Category: Review

Review – The Glow in Loretta’s Garden by Lois Wickstrom

    Synopsis   When Loretta digs in the dirt to plant her flower garden, she discovers glowing larvae. Learn about the lifecycle of the firefly as she puts the larvae in her empty ant farm box and watches the larvae build tunnels and mud houses. After they hatch, she also learns the secret to […]

Review – Rag Lady by Susie Black

    Synopsis   Recent college graduate Holly Schlivnik dreams of being a writer, but fate has other plans. A family crisis throws her into an improbable situation, and her life will never be the same. Determined to make her own luck when things don’t happen the way she plans, the irrepressible young woman takes […]

Review & New Release – The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy

    Synopsis   The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure—from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955. […]

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 […]

Guest Review & #Giveaway – Fast Times Big City by Shelly Frome

        Synopsis   In a bind, Bud Palmer finds himself at the crossroads when just about everything was on the verge. Like most people, Bud Palmer felt this was just another day. Though the era was drawing to a close, he assumed his life as a sports columnist in the subtropics, in […]

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 – Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley

    Synopsis   This book club is hooked on traveling into books to become the amateur sleuths! In this journey, the club travels to the Kingdom of Everglow. The royal family is rocked to the core when a key staff member falls dead at a community event. In the turmoil that follows, any evidence […]

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, […]