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If you want a quick mystery that you can curl up with and learn something about Botswana, and its culture, look no further than Alexander McCall Smith’s The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #8). Smith’s writing is easy on the eyes and…

A cozy bush mystery: Review of The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

December 29, 2016

If you like American Revolution historical fiction that is written in diary/letter form along with historical accounts (snippets of newspaper articles and the like), and portions of historically-significant works, you will like Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore’s Blindspot. This is one of the books from…

Early American Portraiture: Review of Blindspot

October 28, 2016

I had read Connelly’s The Book of Lost Things and so was prepared for the unusual, the strange, and just plain creepy when I agreed to review A Time of Torment. John Connelly’s A Time of Torment (Charlie Parker #14) reminds me of the movie…

Supernaturally Deranged: Review of John Connelly’s A Time of Torment

September 9, 2016

I have to admit if Most Wanted had not been selected by the physical book club (as opposed to virtual bookclubs in Goodreads) for our August meeting, I may not have picked up the novel. Now that I did, I am glad I did. Lisa…

An In Vitro Mystery: Review of Lisa Scottoline’s Most Wanted

July 25, 2016

July 20, 2016 1 New Book For Your TBR Amor Towles’s Adult Historical Fiction A Gentleman in Moscow Expected publication: September 2016. “A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant…

Waiting on Wednesday

July 20, 2016

For readers of mystery and crime set in the American West, Karin Salvalaggio’s newest novel, Walleye Junction (Macy Greeley #6) does not disappoint. Macy Greeley is a roving detective that is the lead investigator into the kidnapping, turned murder of a controversial talk show host…

Murderous Doctors: Review of Karin Salvalaggio’s Walleye Junction

July 16, 2016

April 13, 2016 2 New Books For Your TBR Emma Cline’s The Girls Literary Fiction Expected publication: June 14, 2016. Find it on Amazon. After reading Helter Skeleter, I have always been fascinated with Charles Manson so The Girls is one I look forward to reading. “Northern…

Waiting on Wednesday: Upcoming Book Releases

April 13, 2016

Try Not to Breathe is creepy in a realistic way. Although the story line concerns events in the past for Amy, the victim beaten and left to die, it is a crime that occurs all too often. Seddon to this reader shows why it…

Shouting From The Inside: A Review of Holly Seddon’s Try Not to Breathe

February 24, 2016

January 20, 2016 2 New Books For Your TBR V.E. Schwab’s Fantasy-Paranormal Time-Walking A Gathering of Shadows–2nd in the A Darker Shade of Magic series Expected publication: February 2016. Find it on Amazon. Three Londons: “But while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and…

Waiting on Wednesday

January 20, 2016

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Sixteen people are named by a paper products owner, a Mr. Westing, as his heirs. He gives them a challenge to find who killed him. Also riding on the solution is a pile of money; the heir who correctly solves the puzzle inherits Mr. Westing’s…

Murderous Heirs: Review of Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game

September 24, 2015