Category: Review

Review & Excerpt – A Dream in the Wilderness by Jean Hackensmith

    Synopsis Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley accepts the position of nanny to Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after the farmer’s wife, parents, and infant son die in the Cholera epidemic of 1834. The twist? The job is in Superior, Wisconsin […]

Review – Beneath the Broken Oak by Lori Altebaumer

  BENEATH THE BROKEN OAK By Lori Altebaumer   Mystery / Romance Publisher: One Thousand Hills Publishing Pages: 400 Publication Date: February 22, 2025   Synopsis Trees don’t heal. They seal. But Forester Jodee Trevaine isn’t a tree. The wounds of abandonment she’s spent years denying will be ripped open the night she witnesses a […]

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 – The Snowbirds by Christina Clancy

    Synopsis The Last Thing He Told Me meets Fleishman Is in Trouble in this page-turning story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads. Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their “separate but together” partnership is running […]

Review & New Release – The Meadowbrook Murders by Jessica Goodman

  Synopsis A page-turning murder mystery set at a prestigious New England boarding school and the dark secrets a killer desperately wants hidden. Secrets don’t die when you do. It’s the first week of senior year at Middlebrook Academy. For Amy and her best friend Sarah, that means late-night parties at the boathouse, bike rides through […]

Review & New Release – All The Terrible Things by Lara Martin

  Synopsis In this heart-stopping story of love, hate, and redemption, four strangers are drawn together in the dangerous world of animal rights activism. Perfect for fans of Catherine Cowles, All the Terrible Things is a race-against-the-clock romantic thriller that will keep you hooked until the final page. Pampered socialite Amy Hutchinson has spent years […]

Review – Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson

  Synopsis She gets people to confess their crimes for a living. He knows she’s hiding a terrible secret. It’s time for the truth to come out… Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they’ve committed to her audience. She can’t guarantee the police won’t come after […]

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, […]

Review & Giveaway – Little Boy Blue by Margaret Fenton

    Synopsis Child welfare social worker Claire Conover is back in Little Boy Blue. She and Grant Summerville have broken up, and she is getting used to being a single foster mother. When Grant is accused of child abuse by a former employee, Regina Maynard, Claire vows to prove his innocence. Then Regina is […]