Julie Moffet is a published author and this is her first venture into mystery/suspense and she has the background for this type of novel. She has a degree in political science and speaks several foreign languages mentioned in this book, so what she writes about she knows and understands. Lexi Carmichael works for the NSA […]
Liar, Liar is the first novel for a trio of sisters – Julianne, Kristen and Kari Larsen. Cat DeLuca, along with her beagle Inga, owns and runs the Pants on Fire Detective Agency…and yes, the name is all that it implies. She won’t find a long lost relative but she is the one to call […]
A few months ago I gave away a copy of Hush by Kate White. Kate was able to answer some interview questions and here they are! SBR: What made you break from your Bailey Weggins series and venture into unknown characters? KW: I love Bailey, but I thought it would be nice to take a […]
John Howard Reid is a prize winning author and writing contests judge. He has also worked as a publisher, editor, critic and bookseller. As a fiction writer, Reid first achieved fame in England and Australia for a series of detective novels, all featuring a Miami police sergeant named Merryll Manning, who made his debut in […]
P.S. Barta has been telling engaging stories since childhood, when she often entertained friends and younger relatives with tales of mystery and intrigue. She then enhanced her skills through participation in live theatre, where she was nominated for a local acting award. Her professional life started with positions in visual arts, but soon included writing […]
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 […]
Cleo Coyle is the pen name for Alice Alfonsi, who writes with her husband, Marc Cerasini.  They write a cozy series called the Coffeehouse mysteries. While I’m not a coffee addict like some, the descriptions of the various drinks, types of coffee and methods makes me want to take up drinking coffee! But a tea […]
U for Undertow is the 21st book in the alphabet series by Sue Grafton. Kinsey Millhone is a PI in Santa Teresa CA, a small bedroom community. The year is 1988 and Kinsey is hired by Michael Sutton who seems to think her remembers seeing two “pirates” burying a little girl that was kidnapped in […]
Delphi Brent is a self assured young woman who has the opportunity to travel to Colorado for the summer before starting a job in Maine. However, her parents are not keen on this idea because of an accident nine years previously that left Delphi with a large scar on her leg and the death of a son of long time friends, […]
The Wedding Girl is one of the newest books by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophia Kinsella). While I wasn’t keen on all of Sophia’s books, this one was a very fast read and very enjoyable. It starts off 10 years ago with Milly meeting some men while she attended secretarial school. They were involved with each […]