A Peek Ahead

January 19, 2024

I’m not running a contest this week. After my move, I really don’t have a lot of books to give away. I did want to congratulate the winners of the last contest. Mark B. from Santa Clarita, CA won Murder Out of Character. Rental Person Who Does Nothing is...

Dream Town by Lee Goldberg

January 16, 2024

Anyone who enjoys police procedurals with humor should be reading Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin books. Dream Town is the fifth in the series, and it’s as strong as earlier entries. As always, Goldberg adds realistic details about crime to add to the...

No Way Out by Cara Hunter

December 12, 2023

Way back in September, I mentioned No Way Out, the D.I. Adam Fawley police procedural by Cara Hunter. It’s the third in the series, focusing on Fawley and his police team in Oxford, England. There have been two other books published in England, but they...

Lost Hours by Paige Shelton

December 05, 2023

While I’m a fan of Paige Shelton’s Alaska Wild series, in my opinion, Lost Hours isn’t the best of the five books. I found it confusing at times, with too many plotlines to keep straight. And, with the cliffhanger ending that I suspected was coming,...

Death Writes by Andrea Carter

December 03, 2023

Andrea Carter takes readers back to the Inoshowen Peninsula in Ireland for the sixth book in the series, Death Writes. While other books in the series have been described as atmospheric, in this one, the focus is not on the landscape, but on the people involved with...