Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell

September 08, 2016

Juliet Blackwell, author of The Paris Key, takes us back to that city in another atmospheric, intriguing  story, Letters from Paris. It’s a story of longing, and pain, and loss, wrapped up in art, sculpture, food and wine, in secrets. Claire Broussard...

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHale

March 19, 2016

I’ll admit for a while I wasn’t fond of the narrator in Celeste Fletcher McHale’s debut novel, The Secret to Hummingbird Cake. But, stick with it. This is not your typical chick lit book, and Carrigan Whitfield learns a few hard lessons in the course...

The Wedding Tree by Robin Wells

November 25, 2015

It’s probably the best recommendation I can give women’s fiction; recommended to my mother. I think she’ll appreciate Robin Wells’ epic novel, The Wedding Tree. At 91, Adelaide McCauley is ready to die when she finds herself looking down...

Dead with the Wind by Miranda James

September 28, 2015

Some amateur sleuths seem out-of-place and awkward when they leave their home environments. Not so with Miranda James’ octogenarian Ducote sisters, An’gel and Dickce. The two Southern grandes dames are perfectly at home on a plantation in Louisiana. And,...

Plantation Shudders by Ellen Byron

August 19, 2015

The other day, a friend referred to her reading, and said sometimes nothing is as satisfying as “death and mayhem”. She’s right. And, when that death and mayhem happens in a debut mystery, a mystery in which I don’t guess the killer, there...