Gregory Ashe is primarily known for writing intricate, gritty mysteries with romantic sub-plots featuring complex but flawed characters who fall in love (usually very slowly!) while solving said mysteries, but of late, he’s been flexing his writing muscles and exploring different genres. Earlier this year, he embarked on The Last Picks series of cosy mysteries…
The Family Man is a promising start to a new romantic suspense series, The Mind Hacker, from new-to-me author AJ Rose featuring a small team of special agents who work for the FBI’s Behavioural Analysis Unit. There are a few stock-in-trade tropes here and the author sometimes gets bogged down with too much description and…
Peacemaker is the first book in the Sharps & Springfield series of historical paranormals set in the US near the end of the nineteenth century. It boasts an interesting central mystery and a well-developed setting, but the characters are barely two-dimensional and the romance is pretty much non-existent. The book is also labelled as ‘steampunk’,…
Auggie Lopez and Theo Stratford made a few cameo appearances in the most recent Hazard and Somerset series (Arrows in the Hand), but it’s been a while since we’ve read about them in their own series, (to be fair, Mr. Ashe has published a dozen other books in the gap!) so I was delighted to…
Queen’s Surrender: To A Higher Calling is the latest release in Pat Simmons’s ten-book series The Jamieson Legacy, and as I had not read the previous books, I knew I was coming in late to this long-running story. Nonetheless, with a little attention I was able to get a handle on the large Jamieson clan…
Relative Justice is book one in Gregory Ashe’s latest series to feature Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset, Hazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand, and even though it’s the start of a new series, it’s most definitely NOT the place to start if you’ve never picked up a H&S book before. Going back to start…
Melissa Scholes Young’s terrific southern coming of age tale is an interesting character portrait that manages to combine an emotional slice-of-life tale with a feminist mien that makes the entire experience a fascination. The Fehler Sisters – teenage Tammy and Kate, college-bound Jules, and recent high school graduate Maggie – are living in Missouri together…
You know how sometimes you stumble across an amazing book that keeps you awake all night in order to read it? A book that takes over your life and has you creating free time out of thin air so that you can immerse yourself in it? That’s what I found in Without Words. Hassie Petty…
I enjoyed several of the books in Hannah Alexander’s Hideaway series, so I was excited to try the first book in this new one. In A Killing Frost, the husband and wife team writing as Hannah Alexander combine their medical knowledge for a fast-paced suspense thrill ride that had me glued to the pages. Though…
Bethany Campbell is a three-time RITA winner – twice for her traditional Harlequin Romances, once for single-title romantic suspense – but it’s her books for Harlequin’s Intrigue line that are some of my favorites. I love all four of them for different reasons: Pros and Cons for its clever plot and the banter between its…
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