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Review – Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

  Synopsis Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So, when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends. Instead, a girl […]

Spotlight & #Giveaway – Sugar on the Bones by Joe Lansdale

  SUGAR ON THE BONES By Joe R. Lansdale   Private Investigator Mystery / Noir Crime / Hard-Boiled Mystery / Lawyers and Criminals Humor Publisher: Mulholland Books Pages: 317 Publication Date: July 16, 2024   Synopsis In this holy mess of a case for the “perpetual bad boy” (New York Times) sleuths in the beloved […]

Review – A Collection of Lies by Connie Berry

  Synopsis As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – A Lethal Lake Effect by Lorraine Bartlett

    A Lethal Lake Effect (A Victoria Square Mystery) Cozy Mystery 9th in Series Setting – Victoria Square, McKinlay Mill, NY Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polaris Press (June 6, 2024) Number of Pages: 306 Synopsis Things go awry for Katie Bonner when her former mother-in-law, Margo, throws a housewarming party at her lakeside rental […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Sorry, Knot Sorry by Lois Winston

    Sorry, Knot Sorry (An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery) Cozy Mystery 13th in Series Setting – New Jersey and New York City Independently Published (June 4, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages Synopsis Magazine crafts editor Anastasia Pollack may finally be able to pay off the remaining debt she found herself saddled […]

Review & #Giveaway – This Time Around by Kimberly Packard

  THIS TIME AROUND by Kimberly Packard   Time Travel Romance / Contemporary Women’s Fiction / Romantic Comedy Publisher: Abalos Publishing Date of Publication: June 11, 2024 Number of Pages: 286 pages   Scroll down for Giveaway!   Synopsis Most of us would jump at a chance for a do-over of our teenage years…but what […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Clover Covered Corpse by Jackie Layton

    Clover Covered Corpse: A Texas Flower Farmer Cozy Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Texas Publisher: ‎ Level Best Books (May 28, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 308 pages Synopsis Emma Justice never imagines working at the farmers market on a normal Saturday morning will lead to her second murder […]

Review – Flat Water by Jeremy Broyles

  Synopsis On a road trip to Flat Water, the home he fled years before, Monty Marinnis must confront the complex and painful loss that drove him away and now demands his return: family. Called back to California for his sister’s wedding, Monty’s journey from the Midwest to the California Coast is also a journey […]

New Release & Excerpt – Stone of Fear by Margaret Izard

  Synopsis Marie Murray, a spunky expert on spiritual buildings, jumps at the opportunity to renovate the chapel mosaic floor at Dunstaffnage Castle, where she falls hard for the dashing John MacArthur. From their first kiss, sparks fly. Believing her religious renovation creates magic, a fanatical priest kidnaps Marie. Obsessed with obtaining a powerful magic […]

Review – Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter

  Synopsis A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter week” at a remote summer camp—their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely. After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up—hobbies, friends, a dream job—to be something a super dad. Since […]