liked those books, and have enjoyed some of her standalones written under Andrews, she’s moved up a notch...

Fillet of Murder by Linda Reilly

May 17, 2015

Something’s fishy in the Wrensdale Arcade, a group of shops in the Berkshires designed as an old English village. And, Talia Marby is just the person to discover why so many people disliked Phil Turnbull, and which of them hated him enough to kill...

Murder with a Twist by Tracy Kiely

May 16, 2015

A toast to Tracy Kiely for her wonderful, entertaining homage to The Thin Man. From the opening  scene when Nicole (Nic) watches her husband, Nigel Martini, dragged into the bar by an enormous Bullmastiff named Skippy, the reader knows Murder with a Twist is...

Winners and a New York City Giveaway

May 15, 2015

Congratulations to the winners of the last contests. Judith L. of Claremont, CA won the copy of Craig Johnson’s Any Other Name. Carola Dunn’s Heirs of the Body will go to Barbara L. from Redding, CA. And, The Revenant of Thraxton Hall is going to Anita Y....