Category: 4 paws

Review – In Royal Ruins by Serena Clarke

    Synopsis   Appalled by his daughter’s vain and impertinent attitude, the king forces her to marry a peasant, hoping to teach her a lesson. Feeling devastated by this decree, Alora loses everything she knows and is thrust into a world she is not prepared for. The skills she learned to help her rule […]

Review – Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

    Synopsis Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder–and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One Roof. On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands […]

Review & #Giveaway – The Knotted Ring by Myra Hargrave McIlvain

          The Knotted Ring   By   Myra Hargrave McIlvain     Historical Fiction / Family Saga / Historical Romance Publisher: Next Chapter Page Count: 412 Publication Date: December 7, 2023   Scroll down for Giveaway!           Susannah Mobley, expecting a baby by her lover, a slave […]

Review & Excerpt – What Happens in Montana by Kim McCollum

    Synopsis   A ghost’s antics, a harrowing moose chase, a hypnosis session, and smuggled booze lead to spilled secrets and betrayal, but do they also lead to murder? At a hot springs retreat in Montana, whiskey-swigging Maude, the nearly eighty-year-old chef, longs for the glory days when the retreat hosted martini-sipping celebrities instead […]

Recipe & #Giveaway – Ill-Fated Fortune by Jennifer J. Chow

            Ill-Fated Fortune: A Magical Fortune Cookie Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – California Minotaur Books (February 20, 2024) Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages   Synopsis   Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom’s apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, […]

Review & #Giveaway – A Song That Never Ends by Mark A. Gibson

        Synopsis   Home. For over three hundred years, that’s what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Home. That’s the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the […]

Review – Meant for Me by Tay Marley

    Synopsis   Sometimes you have to run away to find yourself. Reeling from the sudden loss of her older sister―her only family―Addie May flees Los Angeles without a plan or a destination, and ends up in Georgetown, Texas. Lost and alone, she’s taken in by some kind local ranchers, and there she meets […]

Review & Excerpt – Man-Killer by Lawrence Kelter

    Synopsis   Gina Marie Cototi is a feisty Sicilian sparkplug, a Brooklyn-based PI with a fondness for family, friends, and one roguishly handsome Casanova named Rocco Benelli. Hey, nobody’s perfect. This headstrong sleuth drives a split-window ’63 Corvette coupe and never, I mean never, misses Sunday dinner with Ma, Dad, and her sister […]

Review & Excerpt – Beyond Conviction by C.J. Watson

    Synopsis   Alien swarms. Ceaseless wars. Hive worlds, pirates and conflict without end. For hundreds of years, the Conviction has kept these threats at bay. So why now are its forces suddenly disappearing? Adroa is a bleak, backwater world on the edge of known civilisation, with every day a struggle to survive for […]