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Review – Someone To Watch Over Me by Renee Curtis

  Synopsis In a world full of cameras and scripts, the most terrifying moments are happening off-screen. Nighttime soap actress Carmindy Welch is riding high. With a new TV series ready to launch and a glamorous press tour in New York City, her star has never burned brighter. Life is good. But the spotlight turns […]

Review – The Understudy by Morgan Richter

  Synopsis An opera singer uncovers the dark secrets of her cruel and alluring understudy when a murder disrupts her disciplined world. “The first time my understudy tried to kill me was on the day we met. We got off on the wrong foot, Yolanda and I, and while most of that was due to […]

Review – Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

  Synopsis “George Jones is one of the evilest characters you’ll ever find in a book.” –R.G. Belsky, award-winning author of It’s News To Me Javier Jimenez is on a glide path to college, while his brother, Alex, has done a 180 and is heading for trouble. Neither, however, have any idea what’s coming their way when […]

Review – A Poetic Puzzle by Joanne McLaughlin

  Synopsis Internationally acclaimed poet Mary Irene Jones has vanished—calls and texts unacknowledged, bank accounts emptied, car abandoned. But before she disappeared, she mailed never-published manuscripts to a lesser-known namesake poet, M. Irene “Mimi” Jones. Are the manuscripts clues only Mimi can decipher? And what about the handsome Philadelphia cop assigned to the case? He […]

Review – Death of an Ex by Delia C. Pitts

  Synopsis Delia Pitts expertly writes about family, race, class, and grief in her mysteries. Vandy Myrick captured readers’ and critics’ hearts in Trouble in Queenstown. She returns in Death of an Ex, where Vandy tries to piece together what brought her ex-husband’s life to an end. Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and […]

Review – The Case of the Croaked Coach by Susie Black

  Synopsis There wasn’t an honest bone in Buzz Bixby’s body. The Encino High School’s head football coach was an equal-opportunity scoundrel. Bixby cheated and lied his way to the top and screwed anyone and everyone in his wake. So, the question wasn’t who wanted the bastard dead. The question was, who didn’t? Student reporter […]

Review – Shadow of the Queen by Scott Finley

  Synopsis October, 1929. Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning the ship’s nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire, apparently leaping overboard a day before the […]

Review & Giveaway – Higher Love by Joanne Kukanza Easley

  Higher Love By Joanne Kukanza Easley   Women’s Literary Fiction Publisher: Red Boots Press Pages: 380 Publication Date: May 12, 2025     Synopsis Higher Love – the new release from Joanne Kukanza Easley, the multi-award-winning author of Sweet Jane, Just One Look, and I’ll Be Seeing You. In 1986 Austin, Texas, sixteen-year-old Stephanie […]

Review – The Ruins in Which We Bleed by Steve N. Lee

  Synopsis A story of courage and a fight for survival like none you have ever read. Guaranteed! Inspired by a previously untold true story. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, 13-year-old Helena is imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto, a squalid hellhole rife with disease and starvation. Yet, although the Nazis have destroyed her home, […]

Review – Yankeeland by Lacy Fewer

  Synopsis Fiercely independent and passionate, Brigid feels hindered by her family and the strict society of her small Irish town in the early 1900s. Brigid and her cousin Molly, who is more like a sister, dream of a new life in the seemingly unlimited land of opportunity they call Yankeeland—America. Brigid gets her chance […]