Allision Brennan has been doing more stand alone mysteries. Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds has mysteries, a love of books, and a romance. The island setting is an amazing backdrop. Mia is a CPA taking a vacation before her promotion. Her dream is to run a bookstore, but she feels she needs the safe route […]
Christian White is a new-to-me author, and I had no idea what to expect from this story. Lately, I’ve been on a thriller kick, and this one sounded intriguing, so I decided to give it a try. Kimberly Leamy grew up in Australia with her mother, stepfather, and half-sister, living what she believed to be […]
King of Ashes is very much in the style I expect from this author. That doesn’t mean it is predictable, just that it tells a gritty story of what things are really like for some people. Bad people trapping others through fear and intimidation into horrible acts and situations. The Carruthers family includes the father […]
I enjoy a mystery thriller sometimes and this sort where a party on an island gets cut off and then the bodies start dropping is a standard. But the circumstances and characters make it all new. The Bachelorette Party is a group of women in a bridal party going to a retreat on an island. […]
I have really been enjoying the Mossa & Pleiti series with two women normally in an academic setting mystery.  Mossa is an investigator who is good at her work, but very uncertain in social circumstance. I’d almost say she is autistic but Pleiti also has the hesitation about things in their relationship. Pleiti is an […]
A locked room-style mystery in a haunted insane asylum, a gangster ghost other than Frankie, and more hair-raising mystery than Verity can shake a stick at made The Mint Julep Murders another sensational installment in Angie Fox’s Southern Ghost Hunter series of paranormal cozy mysteries. The Mint Julep Murders is the eighth in the series. […]
I am so happy to have another book in the Cormac Reilly series. Cormac is a homicide detective in Ireland and has been for 20 years. The Unquiet Grave brings us back to Cormac after he had some success after a horrible time in Good Turn. I feel so hurt on Cormac’s behalf. He works […]
I read Burton‘s unrelated Mace Reid K-9 Mystery series and liked it. The Dead Years starts off the Chicago K-9 Thriller series which I think will be a bit better. We have a brother and sister team who lost their parents in a car crash. Crystal was old enough to assume a quasi parental role […]
I needed to figure out a way to start reading series where I am not current or the series is finished but haven’t read them yet. So it’s a way to commit myself to read my backlist, particularly series. I’ve been wanting to read the DI Kim Stone for a long time. The […]
The Safari looked so interesting with its African setting and mystery genre.  There weren’t as many animals or much safari activity but the mystery was there like a remote place with bodies dropping. A wealthy family comes to their retreat lodging in South Africa. Their company has worked with sustainable, eco friendly products particularly clothing. […]