The troubling suicide of her half-brother has reporter Kate Beaumont traveling to the small town of Laurel Ridge, Pennsylvania nearly one year after the loss of her sibling, once she’s between jobs and can get away from her big city life. But what she thinks will be a short stay to dig up some […]
I love a good mystery and books full of suspense and thrills really glue me to the pages. K. A. Tucker’s He Will Be My Ruin didn’t met my expectations and then some in every way–from not being able to nail down who the murderer was to a great cast of supporting characters to […]
Some books are chock full of my sense of humor—sarcastic wit, jokes bagging on pop culture from the 80s and 90s, and a glass-half-empty protagonist who thinks that things are never going to get better, so why should he try? We’re All Damaged has all of these things and more, and it really hit […]
In this second installment of the Girls of Mischief Bay series, three characters come to the forefront to tell their stories in alternating viewpoints. Nicole was a main character in book #1, The Girls of Mischief Bay, Hayley was a secondary character in book #1, and Abby is a new character that’s connected to these […]
I really love books where you get different characters’ points of views, slowly gleaning the truth out of them all one by one–and this book does just that. In Rochelle B. Weinstein’s WHERE WE FALL, a marriage that is hanging by a thread due to a wife’s long term bouts of depression and the husband’s […]
Deception Island is a book that had me glued to the pages as I followed the thrilling story of a kidnapper and his victim. All isn’t what it seems from the get go with these characters, and the tension is high from the start. This one was a page turner that I read in […]
Out Rider is the eleventh installment in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming series featuring former military members in a western setting. This is the second book in this series that I’ve read, and I was instantly at home with these characters. The book was written as a standalone,just featuring a new set of main characters with some […]
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 […]
Serenity’s Plain Secrets is an exciting, well written, and unpredictable mystery series featuring a female Sheriff whose jurisdiction covers the local Amish population. Serenity comes to find that things are much more exciting and hard to investigate when crimes happen within Amish communities, but she excels at her job–and that’s why she’s in demand–which is both […]
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 […]
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 […]
To continue on with my getting into the Christmas spirit, I picked up one of my newer favorite contemporary romance authors’ latest book: Marry Me at Christmas. Susan Mallery does romantic fiction so well and delivers books full of humor, smart women and awesome men, and such great romance. All of this is set against the […]
Hey everyone!! Welcome to todays Edition of the fantastic Naughty of Nice Tour from Harlequin featuring 6 amazing holiday tiles form 6 fantastic and amazing authors! And.. I have the pleasure to host Gena Showlater here today with her newest instalment of “The original Heartbreakers” series, which I loooove so much! and don’t miss the […]