Once I finish Lost and Fondue I will be starting on Murder by Mocha by Cleo Coyle. Murder by Mocha is the 10th in the Coffee House series. From the dust jacket: Clare Cosi, manager and head barista of the landmark Village Blend coffeehouse, can brew a beverage to die for. But can she stir […]
As a result of my last post with a review of Darcie’s book, she contacted me via email to thank me for the review. Well I’m never one to turn down an opportunity to get a mini interview from an author so here goes! SBR: How did you come up with the idea of this […]
Author Darcie Chan is an attorney and lives in northern Westchester County, New York, with her husband and son. In her spare time, Darcie enjoys reading, writing fiction, gardening, playing piano, and cooking. The Mill River Recluse is her first novel and I believe it is only available as an e-book. Synopsis: Disfigured by the […]
Gloria Schumann is originally from Detroit but attended college in TN where she met her husband, Paul. They moved to Minnesota before ending up in Austin where they still reside. I learned from her site that she was never much of a reader growing up (oh the horror!) but quickly delved into reading whenver she could once she found […]
Heads You Lose is a joint collaboration between Lisa Lutz (known for The Spellman Files series) and David Hayward (He writes poetry and has a editing/writing company). The authors each write a chapter and then hand it off to the other. In between the chapters there are comments about what is written and David’s foray […]
Kate White is best known as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and several bestselling career bibles including Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead…but Gutsy Girls Do and 9 Secrets of Women who Get Everything They Want. Then in 2002 she decided to try her hand at mystery novels and scored a hit with If Looks […]
Kristin Elizabeth Marshall, a graduate of Boston University with a degree in Psychology, has burst into the literary world with her first book. From the back of the book: Set in the historic and familiar context of what is arguably the most iconic American Family, The Eternal Waltz of Jacqueline Kennedy portrays through elegant, lyrical […]
Yes, it has been over 6 months since I wrote a review but life sometimes gets in the way. That said, I have quite a few books and giveaways over the next month! The first is The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton. Rosy was kind enough to send me a book last fall that […]
Author Mary Jane Clark is probably best known for her suspense series featuring Eliza Blake, co-anchor for KEY news. She has branched out and created a pseudo cozy series called the Wedding Cake Mysteries. It might be more of a cozy than I think, but compared to others it didn’t see as “light” as other […]
A few months ago I reviewed the first book in the Sherri Travis series called Margarita Nights by author Phyllis Smallman. The book showed promise for a new series set in Florida so I decided to check out the next two books in the series, Sex in a Sidecar and A Brewski for the Old Man. […]