Good Man Gone Bad by Gar Anthony Haywood

October 13, 2019

It’s been a long time since I read one of Gar Anthony Haywood’s books. In the mid-90s, I read the two books he wrote about Joe and Dottie Loudermilk, a retired African-American couple who traveled the U.S. in their camper. I had never read any of the Aaron...

The Second Goodbye by Patricia Smiley

December 09, 2018

Repeat after me, “I wish I had read the first book in the series, but you don’t have to do that to read this book.” It’s become a mantra. Sometimes, you just can’t start at the beginning. Detective Davie Richards is the featured detective...

The Frame-Up by Meghan Scott Molin

November 28, 2018

Welcome to the world of geek culture in Meghan Scott Molin’s fun, fast-paced mystery, The Frame-Up. Even if you don’t attend cons or read comic books, MG Martin’s world is entertaining. It’s repetitive to say it, but this is just a fun mystery....

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

November 17, 2018

How many of you had heard of the fire that destroyed almost half a million books and damaged several hundred thousand more at the Los Angeles Central Library? It happened on April 29, 1986, but the Chernobyl accident occurred on April 26, 1986, so the eyes of the...

Pale as Death by Heather Graham

October 28, 2018

I can always count on Heather Graham’s Krewe of Hunters books to allow me to escape. Pale as Death, with its connection to a mysterious historical murder, is a fascinating romantic suspense novel. When Detective Sophie Manning and her partner Grant Vining...