The Wildest Ride is a book from new-to-me author Marcella Bell, exploring the world of competitive rodeo with a male champion and a woman who just might win it all–including his heart. Here’s an excerpt from chapter one, and stick around until the end for my review of this excellent book. One On their own, the […]
I missed out on A Sweet Mess, book one in this series by author Jayci Lee, but I had no problems jumping into The Dating Dare. There’s almost instant attraction between beer brewer Tara Park and fashion photographer Seth Kim when the encounter each other at Tara’s best friend’s wedding. Tara has sworn off real […]
The Darcy Walker books are in the top three of my all time favorite series, and I anxiously await each new installment. Medusa Effect is the fourth book in the Darcy Walker Investigations series, featuring an older, somewhat wiser Darcy, yet she’s still spunky, resourceful, and uncontrollable when an unsolved mystery or death is dangled right […]
The House Guests is my first book by Emilie Richards, and this domestic thriller surely did not disappoint. Full of family drama and a bit of mystery and danger, this novel follows two families who have been torn apart by tragedy–and how they dealt with those things. When Cassie Costas’ doctor husband dies suddenly in a […]
I’m happy to bring you an excerpt from Deb Kastner’s new novel in the Rocky Mountain Family series. Here’s an excerpt from The Marine’s Mission, and stick around for my review below of this excellent book. The Marine’s Mission – Excerpt Deb Kastner “You should probably know I don’t want to be here.” Those were […]
After reading a couple of dark and heavy thrillers, Talk Bookish To Me was a welcome breath of fresh air. Delving into Kara’s life, fulling engaging me from page one as she struggled to overcome writer’s block and be there for her best friend’s wedding, I could totally sympathize and understand. Light and airy with […]
I haven’t read a collection of short stories in a really long time. When the chance to read the nineteen-story anthology from Mystery Writers of America authors, When a Stranger Comes to Town, popped up, I eagerly downloaded the book from Netgalley. With many authors–both well-known and newer to the mystery genre–each contributing a story […]
Maisey Yates’ books always feel like home to me–like I’m there with friends and family from page one. I always enjoy how the author weaves together several characters’ stories into one cohesive narrative in the end, and Confessions from The Quilting Circle was no exception. In this novel, we get to know a mother, Mary, […]
The Bookstore on the Beach is my first Brenda Novak novel, and I enjoyed the different storylines and dramas that interwove throughout. Featuring three generations of women in one family, this book follows their dramas, the fears, and their high points over a summer on the beach in North Carolina. Grandmother Mary owns a bookstore […]
Adele Parks is back in the United States with her latest release, Just My Luck. I’ve come to know Adele Parks for her use of unreliable narrators, and this one was chock full of them. Lexi and Jake have played the same lottery numbers for years, along with pooling money together for the tickets […]
Allison Brennan isn’t a new-to-me author, having read Love Me To Death and Notorious in the past and enjoyed both of these books. The second installment in the Quinn & Costa Thriller series is Tell No Lies. Focusing on a mobile FBI unit as they investigate the murder of a college student and illegal […]
I’ve enjoyed all of the Heather Graham’s books, and Danger In Numbers is no exception. Set in Florida, two murders that seem to be more ritualistic than random have occurred, and suspicions of a cult being responsible arise very early due to the crime scenes. A younger special agent and her older and wiser […]
The Stills is an excellent foray into 1920s Ohio, focusing on Prohibition, what it’s like to be a woman Sheriff in this Appalachian county, and policing as a woman while trying to take care of your family and deal with your changing grief over the murder of your husband a few years earlier.
