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, […]
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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. […]
Spotlight – Elk Love by Lynne Spriggs O’Connor
Synopsis Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the East Coast in a quest to reset her […]
Interview & #Giveaway – Deus TEX Machina by Rob Witherspoon
DEUS TEX MACHINA: The Second Calamity of QED Morningwood by Rob Witherspoon Science Fiction / Humor / Satire Pages: 163 Publication Date: June 13, 2022 Synopsis QED “Kid” Morningwood is back with big plans to create a death tourism industry. Working with his old Metaphysics professor from Texas Alchemical and Metaphysical University, […]
Guest Post & #Giveaway – Cooking to Death by Marcy Blesy
Cooking to Death: Stirring the Pot (The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series) Paranormal Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Michigan Publisher : Independently Published (June 14, 2024) Paperback : 302 pages Synopsis A Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series: Twenty-four-year old Vivien Belcher–Ms. B, for obvious reasons–teaches a full […]
New Release & Review – The Gorundworld Heroes by Adrian So
Synopsis When Groundworld is on the brink of extinction, it takes one mole with courage to save the day. When Benjamin, a junior mole digger, witnesses a human invasion of his homeland, he must find his long-lost courage and unite two culturally distinct realms to fight the intruders and save his kind from […]
Review – Duties and Dreams by John A. Heldt
Synopsis From the author of THE FOUNTAIN and ANNIE’S APPLE comes a story that spans decades of conflict and change. As World War I rages in Europe, the Carpenters and the Lees make a home in Southern California. Bill and Cassie add to their family. Andy and Annie start one of their own. Paul, […]