Missouri

  • Return Engagement

    Return Engagement is a terrific light contemporary romance, a nice big read for anyone who’s been missing this type of book. There’s no suspense plot and no misery and angst, just 400 plus pages packed with story and teeming with characters. There’s so much happening that not even a few standard issue plot elements, namely…

  • In Hot Pursuit

    Cozy British villages in mysteries and rural American towns in romance both have become staples of their respective genres. Each genre has conventions attached to the locales. In all those cozy British burgs the people lead seemingly normal lives, while beneath the surface they’re seething with murderous secrets. In the romance genre, the conventions of…

  • Bad Karma by Theresa Weir

    Bad Karma is about a psychic. Wait, don’t run away yet. It’s by Theresa Weir, and it avoids the usual clichés. How often do you read a paranormal novel where the psychic pretends to be a fraud? Or a romance novel where the heroine has an eating disorder? The small town of Egypt, Missouri has…

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