The Darcy Walker series is one of my favorite sets of books, and I burned through the three available books one right after the other over Christmas 2014, eager to delve deeper into the fun and often dangerous world of young ADHD sleuth Darcy and her group of boys that do her dirty work. I reviewed […]
Historical fiction can sometimes be a bit dry, but The Sisters of Versailles is an engaging, almost soap opera-like account of five sisters in eighteenth century France–four of whom become mistresses of King Louis XV. Based on the real-life story of the Nesle sisters and written in a narrative style as if the sisters are […]
The Girl in the Red Coat was a book that had me utterly engrossed within a few pages, with the recently single mother Beth struggling to raise eight-year-old Carmel on her own after her husband has left her for another woman. While Beth seems to be holding onto her daughter too tightly, she still manages […]
Beneath Still Waters was a book where I felt immediately right at home–with the ease of the simpler times of small town life in the mid-twentieth century, with the sights and sounds of a suffocatingly hot summer. I went into this book expecting a historical novel steeped in mystery, and I definitely got that…but I […]
Bestselling author Lori Foster Gives Snapshot of MMA-themed Ultimate Series To celebrate the last book in Lori Foster’s addicting MMA-themed Ultimate Series, we’re going back to the beginning and giving you an overview of the series. Relive you favorite moments, or be introduced to a series you will want to devour. Winter is after-all the […]
The psychological thriller Beside Myself takes a good look at many things like nature vs. nurture, mental illness and how it affects families, the repercussions of suicide, and sibling rivalry. Twins Helen and Ellie have a unique but tenuous relationship when they’re young, mainly based on the strain after their artist father’s suicide and […]
I’m so happy to bring you a guest post today from one of the four authors of an eight-part, high octane FBI thriller series, Tough Justice. Tyler Anne Snell is here to give us her insights into how writing this serial is different than her other books for Harlequin. Romantic suspense author Tyler Anne […]
Night Hawk is the tenth installment in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming series featuring former military members in a western setting. Although this is the first book that I’ve read in this series and by this author, I didn’t have a problem jumping right in since the books are written as stand alones–featuring a new […]
From reading the back cover copy for The Lady’s Command, I didn’t really know what to expect of this historical romance. Would it be set on the high seas? Would there be pirates? Would it be mostly set in English society with a husband who feels out of place? I was pleasantly surprised when […]
Since this is the Christmas season, I’m in the mood to read a few books where Christmas figures into the plot or the story takes place around that time period. The Christmas Bridge by husband and wife writing team Elyse Douglas fits that bill nicely, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I connected with […]
Happy Friday, and I’m so excited to bring you the Kismet blog tour stop for Jonathan Watkins’ legal thriller Motor City Shakedown. Mysteries and thrillers are my go-to genre and I love the variety that there is to read inside therein. I asked Jonathan to share some of his favorite books that he could recommend […]
Who hasn’t seen the news story about the discovery in 2010 of a Paris apartment that was locked away, untouched for seventy years? I was intrigued by the pictures that were released, and author Ella Carey was as well, enough so that this idea sparked a novel, Paris Time Capsule. New Yorker Cat Jordan receives […]
This has been my “Summer of Horror,” and to mark the end of the season and a lot of wonderfully dark and twisted books, Kevin P. Keating’s The Captive Condition was my end cap. I’d like to say that this novel lived up to my expectations, but maybe a chocked-full summer of great horror […]