Review: A Murder for the Books (A Blue Ridge Library Mystery #1) by Victoria Gilbert Source: ARC courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: December 12, 2017 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Fleeing a disastrous love affair, university librarian Amy Webber moves in with her aunt in a quiet, historic mountain town in Virginia. She quickly busies herself […]
A Grave Issue (A Funeral Parlor Mystery #1) by Lillian Bell Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: February 13, 2018 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: After an on-air gaffe goes viral and jeopardizes her career, journalist Desiree Turner retreats home to Verbena, California for some peace and quiet. She begins working one of the quietest […]
Review: No One Can Know (A Stillwater General Mystery #2) by Lucy Kerr Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Expected publication: February 13, 2018 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: When a pregnant car crash victim arrives at Stillwater General, ER nurse Frankie Stapleton and the team must work swiftly to deliver the baby safely. After hours of grueling effort, they finally save the baby, but the mother dies. The staff is already rattled, but then they learn that the accidental car crash was actually deliberate. Just when they thought the hard work was over, suspects begin rearing their heads one by one and no one is safe. There’s no shortage of motives. The victim was a social worker, and someone may have been seeking revenge. Or perhaps someone was trying to intimidate her up-and-coming politician husband. Then the baby goes missing. Now Frankie must race to uncover the truth in time to catch a killer and save a child in Lucy Kerr’s riveting second Stillwater General Mystery, No One Can Know. No One Can Know is the second entry in Lucy Kerr’s thoroughly entertaining and thrilling Stillwater General Mystery series. The debut, Time of Death, introduced readers to our protagonist: emergency room nurse Frankie Stapleton and her rather complicated return to her small hometown of Stillwater. In my review of Time of Death, I noted that I was captivated early on with Frankie’s voice and the […]
Hope everyone is having a wonderful, safe and lovely holiday season, whatever your celebrations may be! I am rather late in posting this, but I wanted to get in my 2017 reading highlights before the end of the year. In no particular order, here are my book selections for part one, hope you enjoy! Children’s Fiction/Middle Grade: The Goat […]
Review: Nine Lessons (A Josephine Tey Mystery #7) by Nicola Upson Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: October 10, 2017 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John’s-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church’s […]
Review: Unholy City (A Claire Codella Mystery #3) by Carrie Smith Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Expected publication: November 7, 2017 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Despite their rocky history, Detective Claire Codella and Precinct Detective Brian Haggerty come together when senior churchwarden Philip Graves’s bloody body is found lying in the herb garden of […]
Review: Hunting Hour (A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #3) by Margaret Mizushima Source: ARC courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: August 8, 2017 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and his family to work on issues from her past. When she and her K-9 […]
Review: Forgotten City (A Claire Codella Mystery #2) by Carrie Smith Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: December 13, 2016 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: NYPD Detective Claire Codella is chomping at the bit for a new case. Lieutenant McGowan is determined to keep her out of the news, but she’s about to be back […]
Welcome to another edition of Must Read Monday! This feature is where I spotlight older, recent, or upcoming releases I am looking forward to. The lists will include all genres I like to read, everything from picture books to comics, children’s lit to adult fiction! This week: five titles on the docket and they are all mysteries and thrillers! Titles […]
Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Source: ARC courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada via First Reads. Thank you! Publication: May 9, 2017 by Viking Book Description: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, […]
