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Review – Paths Not Yet Taken by Philip Rennett

  Synopsis Paths Not Yet Taken is a satirical contemporary fiction, encompassing political, military and religious themes alongside human relationships, the importance of pets and the inestimable value of a game of golf. In a Midlands food warehouse, a ministerial visit goes wrong when the prime minister disappears. The consequent nationwide search creates major issues […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – Peach Tea Smash by Laura Childs

    Peach Tea Smash (A Tea Shop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 28th in Series Setting – South Carolina Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (August 6, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages Murder at an Alice in Wonderland–themed event threatens to send Theodosia Browning through the looking glass in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling […]

New Release – The Unraveling by Melanie Hamrick

  Synopsis A ballerina spirals into a world of lust and luxury in this new addictive novel by Melanie Hamrick, author of First Position. Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider in the ballet world. She was raised in rural Louisiana, taught to scrap and hustle for the life she wanted. And ever since […]

Excerpt & Guest Review – Sunny Gale by Jamie Lisa Forbes

  Synopsis When Hannah Brandt, who comes from a hardscrabble background in Ohio and Nebraska, first gets to ride a horse in 1895 at the age of 14, she realizes that there is no going back. . . Her destiny is to be a rodeo star and break new ground as a female bronco rider. […]

Review & #Giveaway – Hallow by M.R. Dimond

  HALLOW: A FRACTURED FAMILY TALE A Black Orchid Enterprises Mystery, Book #5 By M.R. Dimond Mystery / Cozy Mystery / Lawyers & Criminals Humor Publisher: Rock Rose Press Pages: 321 Publication Date: May 30, 2024 Synopsis Family: What you don’t know can kill you. Young Texas attorney JD Thompson enjoys his life in a […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Murder in Vancouver 1886 by Marion Crook

    Murder in Vancouver 1886 Historical Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Vancouver, BC, Canada Publisher ‏ : ‎ Epicenter Press (WA) (May 14, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 234 pages Synopsis Vancouver, 1886, a bustling city with a growing population and tantalizing opportunities. Some of those opportunities are illegal. When Amy MacDonald, […]

Excerpt – Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage

  Synopsis Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up. Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen […]

Review – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip by Gail Ward Olmsted

  Synopsis In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that, at the age of 77, she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone. Over the next six days, […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

  Synopsis From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. Working as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Private Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through […]

Review & Excerpt – Make It Real by Nan Reinhardt

  Synopsis They were only faking it…. A landscape designer for his family’s construction firm, Joe Walker, is nearing completion on one of the most important projects of his career—gardens for spec homes that if they wow, Walker Construction will survive. When a freak accident sidelines him with a broken leg, the firm hires a competitor. […]