Author: StoreyBook Reviews

Review – The Fountain by John A. Heldt @johnheldt #timetravel #historical #5paws

      Synopsis   Portland, Oregon. In May 2022, the Carpenters are a sad lot. Bill, 81, has just buried his beloved wife. Paul, 75, has terminal lung cancer. Annie, 72, is a paraplegic with broken dreams. Childless and directionless, the siblings face an uncertain future in their childhood home. Then Bill, a retired […]

Review – Ghosted by Amanda Quain @QUAINIAC #newrelease #YA #romance #retelling

      Synopsis   Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in Amanda Quain’s Ghosted, a gender-bent contemporary retelling of the Jane Austen classic, Northanger Abbey. Hattie Tilney isn’t a believer. Yes, she’s a senior at America’s most (allegedly) haunted high school, Northanger Abbey. But ever since her paranormal-loving dad passed away, she’s hung up her Ghostbusters suit, put […]

Recipe – A Sour Note by Jill Piscitello #cozy #mystery #musicboxmystery

          A Sour Note (A Music Box Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Hampton Beach, NH Wild Rose Press (June 26, 2023) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 250 pages   Synopsis   On the heels of a public, broken engagement, Maeve Cleary returns to her childhood home in Hampton Beach, […]

Review & #Giveaway – Murder for Liar by Verlin Darrow #GuestPost #mystery

        Synopsis   Award-winning novelist Verlin Darrow delivers a standout thrill ride in his newest mystery, Murder for Liar, an engaging, enlightening, and entertaining novel of psychological suspense. About Murder for Liar: Private investigator-turned-psychotherapist Tom Dashiel doesn’t know it yet, but he’s hurtling towards discovering where his threshold lies—the point of no […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Paw and Order by Chris Abernathy #cozy #mystery

        Paw and Order: A Detective Whiskers Cat Cozy Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Florida Wright on the Mark, LLC. (May 23, 2023) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 204 pages   Synopsis   What’s better than a K-9 cop? A feline detective. Detective Whiskers is out to prove himself, and […]

Review – The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos #mystery #thriller #suspense #newrelease

    Synopsis   In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos’s The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck… Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join […]

Guest Post – Faraway and Forever by Nancy Joie Wilke #stories #newrelease

    Synopsis   This collection of novelettes takes the reader from the not-too-distant future to a time when travel between worlds is a common occurrence. Each stop along mankind’s journey outward to the stars is accompanied by a deeper look inward—from examining how extraterrestrial beings might use our own biology against us, to whether […]