Sally Harrington, introduced in Exposé, returns in what is a hard-to-classify novel. It’s a mystery, which echoes some of the humor of Evanovich and Cruisie, by an author who more recently has been doing romantic suspense. Set in the world of national news stations (a la CNN) The Last Lover also brings to mind Sparkle…
Dust to Dust is set in the middle of a Minneapolis winter. If you’ve ever experienced a winter in the upper Midwest, you know how this book feels. People pull in on themselves. Every house is hunkered down to protect itself from the elements. The nights are long, and sunlight is at a premium. The…
Lydia Chin thought her latest case was going to be fairly simple. All fashion designer Genna Jing asked her to do was drop off the ransom so she could retrieve her stolen designs in time for her upcoming showing. At least it looked very simple. But the drop goes terribly awry, shots are fired, and…
It must be hell to be Janet Evanovich – writing the funniest books to ever hit the shelves of a bookstore and having to outdo yourself (and succeeding) each time. Not to mention the millions of fans waiting for each book, snapping it off the shelves and immediately demanding the next one. Well, Janet and…
Everyone loved Boston’s favorite politician, Philip Stewart. Everyone, that is except the person who murdered him. When the councillor is found shot to death in his home, shock waves ripple through Boston. The police are stumped. There are no witnesses, no clues and no one can think of any reason why someone would want to…
On my desert island I will of course have many books from many genres. There is one detective series I simply must have and that is the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Peter is, hands down, one of my favorite fictional characters ever and one whom his author took through a…
East Of Peculiar is a likable book. I enjoyed it whenever I picked it up to read it, but I was able to lay it down easily and never had that go-away-I’m-reading!! spell that comes with the best books. Hannah Garvey is sick and tired of her fast-track corporate job, so one day she quits….
Stealing Time is definitely not a romance novel, although the main character, April Woo, has a very interesting entanglement going on with her former partner, Mike Sanchez. This book is a compelling and gritty police procedural. If you like that type of book, and can handle some violence and a good bit of rough language,…
Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series should enjoy the second in Nancy Bartholomew’s mystery series about Sierra Lavotini. Instead of a smart-mouth bounty hunter, Sierra Lavotini is a smart-mouth and boobacious stripper with a penchant for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Since I’m new to this genre of fiction, I…
Call it women’s intuition, call it fate, call it I get a discount at my bookstore, but I had a feeling I would like the Stephanie Plum mysteries by Janet Evanovich. To begin with, the heroine is frazzled, frizzy-haired and frustrated with her current lot in life. Familiar territory, I thought, plunging right ahead. Trenton,…
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