I Dreamed of Falling by Julia Dahl

September 17, 2024

Julia Dahl’s latest standalone, I Dreamed of Falling, is as dark as the cover. What do we really know about the people we love? And, what secrets are there in a small town? Roman Grady is the only reporter for a newspaper in a small Hudson Valley town. He covers...

Passions in Death by J.D. Robb

September 03, 2024

Passions in Death may be the fifty-ninth book in J.D. Robb’s Eve Dallas series, but the stories are still fresh. Best of all, though, is the chance to catch up with Eve Dallas, her husband, Roarke, and Dallas’ co-workers and friends. It’s the early...

Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

June 19, 2024

I read the 576-page novel Plum Island by Nelson DeMille. Unlike my brother-in-law, I won’t be moving on to other books featuring former homicide detective John Corey. Corey isn’t for me. And, I felt as if Plum Island was too bloated. It needed editing....

Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger

October 22, 2023

While Lisa Unger’s Christmas Presents was better than the other Christmas story I read recently, I think I’m going to stick with Charles Dickens for stories of the ghosts of Christmas past. Neither of the recent books are very Christmassy, in my opinion....

Frozen Detective by Amanda Flower

January 23, 2023

I wonder where Amanda Flower would have taken the characters of the Piper and Porter cozy mystery series if Hallmark Publishing hadn’t closed down. Frozen Detective follows Dead-End Detective, the mystery that introduced private detective Darby Piper and her...