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  • Some Like It Hot by Susan Andersen

    Easily digested, warm and engrossing, Some Like It Hot by Susan Andersen is one of the best of this year’s light summer reads. Second in the Razor Bay series, it follows the romance between hunkalicious deputy sheriff Max Bradshaw and itinerant philanthropist Harper Summerville. Harper grew up travelling with her father, inspecting charities in order…

  • In Pieces

    A gay San Francisco cop in a Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer sweater and an art student who pays his tuition from his earnings as a prostitute meet at a Christmas party and fall in lust. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? Fortunately, the two protagonists are strong enough characters that Land’s…

  • Rules of Murder

    Every once in a while an author will flip a switch and turn on a specific part of my imagination. The language and scene settings in this novel flipped me to movies like The Thin Man and Sunset Boulevard. I “pictured” the novel in black and white and could see the characters in their glittering…

  • Infamous by Suzanne Brockmann

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor and Angela Dawe The cover of this book says it all for me but here are the details… I had listened to male/female POV narrations before hearing Patrick Lawlor and Angela Dawe with Suzanne Brockmann’s Infamous but this is the first duo that left a lasting impression. It’s been nearly three…

  • Castaway Cove by JoAnn Ross

    Castaway Cove was the first book I’ve read by JoAnn Ross, and although it was a nice enough read, I don’t know how soon I’ll get around to a second. The story was fine, the characters were sweet, but there wasn’t anything exceptional about it. I could just as easily have spent my day reading…

  • On Distant Shores

    I’ve recently finished a glom of Foyle’s War, an excellent BBC mystery series set during WWII which looks at life on the English home front. This novel also deals with various portions of Europe during the war and reminds us that not everything centered on hometown parades with confetti and streamers. It cost a lot…

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