Category: 5 paws

Review – Carousels and Characters by Elizabeth Pantley

  Synopsis This book club is whooshed right into the pages of a cozy mystery. The quirky group of brave members must solve the mystery and reach The End to get out of the book. In each book of the series, they travel to a different world and meet paranormal characters. It could be shifters, […]

Review & Giveaway – The Mystery in the Margins by L.L. Gray

    The Mystery in the Margins: A Cozy Mystery (Havenwood Paranormal Cozy Mysteries) Paranormal Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Connecticut Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heroic Rose Publishing (August 25, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 258 pages Synopsis A quaint bookshop, a sprinkle of magic, and a dash of mystery. Harper Sullivan yearns […]

Review – Needy Little Things by Channelle by Desamours

    Synopsis In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend’s disappearance before she finds herself in the same danger. Sariyah Lee Bryant can hear what people need—tangible things, like a pencil, a hair tie, a phone charger—an ability only her family and her best friend, Malcolm, […]

New Release Review – Dead Money by Jacob Kerr

  Synopsis In her job solving problems for Silicon Valley’s most ruthless venture capitalist, Mackenzie Clyde’s used to playing for high stakes. Even if none of the jaw-dropping sums in play ever seem to make it into her hands. But her new assignment is something else entirely. The lightning-rod CEO of tech’s hottest startup has […]

Review & Giveaway – The Doll from Dunedin by ML Condike

  THE DOLL FROM DUNEDIN By ML Condike   Historical Mystery / Genealogy Mystery Publisher: Harbor Lane Books Pages: 428 Publication Date: October 22, 2024   Synopsis The Doll from Dunedin is the sequel to the 2024 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal winner in Fiction – Mystery – General, The Desk from Hoboken. Still reeling from […]

Review – The Last Toll Collector by S.S. Turner

  Synopsis What would you do if AI outcompeted you so completely that it negated your role in society? Welcome to Valerie Tobruk’s life. Her job as a toll collector on the Golden Gate Bridge was made redundant when toll collection was automated in 2013. Since then, she’s struggled to find a job which AI […]

Review – Miranda Fights by Gail Ward Olmsted

  Synopsis Miranda Quinn is back in the courtroom working as a legal aid attorney when she’s asked to represent Lennon, the daughter of a high school friend currently serving time in prison. Still struggling with guilt from the role she played in her friend’s downfall, Miranda agrees to help. The former assistant DA has […]

Review – Late Checkout by Alan Orloff

  Synopsis Motel proprietor Mess Hopkins is more interested in helping others than turning a profit, so he opens the doors of the Fairfax Manor Inn to those seeking refuge from a bad situation. But when his cousin Finn shows up in trouble, his world is rocked, because Mess had thought Finn was dead, having […]

Review – The Patriots by John A. Heldt

  Synopsis From the author of the critically acclaimed Second Chance series comes the first book in the Stone Shed saga. When Noah Maclean, 22, races home from Europe, he finds a dying grandfather, a hidden letter, and a family secret that dates to the 1740s. He learns he is the keeper of a stone […]

Review – Death by Jellybeans by Susie Black

  Synopsis  “Brings a whole new meaning to the rabbit died.” Mermaid Swimwear President Holly Schlivnik discovers the Bainbridge Department Store Easter Bunny slumped over dead, and obnoxious swimwear buyer Sue Ellen Magee is arrested for the crime. Despite her differences with the nasty buyer, Holly is convinced the Queen of Mean didn’t do it. […]