For about a year, ex-reporter Benjamin Justice has been wallowing in the misery that is his life. Once a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter, he was stripped of the award when it was discovered he fabricated the facts and details of the story. His personal life is in a shambles and he’s got a couple of dark…
To say that Daniels’ first in a new mystery series starring an alternative healer was a bit of a disappointment is more then an understatement. Not only are the characters rather silly and the plotting reliant on more then one coincidence, Daniels is an author who I greatly enjoyed under another name. As Jacqueline Girdner,…
Romance authors have been writing short stories and novels with a Christmas theme for years, and lately mainstream authors have jumped on the bandwagon. Mary Higgins Clark has written a slim Christmas book for several years now. Last year, Jan Karon published The Mitford Snowmen and John Grisham released the wildly popular Skipping Christmas. This…
Fans of Suzann Ledbetter’s Valhalla Springs series will no doubt be looking forward to her new offering, West of Bliss. While I found the premise and the characters cute, they were a little too cute at times. The story moves along fairly snappily but I was left feeling unfulfilled. When reviewer Ellen Micheletti reviewed East…
Take some Chick Lit, add a touch of fantasy, throw in a mystery, a bit of satire and a tiny hint of romance. You have Maggie Needs An Alibi, a very funny book that looks like the beginning of a series. It’s one I plan to follow. Maggie Kelly was the author of mid-list romances….
I love cats. Okay, actually, I love animals in general, but I especially love my cat. Having never tried a mystery that was “co-authored by a cat” I decided to give Catch as Cat Can a try. The result was that while the mystery was merely okay, the style of the prose was a little…
It’s no secret that I was deeply disappointed in Janet Evanovich’s last book, Seven Up, and I swore up and down that I was not going to read Hard Eight. No way, no sir, no how. Then I got an email asking me to review it, and well, I’m not an idiot who’d pass up…
The Silent Bride, the latest installment in Leslie Glass’s April Woo mystery series, starts off with plenty of action and never lets up, but has an ending that is not quite up to par with the rest of the book. It is, however, plenty entertaining, with good characterizations and, in Detective Sergeant April Woo, a…
“Whatever happened to Marion Chesney?” My sister Anne, who is The Pickiest Reader In The World, but loves Marion Chesney asked me that question a while back. Also, a few weeks ago, several AAR reviewers mentioned Marion Chesney and how much they enjoyed her wonderful light traditional Regency Romances. Marion Chesney is still writing but…
Reading this book so soon after reading the latest J.D. Robb was a bit of a revelation. I still stand by the B grade I gave to that one and the one I’m giving this one, but have to say that Chasing Darkness is worthy of a comparison that in some respects puts Danielle Girard…
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