Last Day by Luanne Rice

February 03, 2020

I liked Luanne Rice’s suspense novel, Last Day. My biggest problem? I wanted to love it as much as I loved her book The Silver Boat. Rice often writes about sisters, their love for each other despite their differences. I bogged down in Last Day, though. It...

What Are You Reading?

September 19, 2019

I read all of your comments last week about what you were reading then. However, I read them late, and didn’t comment because I thought you probably wouldn’t come back to see the comments. After my dentist appointment today, though, I’ll be around to...

Buried in the Stacks by Allison Brook

September 11, 2019

While I have some nitpicking complaints about Allison Brook’s third Haunted Library mystery, Buried in the Stacks, I’ll save those and my recommendation for the conclusion. Brook does bring up a troublesome issue in public libraries; how to handle the...

Word to the Wise by Jenn McKinlay

September 06, 2019

I have the feeling that Word to the Wise is personal for author Jenn McKinlay. I haven’t asked her, but I read the acknowledgements. If you read the mystery, which is more disturbing than some of McKinlay’s books, read the acknowledgements, and let me know...

The Hidden Corpse by Debra Sennefelder

March 30, 2019

Last March, I reviewed Debra Sennefelder’s first Food Blogger mystery, The Uninvited Corpse. http://bit.ly/2JsXEtx. I said it was a promising start, with an amateur sleuth with an unusual career as a food blogger. I was very enthusiastic about the...