Death Scene by Carol J. Perry

August 19, 2024

I love Carol J. Perry’s Witch City cozy mysteries. I will admit I guessed the killer in the first third of the book, but there are a few cozy series I read for the characters and setting rather than the mystery itself. So, it didn’t really matter to me...

Whisper Room by Thomas Kies

August 02, 2022

Thomas Kies follows his Sue Grafton Award nominee, Shadow Hill, with another compelling mystery featuring Geneva Chase, a crime reporter whose drinking cost her a career. Now, the journalist is working freelance in her Connecticut hometown. It’s a call from the...

All These Ashes by James Queally

September 28, 2021

I’ll read almost any crime novel featuring a journalist. A journalist turned PI? I’m in. James Queally’s All These Ashes brings back Russell Avery in the sequel to Line of Sight. While I didn’t read the first one, I’d suggest interested...

Thomas Kies, Guest Author

August 16, 2021

I met Tom Kies at a Poisoned Pen book conference just about the time his first book, Random Road, was released. Now, his fourth Geneva Chase Crime Reporter novel, Shadow Hill, is out. His short bio on The Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s website doesn’t do justice...

Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews

May 06, 2020

I am a sucker for books about reporters; fiction, mysteries, memoirs. Mary Kay Andrews, who is a former journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, brings readers a fabulous novel, the story of one reporter, the dying newspaper business, a small town...