A Day Off

August 17, 2020

Funny to say I’ve been on vacation this past week, but have nothing to post on the blog today. I do have an idea for tomorrow, and I need to work on it. I’m actually on deadline, and I’ve read eight books in the last week. But, I reviewed one here,...

Dirty Old Town by Gabriel Valjan

August 16, 2020

Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe is the model for how many private investigators? He defines that hero in The Simple Art of Murder. “He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of...

Have You Heard? Foreign Eclairs by Julie Hyzy

August 15, 2020

Between deadlines for a journal and life, I haven’t had time to finish the next book I’m reviewing here. But, Sandie Herron has a review of an audiobook I can share,  Foreign Eclairs by Julie Hyzy. As always, thank you, Sandie. Foreign Éclairs ...

Winners and a “Cops” Giveaway

August 14, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Please See Us will go to Sandy G. from North Plainfield, NJ, and The Girl Beneath the Sea goes to Dianne C. of Elk Grove Village, IL. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, I’m giving away three...

What Are You Reading?

August 13, 2020

How are you this week? I’m on vacation, although I’m at home. So, that gives me reading time! I’m reading on deadline, as usual. I’m also reading Gabriel Valjan’s PI novel,  Dirty Old Town. It’s set in Boston, and...

Patti Callahan’s Surviving Savannah

August 12, 2020

Here it is! I’m excited to share the cover for Surviving Savannah by New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan, on sale March 9, 2021. It’s inspired by the true and forgotten story of the sinking of the “Titanic of the South”. ...