I must start this review with a ‘warning’. Be prepared for a very emotional ride as our favorite Archangel Raphael and his Guild Hunter angel Elena face her becoming a thousand years old in ARCHANGEL’S ETERNITY. This, the 18th book, is also the finale of the Guild...
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Malvern View Retirement Village features in another novella-length tale of terrible rivalries, lies, death, and English pursuits. A TAIL OF FAIR PLAY AND MURDER is set in a genteel English village. This mystery will be best suited to those who enjoy watching a cri...
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Welcome back to Hobby Island. Land where goodness flows, and the folk that visit are summoned by a golden ticket. This is the second of Lori Wildes series Hobby Island, so some may recognize the core group of inhabitants. It’s not really an island based on fantasy...
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The title is a misnomer, as we don’t see many mountains in this historical women’s fiction. THE MOUNTAINS WE CALL HOME refers to the rugged life for cabin dwellers in Kentucky, caught between a meagre farm and mine work. However, having found out all about this 19...
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Florida Department Law Enforcement Agent Chloe McMurray isn’t used to being asked to do a lot for her job, but this one has her a bit confused. Why was she brought into what seems to be a federal op? She and her counterpart, Federal Agent Wesley Law, are going to ...
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Crime novel at its creepiest best. Mary Kubica has us on a chase against time. Two folks brutally murdered. Seemingly with no clues. No motive. No suspect. Couldn’t be further in the dark if you tried. But here’s the thing: there are some clues. You just have to b...
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Kendal Carter’s days are filled with typical preschool mom things: hanging out at the playground, pretending to be queens with unicorns, and... fleeing internationally when her cover implodes?  Prior to motherhood, Kendal was the top spy at a private agency that b...
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PLATFORM DECAY is the eighth book in Martha Wells's beloved Murderbot Diaries series, plus there is a short story and a novella.  At only 256 pages, PLATFORM DECAY feels like a novella rather than a book, even though the word count is higher than a novella would s...
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We’re following three or maybe four storylines, and some of them are written in clunky typeface to mimic a keyboard and a 1980s computer game. You’ll need patience for HOMEBOUND, which is a dystopian debut.

Or, I guess, you could just follow the actual dysto...
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The plot of THE HEART YOU KEPT promises love and loss in a compelling setting – antiques, France, a rich MMC and so on. I read this story in the last days of winter, and it sure cozied me up for a good reading time with some very fun, smart, confident characters c...
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THISTLEMARSH Hall is the ancestral home of Mouse Dunne, who is a Great War nurse. On her grandfather’s death, she is given leave to return and see to the estate. In this version of Great Britain, the faerie used to be around quite a lot, living parallel lives and ...
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THE TEN TEACUPS, part of the British Library Crime Classics series, was first published in 1937 and revisits the Golden Age Detective era, where an impossible crime occurs, and two men must put together the clues and solve this case.

Scotland Yard Chief Insp...
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Hannah Wagner moves from her eastern city home to Lake Michigan in 1873, when her husband, Dr. John Wagner, is invited to become the town physician. Henry Abernathy, who made his fortune with timber felling and lumber yards, wants his old friend to prosper. THE LU...
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Deckard Payne, Duke of Warburton, barely survived the Napoleonic Wars and came home to recover. He took time to get over his injuries, but was determined to carry out a promise to his late friend to act as guardian to the man’s now-orphaned daughter. CAN’T GET ENO...
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Here’s an exciting YA fantasy for anyone who likes horses or birds of prey. DAUGHTER OF THE WIND follows Zara, the First Daughter of a troubled land. Her people, the Children of the Earth, are being colonised by brutal invaders from a distant continent, and they’v...
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Hotel Heiress and former party girl, Pomona Afton, is
back and trying to cultivate a more sophisticated and
intellectual persona. She has changed since solving her
grandmother’s murder and starting a relationship with
aspiring History teacher Gabe; how...
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I’m a huge Rainbow Rowell fan, so I was excited to read CHERRY BABY. There are romance elements in this book but, for me, this story is focused on Cherry’s journey as she navigates life and personal relationships. Just like in real life, Rainbow Rowell’s contempor...
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Malvern View Retirement Village, an English country residential area, is the scene for this amateur sleuth novella. I’ve enjoyed Lucy Emblem’s mysteries featuring dog trainers and craftspeople in the Malvern Hills, and this story of seniors takes place in a simila...
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Sable Jones stars in a novella about a stud farm and a suspicious death. KILLED FOR A KING’S RANSOM makes reference to a stallion, called King’s Ransom, worth the proverbial sum of money, too.

Sable lives at Silver Run rescue stables, where she helps to ret...
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Jo Segura’s THE LUST CRUSADE sounds like everything I would want in a romance: a heroine secretly in love with her brother’s best friend while he is also in love with her, mixed in with them trekking all over Greece after our hero, Dr. Theo Galanis is discovered t...
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Crime novel at its creepiest best. Mary Kubica has us on a chase against time. Two folk brutally murdered. Seemingly with no clues. No motive. No suspect. Couldn’t be further in the dark if you tried. But here’s the thing: there are some clues. You just have to be...
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This near-future science fiction tale follows Alyssa Wright, who expects to lead a crew on a mission to Mars. Right away, her hopes are dashed, even as the MARS ONE crew is in last week's quarantine. A suspicious accident means Alyssa is replaced by a stranger, An...
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THE BOOK CLUB FOR TROUBLESOME WOMEN by Marie Bostwick is a sort of a historical view of an eye-opening time, mixed with humorous moments that remind you this is a novel. I  love a book that is somehow reminiscent of some part of my own life. The reference to mothe...
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Picture a contract killer.  You’re probably envisioning a scary-looking, muscular man covered in tattoos... not the soft-middled elderly woman in a floral shirt carrying a shopping bag.  And yet, that’s Mrs. Shim.  After falling on hard times financially, Mrs. Shi...
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