KaLyn Cooper grabbed my attention and never let me go until the last word. I never thought I'd ever visit Columbia yet with every word I felt surrounded by the fabulous locale and the beautiful places I would never get to see. Harper Tambin...
4½ StarsJacqueline Diamond delivers an in depth mystery with this contemporary thriller. Dr. Eric Darcy is the perfect conduit for the reader to witness the events and action unfold. He seems to live his life the same way he practices medicine, wit...
4½ StarsThe Ridge, by John Rector, is one of my favorite genres- horror suspense without all the blood and guts. This book is definitely character driven and I love the character development. Megan is what we all strive to be, curious and independe...
4½ StarsA criminal defense lawyer's career and family life is put to the test as a murder is committed and there is a possible link to his family including himself committing the murder. How could this be possible? With blackmail in the mix, Mick M...
4½ Stars“Snowed in with murder” written by Auralee Wallace is a good book that is part of a series called the “Otter Lake” mystery. The story is funny. The characters get into trouble in the most unusual ways. The characters were a joy to read to a...
4 StarsDesign for Murder is a terrific story! This is my first read in this series. I've watched the TV series and in many respects this book mirrors the characters from the show very closely. I enjoyed this novel from the get go. The characters a...
4 StarsAn outstanding novel from the get go! Lots of action and plenty of time to figure out who killed the school janitor. The ending is sudden, but does tie everything up neatly. Great character development and light-hearted moments also aid in...
4½ StarsAnother outstanding novel by Cleo Coyle which will keep you busy reading, cooking, or eating! In any case, this is one novel you will not want to put down once the story is over as the recipes look as yummy as they sound in the book. With g...
5 Stars“Shadows on the Lake” by Giovanni Cocco and Amneris Magella- Translated by Stephen Sartarelli “Shadows on the Lake” is an absorbing mystery steeped in atmosphere and tragic history, against a backdrop of beautiful Italian scenery. Inspector...
4 Stars"The Measure of the Moon", by Lisa Preston, starts off with a bang. Greer Donner pulls us immediately into the story when he falls from his horse and is left out in the wild. His worried family is a story in itself just by the vastness and...
4½ StarsThis is the third book in Ms. Boon’s Seal Team Phantom Series. It continues with the story line of a member of the team turning and no one is sure if he was the only one. The story is totally action packed with chases, gun fire and some rea...
5 Stars“Forged in Desire” by Brenda Jackson provides a frightening look at the possible cost for doing one’s civic duty even as it follows a delicious romance that evolves in the face of danger. The slow buildup of a relationship that is formed wh...
4¼ StarsA.R. Ashworth shows some real promise with his debut British mystery featuring Detective Inspector, Elaine Hope, but will need to make a few improvements in order for this to be a successful, long running series. When a young girl is beaten...
3¼ StarsSomewhere in the forested areas of Ireland a couple blokes find themselves in a situation that has ended up in a cloud of mystery. Seam Duffy's life is in turmoil and he has to try to keep his demeanor in solving this mystery. This was a di...
2½ Stars“Cat Got Your Cash” is the second book in the Kitty Couture series! We meet up again with Lacy Crocker, months after solving her last murder, and she’s on her way to a business meeting with her fashion idol, Annie Lane. But what was suppose...
5 StarsA bombing in Las Vegas has FBI agent Paul Grale seeking a personal vendetta. Paul is a special agent and a bomb tech. With his family dead and a possible target being one of his closest friends, Paul is faced with a quandary. He has the bac...
3½ StarsIn “Kill the Father” the police find a beheaded woman in the park. They soon find out her young son is missing. They think they have it all figured out. Of course the husband did it! So they arrest him. But this turns out to be too easy and...
4 StarsT.R. Grady creates a fantastic small town mystery tale. Frankie James is a determined woman. She has the skills do to her job and the patience to deal with all the opposition she faces. I enjoyed how she didn't get too emotional but she als...
3½ StarsIf you need a break from the serious books, then this one is for you. You will find this book to be funny and yet there is a little sexiness to it. At times you will find yourself laughing and you can't stop. The author has really given a s...
3 StarsAuthor Robin Yocum gives quite a variety of characters, most on the dark side of life. The story in “A Welcome Murder” takes place in a once prominent and very upbeat Ohio steel town. Now the beauty is gone and it is slowly rotting to the g...
5 StarsSuzanne Rossi delves into the past and risks the future in this fabulous mystery. Callie Bryant is such a strong and determined woman and I felt almost as invested as she was in finding out who killed her mother so many years ago. While her...
4½ StarsAs someone who appreciates having cute animals on the book covers, I was the perfect target audience for David Rosenfelt’s "Twelve Dogs of Christmas". Readers can tell the story was written by an animal advocate and talented writer. The mys...
4 StarsDemons, Descriptions, and a Fabulous story await the reader of "Toward a Secret Sky"! It all starts off with Maren moving to Scotland, which let me tell you with the craze that is Outlander I was very happy to have this setting again! Maren...
5 Stars"Hurricane" is a well-crafted, twisty suspense novel, packed with sexy romance and high seas adventure! Cherry Adair's fifth installment in the Cutter Cay series is fast paced and action packed. This one has an added touch of intrigue, but...
4 StarsImagine a world where every man has suddenly been hardwired into a frenzied animal, intent on killing every woman he sees. After a gene-splicing experiment goes horribly awry, this is the reality that Allie Hilts faces every day. After watc...
5 StarsAbbie Roads just keeps getting better. I really enjoyed her first two novels so I was excited to see the latest as the first in a series. "Saving Mercy" focuses on the aftermath of a horrible trauma and a man who was programmed from childho...
