This is another Detective D.D. Warren story. So far, I would say that you can read each story without having read the previous books in the series. They all seem to stand on their own pretty well. Each story follows a case. This case is about the Harrington family. They are all found murdered, the […]
Q & A with Dannika: Was the Mageri universe something you set out to create from the beginning or was it happenstance that then led to all the other series you’ve written being in the same universe? It wasn’t a plan from the start, but I was immediately drawn to the fresh supernaturals and […]
When looking for a stand-alone book in between series, my go to  is the Reese’s Book Club, mostly because there is a great selection of mysteries featuring strong, capable women. This is how I found Denise Mina’s Conviction; part adventure thriller, part true-crime podcast, and completely engrossing. I had no idea what the story was […]
I’ve really been getting into these D.D. Warren books. I started off reading the books while on vacation this summer. Now that I’m back at home, I’ve gone back to my normal reading medium, audiobooks. While the first two books in the D.D. Warren series didn’t have a huge amount of D.D., the Boston PD […]
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 have been wanting to read the Joe Pickett series for awhile after reading […]
I’ve been reading the series from the library and enjoying the audiobook version. In fact, Risk didn’t have an ebook at my libraries so I had to enlist Brandee to help with a quote since it’s hard to save quotes in an audio format. Risk is both Simon’s story and an epilogue to the Mageri […]
When Dana Schwartz’s novel Anatomy ended with some unresolved story arcs, it was an easy decision, well, more like a necessity, to pick up Immortality: A Love Story, the second and final installment in The Anatomy Duology. I expected a continuation of Hazel’s journey towards being a surgeon mixed with a gothic mystery set in […]
The Christies are away, the new vacuum cleaner is in route, the maids are love crazy over the new valet, and a mysterious invitation to a murder is delivered to Mallowan Hall. Phyllida soon discovers that someone is not playing games when the corpse at the party turns out to be truly dead. Colleen Cambridge’s […]
In fall of 2023, I first read this book out of order as a new release for the New Hercule Poirot Mysteries series. I vowed then and there I was going back for the whole series and chose to borrow them as audios from the library. I made good on this series reading binge […]
I always like to start my reviews with the reason I picked up this particular book. Sometimes it is the cover, sometimes it is a well-loved author’s latest release, and sometimes it is because the author mentioned her book during her appearance on my favorite game show. That is too specific a scenario to not […]