Last Call by Paula Matter

September 26, 2018

Last month, I interviewed Paula Matter, author of the debut mystery, Last Call, http://bit.ly/2OEesvq. Just this week, I had the chance to read the book, and there’s so much I like about this book. I could have used a list of characters, but bartender...

The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller by Cleo Coyle

September 19, 2018

In 2009, the fifth Haunted Bookshop mystery, The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion, came out. It was written under the name Alice Kimberly, a pseudonym also used by the authors who write as Cleo Coyle. On September 25, nine years later, the latest one in the...

Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett

August 18, 2018

I think I’m getting a little tired of the escapades of Stephanie Plum-like characters. Although Kellye Garrett’s second Detective By Day mystery,Hollywood Ending, is set in Hollywood, apprentice private eye Dayna Anderson and her best friend, Sienna, are a...

Scot Free by Catriona McPherson

April 09, 2018

Multi-award-winning author Catriona McPherson starts her new humorous series off with a bang. Literally. Her character is hiding in a closet during fireworks in Scot Free. And, those fireworks explode in Lexy’s life throughout the book. Lexy Campbell...

A Funeral in Mantova by David P. Wagner

March 05, 2018

If David P. Wagner’s A Funeral in Mantova doesn’t make you yearn for a trip to Italy to eat authentic Italian food, I think there’s something wrong with you. I know that’s not the purpose of Wagner’s latest Rick Montoya Italian mystery,...