4½ StarsAuthor Gayle Leeson brings us the second entry in her Down South Café series. Amy Flowers is busy making pies and cakes for the Independence Day holiday. Enter George Lincoln, who is still trying to buy her café so her can tear it down and...
4 StarsLena Gregory gives us the second entry in her Bay Island Psychic Mystery series. Cass is hosting a murder mystery weekend at a haunted mansion. Complicating things is the arrival of her ex-husband and his wife. Shortly afterward one of the...
4 StarsThe town of Wrensdale is abuzz with excitement when Steeltop Foods sponsors a cooking contest to promote its new product, the Flavor Dial. With a $25,000 prize at stake, all the contestants are on edge, including Talia Marby, owner of Fry M...
4 Stars“Silk Stalkings” by Diane Vallere is a fun romp through a small town beset by beauty pageant fever with the complications that come from a murder in its midst. The quirky characters such as Poly, who has to bear the burden of being conceive...
4¼ StarsCynthia Eden’s latest romantic suspense centers around lost love and an unsolved kidnapping. Abduction is the story of Jillian West, a burned out FBI agent and Sheriff Hayden Black. Even in this shorter novel Cynthia Eden writes gripping an...
4½ StarsSharon Ervin weaves an intriguing tale in this contemporary mystery. Memory Smith is almost too good to be real and I enjoyed getting to know to woman behind the town legend. She is definitely a unique woman. Her bravery and her straightfor...
3½ Stars“After the Dark” by Cynthia Eden is an action-packed thrill-ride of a tale that starts with an exciting scene and keeps the tension going for the entire book. I love it when the heroine and hero are equally capable and their partnership is...
4½ StarsI simply loved this second book in the Haven Brotherhood series. This book deals mainly with Zeke Dugan and Gabrielle “Gabe” Parker. The author has readers flipping the pages with this trauma doc engine mechanic duo. It feels like magic as...
5 StarsFor a brief period of time, I wondered if the Eve Duncan saga was getting a little stale. I wasn’t unhappy that Eve had gotten closure and was going to settle into her happy ever after, but I was going to miss her and all of the intriguing...
4½ Stars“A Death in the Dales” is the first book by Frances Brody that I have read. I wasn’t sure that I would like a British mystery, especially because the colloquial speech of Britain is so different. Phrases and words were foreign to me and for...
4½ Stars"The Last Night at Tremore Beach" is a solid debut thriller which mixes a shivery supernatural element in with a puzzling crime drama. Peter Harper is going through both a professional and personal crisis. Needing to take some time for hims...
3½ StarsThe Fifth instalment in the League of Literary Ladies mysteries has the girls reading Margaret Mitchell’s saga of the South, Gone with the Wind. But there’s one situation on South Bass Island that they wish would simply blow over. Kidnapped...
4 StarsSo, the real-life 221B Baker Street is not actually the home of the famous detective in real-life London? Oh, ow. I had seen pictures from fans of Sherlock Holmes in London about 221B Baker Street, as well as other famous real-world locatio...
5 StarsThere were several things I liked about "The Undesired", by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. The setting was really neat. I've never lived, or even visited, a place where it is cold a good deal of the year. I enjoy books about groups of people living t...
3½ StarsMorgan C. Talbot introduces the most deliciously literary cozy mystery with this fabulous read. Pippa Winterbourne is one of the most engaging heroines I've ever encountered. Moorehaven is one of the most delightful settings I have ever rea...
5 StarsAmity Allen presents a perfectly delightful cozy mystery with the first in her series starring Poppy the former teen tv star. Poppy Parker is a fun and fresh addition to the ranks of amateur sleuths. As a teen celebrity I was expecting her...
4 StarsWe have a sociopath twisting people around his little finger. But the author puts doubt in your mind as to if the people are manipulating the sociopath or is the sociopath manipulating the people? This causes the investigator, Servaz to con...
4 StarsImagine my delight and excitement over reading the novel "Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell" by Paul Kane. I am a fan of both Sherlock Holmes and the Hellraiser movies, and I do enjoy Clive Barker’s other works. I anticipated reading...
5 StarsNICO is the first book in a new series by Sarah Castille called Ruin & Revenge. The series title is very significant to the entire books and I'm sure it will play out even more in the books to come. Mia is supposed to play the part of the p...
5 Stars"Dead and Breakfast" is a cozy mystery about Melanie West, a thirty-two divorcee who opens up a bed-and-breakfast with her grandmother. While they’re renovating a bedroom, they stumble upon a skeleton—the murdered body of the last owner’s w...
4½ Stars"Blown Away" is the first book in the new Kite Mystery series. It’s about Emmy Adler, a twenty something kite shop owner, who stumbles upon a dead body on her morning walk. The dead body turns out to be her best friend’s ex-boyfriend and sh...
4 Stars"A Measure of Murder" is the second book in the Sally Solari Mystery series. Sally, now juggling her time between two restaurants, decides to join her ex-boyfriend’s choir. While at rehearsal, a mean tenor drops dead and his girlfriend thin...
4½ Stars"Pop Goes the Murder" is a cozy mystery about Rebecca Anderson, a gourmet popcorn entrepreneur, whose ex-husband, Antoine, asks her to be on his popular cooking show. Things take a dark turn when Antoine’s assistant is found murdered and th...
4 StarsJennifer L. Armentrout delivers a spectacular suspense story with this fabulous contemporary. Sasha is such a deep and well developed heroine. I thoroughly enjoyed how we found out about her past little by little there wasn't just a huge in...
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