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Excerpt – Second Bloom by Sally Handley

  Synopsis A BLOOMING GOOD MYSTERY! Holly Donnelly, an adjunct English professor, and her younger sister, Ivy Donnelly, a recently widowed, retired nurse, are reluctantly drawn into the investigation of an elderly neighbor’s murder when Juan Alvarez, Holly’s trusted gardener, is accused of the crime. Holly fears police detective Nick Manelli assumes Juan is guilty […]

Review – The Initiates by Ryan Hyatt

  Synopsis A cynical high school graduate must overcome otherworldly odds with a group of fellow misfits if they hope to survive an alien invasion at summer camp. The Outsiders meets Annihilation. Myles Harper’s transition to adulthood couldn’t be more disturbing. After celebrating his high school graduation, his stepfather tells him he needs to get […]

Review – Sour Apples by Paul Jantzen

  Synopsis Imagine, if you will, an eleven-year-old boy with an imagination so powerful that he uses it like others would use a compass. Our hero, Jimmy Hamilton, loses his fort on three separate occasions all in the span of one summer. He must battle both his wits and unwanted squatters. He comes to discover […]

Review & Giveaway – Gunbarrel Highway by Sean Bridges

  GUNBARREL HIGHWAY By Sean Bridges   Suspense / Thriller Wild Rose Press Pages: 264 Publication Date: November 20, 2024   Synopsis Texas trophy wife Claudia Grant, dies after she causes an early morning car accident. In the other vehicle, Daniel Morrison, an attorney struggling with a pending divorce and pill addiction, panics and leaves […]

Review & Excerpt – Goddess Game by Sheila Lee Brown

    Synopsis What if you always knew the safest path—until suddenly, you didn’t? Bethany Hart has spent her life using a secret superpower: the ability to see possible futures and choose the least risky path through any social situation. For decades, she’s avoided conflict, surprises, and heartbreak, crafting a quiet, predictable life. But when […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Trap, Neuter, Die by Sharon Marchisello

      Trap, Neuter, Die: A DeeLo Myer Cat Rescue Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st of Series Setting – Georgia Publisher ‏ : ‎ Level Best Books (October 29, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 286 pages Synopsis DeeLo Myer, newly transplanted from Los Angeles to Pecan Point, Georgia, gets sentenced to forty hours of community […]

Review & Giveaway – Home to Comfort by Kimberly Fish

  HOME TO COMFORT By Kimberly Fish   Women’s Fiction / Contemporary / Cozy Mystery Publisher: Fish Tales Publishing Pages: 382 Publication Date: October 10, 2024   Synopsis Gloria Bachman has pivoted so many times this year she has whiplash. Now, in the middle of winter and drenched in Mexican sunshine at a five-star resort, […]

Review – Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

  Synopsis A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant an inept mother of the bride attempts to navigate the days before and after her daughter’s wedding. Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie’s wedding. To […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Death at the Scottish Broch by Rose Kerr

    Death at the Scottish Broch: A Mia Reid, Archaeologist, Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Isle of Skye, Scotland Publisher ‏ : ‎ Level Best Books (November 5, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages Synopsis Dr. Mia Reid arrives on the Isle of Skye for a summer dig. She learns […]

Review & Excerpt – A Dream in the Wilderness by Jean Hackensmith

    Synopsis Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley accepts the position of nanny to Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after the farmer’s wife, parents, and infant son die in the Cholera epidemic of 1834. The twist? The job is in Superior, Wisconsin […]