Category: mystery

The Sixes – Kate White (giveaway)

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 […]

To Have and To Kill – Mary Jane Clark

Author Mary Jane Clark is probably best known for her suspense series featuring Eliza Blake, co-anchor for KEY news.  She has branched out and created a pseudo cozy series called the Wedding Cake Mysteries.  It might be more of a cozy than I think, but compared to others it didn’t see as “light” as other […]

Margarita Nights – Phyllis Smallman

Phyllis Smallman is the first receipient of the Arthur Ellis Award for Unhanged Arthur from Crime Writers of Canada in June 2007. She was short listed for the Debut Dagger by the Crime Writers of the UK, and nominated for the Malice Domestic Award in the U.S.  Margarita Nights was published in 2008 by McArthur […]

The Health Farm Murders – John Reid (Giveaway)

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 […]

No One Lives Twice – Julie Moffett

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 […]

Trapped on Mystery Island – John Howard Reid (Giveaway)

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 […]

U is for Undertow – Sue Grafton

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 […]

Dial Emmy For Murder: A Soap Opera Mystery

Author: Eileen Davidson 978-0451228253 Published by Obsidian, a division of Penguin Group From the back of the book:Alexis Peterson’s days are flled with scheming, backstabbing, adultery and murder. She is a soap opera star after all. But a new role has her feeling like she’s in the horror business. Tabloids and fans are stunned when […]

The Spy Who Came for Christmas

Author – David MorrellPublisher – Vanguard Press, The Perseus Books GroupNovember 2008 And a child shall lead them5 out of 5 stars David Morrell is an award winning author for his novel First Blood in which the character Rambo was created. He has written other best selling novels such as Extreme Denial, Brotherhood of the […]

Murder in Mykonos – Jeffrey M. Siger

Publisher – Poisoned Pen PressEven beautiful places are not exempt from murder4 out of 5 stars Murder in Mykonos is the first novel for author Jeffrey Siger but he is no stranger to Greece and the island of Mykonos. He was a resident for 25 years and is able to translate that knowledge and his […]