P.S. Barta has been telling engaging stories since childhood, when she often entertained friends and younger relatives with tales of mystery and intrigue. She then enhanced her skills through participation in live theatre, where she was nominated for a local acting award. Her professional life started with positions in visual arts, but soon included writing […]
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 […]
Cleo Coyle is the pen name for Alice Alfonsi, who writes with her husband, Marc Cerasini. They write a cozy series called the Coffeehouse mysteries. While I’m not a coffee addict like some, the descriptions of the various drinks, types of coffee and methods makes me want to take up drinking coffee! But a tea […]
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 […]
Delphi Brent is a self assured young woman who has the opportunity to travel to Colorado for the summer before starting a job in Maine. However, her parents are not keen on this idea because of an accident nine years previously that left Delphi with a large scar on her leg and the death of a son of long time friends, […]
The Wedding Girl is one of the newest books by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophia Kinsella). While I wasn’t keen on all of Sophia’s books, this one was a very fast read and very enjoyable. It starts off 10 years ago with Milly meeting some men while she attended secretarial school. They were involved with each […]
Author – Patrick M. Garry Inkwater Press 978-1592993451, April 2008 Life was a simpler then 4 out of 5 stars Patrick Garry has a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Constitutional History from the University of Minnesota. Before joining the faculty at The University of South Dakota School of Law, he was a partner and shareholder […]
Author – Linda Masemore Pirrung iUniverse 978-1440140747, April 2009 Right always wins out over wrong in the end 4 out of 5 stars Linda Masemore Pirrung is the author of several romantic suspense novels including “Cracked Hearts” and “I Will Wait for You”. “Explosion in Paris” is the newest romantic suspense novel from this author. […]
Amanda Hamm was born in Ohio and now lives in North Carolina with her husband and children. Writing has been a life long dream for Amanda and has written several books including Dear Jane Letters and Zero Station: A Science Fiction Novella. “Tightening the Knot” begins with Meredith Donnor sitting in an attorney’s office contemplating […]
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 […]