Puzzles and Premieres: Magical Mystery Book Club Paranormal Cozy Mystery 10th in Series Setting – In a ski town at a film festival Better Beginnings, Inc. (July 15, 2025) Number of Pages: 290 Synopsis When this club selects a book, magic happens! This book club does more than read their books – they […]
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Review – A Poetic Puzzle by Joanne McLaughlin
Synopsis Internationally acclaimed poet Mary Irene Jones has vanished—calls and texts unacknowledged, bank accounts emptied, car abandoned. But before she disappeared, she mailed never-published manuscripts to a lesser-known namesake poet, M. Irene “Mimi” Jones. Are the manuscripts clues only Mimi can decipher? And what about the handsome Philadelphia cop assigned to the case? He […]
Review – Death of an Ex by Delia C. Pitts
Synopsis Delia Pitts expertly writes about family, race, class, and grief in her mysteries. Vandy Myrick captured readers’ and critics’ hearts in Trouble in Queenstown. She returns in Death of an Ex, where Vandy tries to piece together what brought her ex-husband’s life to an end. Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and […]
Review – No Lie Lasts Forever by Mark Stevens
Synopsis Zodiac with a terrifying twist, in a taut thriller from author Mark Stevens about a reformed serial killer and the disgraced journalist he coaxes into finding the imposter trading on his name. When a reporter dies in a shockingly familiar way, the media rushes to announce the return of the PDQ Killer. The city […]
Review – The Case of the Croaked Coach by Susie Black
Synopsis There wasn’t an honest bone in Buzz Bixby’s body. The Encino High School’s head football coach was an equal-opportunity scoundrel. Bixby cheated and lied his way to the top and screwed anyone and everyone in his wake. So, the question wasn’t who wanted the bastard dead. The question was, who didn’t? Student reporter […]
New Release & Review – The Blue Horse by Bruce Borgos
Synopsis A controversial wild horse round-up in the high desert of Nevada results in two murders and too many suspects for Sheriff Porter Beck to deal with. A helicopter driving a controversial round-up of wild horses suddenly crashes, and the pilot is found to have been shot. Then the person coordinating the round-up for […]
Review – Shadow of the Queen by Scott Finley
Synopsis October, 1929. Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning the ship’s nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire, apparently leaping overboard a day before the […]
Review & Giveaway – Higher Love by Joanne Kukanza Easley
Higher Love By Joanne Kukanza Easley Women’s Literary Fiction Publisher: Red Boots Press Pages: 380 Publication Date: May 12, 2025 Synopsis Higher Love – the new release from Joanne Kukanza Easley, the multi-award-winning author of Sweet Jane, Just One Look, and I’ll Be Seeing You. In 1986 Austin, Texas, sixteen-year-old Stephanie […]
Review – The Final Episode by Lori Ryan
Synopsis When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself. Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain the […]
Review – The Ruins in Which We Bleed by Steve N. Lee
Synopsis A story of courage and a fight for survival like none you have ever read. Guaranteed! Inspired by a previously untold true story. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, 13-year-old Helena is imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto, a squalid hellhole rife with disease and starvation. Yet, although the Nazis have destroyed her home, […]