The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller by Cleo Coyle

September 19, 2018

In 2009, the fifth Haunted Bookshop mystery, The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion, came out. It was written under the name Alice Kimberly, a pseudonym also used by the authors who write as Cleo Coyle. On September 25, nine years later, the latest one in the...

Murder at Chateau sur Mer by Alyssa Maxwell

July 24, 2017

Don’t make the same mistake I did. If Alyssa Maxwell’s Murder at Chateau sur Mer sounds interesting to you, go back and start at the beginning of the series, not with the fifth book. I have an excuse. I was reading it for a review. But, you’ve been...

The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood

August 14, 2016

Pride and Prejudice. Anna Karenina. To Kill a Mockingbird. Ann Hood’s fictional book club discusses these and seven more titles in her latest novel, The Book That Matters Most. But, it’s a book from childhood that mattered the most to the the...

What the Waves Know by Tamara Valentine

February 23, 2016

I don’t know that I completely agree with the jacket copy that says Tamara Valentine’s debut novel is “In the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd and Beth Hoffman.” However, Valentine has given us a teen character with her own unique voice in What...

A Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva

April 09, 2015

I’m a fan of crime novels featuring investigative journalists, whether the reporter is Bruce DeSilva’s Liam Mulligan, Brad Parks’ Carter Ross, Bryan Gruley’s Gus Carpenter or Hank Phillippi Ryan’s Jane Ryland. They’re determined...