When I spotted that this was recommended for fans of Agatha Christie and TE Kinsey, I had to take a closer look and then decided I must give this new to me series and author a try with its Golden Age of British Mystery, time period setting and a pair of snappy amateur detectives. The […]
A house full of ghosts and old, dark family secrets and a woman who realizes the answers are locked inside her shadowy memories of the past. Dark and ominous, my first bout with Shannon Morgan’s Gothic Fiction will not be my last. Her Little Flowers is a ghost story that is seated in a fifty […]
A human woman looking for a reset on her life leaps out of the city and her dying career to take a leap of faith on opening a new coffee shop in a mountain small town predominantly populated by supernaturals. A not-so-great meet cute with the grumpy orc baker next door launches their grumpy-sunshine sizzling […]
Post-grad Anthropology student, DJ Abbott, was determined to have a summer internship far from her polar opposite parents back in Cleveland, OH, and in desperation applies for eccentric (read crackpot) billionaire, Hank Honeycutt’s need for an anthropologist for a summer project in the desert near his ranch house in northern Arizona. An easy job, she […]
An internationally famous Irish authoress changes her will, leaving her estate to a dying man, and invites Poirot and Catchpool to her estate for the event. A bizarre turn of events follows. Poirot and Catchpool must solve a murder and everyone in the family and household has secrets. Closed Casket is the second standalone historical […]
For several years, I’ve seen fellow historical romance fans adoring Tessa Dare’s Spindle Cove series and I finally took the chance to sample the goods. After this encounter, I foresee a continuation to polish off the full series. Once Upon a Winter’s Eve is a novella that falls between the first and second full-length books […]
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ends with the new Mrs. Darcy inviting all their family and friends for Christmas and leaving readers with a happy glow of satisfaction. But, what came after the happily ever after? Sophie Turner explores a new harder, darker path for Jane Austen’s romantic couple adding gothic overtones, angsty courtroom […]
Coming of age during WWII and doing her bit to serve her country far from home, a young woman learns to shake off the shackles she has long worn of grief and guilt over her dad’s stroke and show just how brilliant her mathematical brain can be. I don’t read much Young Adult these days, […]
A farmhouse in smalltown Iowa with a history of death and vanishing. If ghosts walk, they walk there the locals know and two women separated by more than a century are connected to the house by death. A deeper connection slowly surfaces as the danger grows more acute on Predicament Avenue. I have seen a […]
Something wipes out technology around the world and there is a reset back to primitive hunter/gatherer society in what was once the southwestern US. A woman has been surviving alone almost as a ghost until bad luck finds her in the form of a pack of scavenging men. Her rescuer is competent and sure- and […]