A home restoration project for a reality TV home renovation pair of guys coupled in career and life just got spooky when they learn of the death there and the seeming haunting events that are occurring in the present. Frank Anthony Polito’s Domestic Partners in Crime series is new to me, but the setting of my […]
Was the artist murdered? What were Julia’s secrets? The Paris art world and Paris World’s Fair become the setting for Frances and George’s latest case. Dianne Freeman does a bang up job at setting the historical scene, writing a good twisting mystery and providing a pair of delightful amateur sleuths. An Art Lover’s Guide to […]
As war rages across Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, a married woman with her husband overseas tries to keep the home fires burning for herself and her children all while a serial killer is taking out the women Rosies working the factories of Seattle. Kevin O’Brien is a known mystery writer to me for […]
A researcher and her coworkers take a DNA test and a sister she never knew she had messages her from Puerto Rico. Familia is part women’s fiction and part mystery and I was all intrigued for a mystery story set in Puerto Rico. Lauren Rico introduces her book with an explanation of how it came […]
A story based on a real life woman writer, Irmgard Keun, who dared to stand against the Nazis? I couldn’t not enthusiastically take up The Novelist From Berlin by a new to me author about her own original heroine, Marie ‘Niki’ Rittenhaus. The Novelist From Berlin opens with a prologue from a seventy-one year old […]
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 […]
I’ve loved reading this FBI K-9 series. It’s one of the better ones for realistic work where the dogs are key in the story and do actual training and work. There is the police work the characters are doing with the dogs. The personal relationship of the teams, their friends and family is well developed. […]
Better Watch Out is a novella set in the world of Transplanted Tales and could be considered the 6th book of the series. Set as Christmas time, this is a fun look at Seth and Lavender’s life after settling down and having a little one of their own. Christmas is almost here and some of the […]
Now we are in the next generation with the children of the original characters of the Embraced series. It’s fun to see the parents who were the original folks I knew and loved, and now the trials and life decisions of their children as they find their places in life. I thought I wasn’t in […]
It was such a joy to read Murder at the Merton Library. I love everything from this found family and their strong, caring connections, to their love of science and arts, with their willingness to investigate and try to right the wrongs not just for themselves but others. With the progression of relationships and […]