I’ve read several of the crime stories featuring Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady. The twenty-first in the series, THE GIRL FROM DEVIL’S LAKE, shows her at the top of her game. In her third term as elected sheriff at Bisbee, with the full support...
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Gabriela, a recovery agent, comes home from a mission to discover her ex-husband and his cousin in her apartment. She’s not thrilled to see them. Harley, the cousin, is in trouble. He’s been gifted the role of president at a bank – and forced to insure high-profi...
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TURNS OF FATE is the latest by Anne Bishop, starting a new series called Isle of Wyrd.  I absolutely ADORE Bishop's The Others series, a fantastical paranormal series with shifters, vampires, and the very dangerous Elementals alongside the hum...
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What would Christmas be without a murder to solve? In the series following Meg Langslow, the murders occur with great regularity. So far, her immediate family of drama teacher husband Michael and twin lads Josh and Jamie are safe. But the extended famil...
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PLUTO is the final stop on the Grand Tour taken by Ben Bova of our Solar System. This story also rounds off the Outer Planets trilogy. As Ben Bova passed away in 2020, the publishers enlisted Les Johnson, another award-winning SF author, to finish the story. Whil...
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Jane Austen has so many secondary characters that get overlooked within the main story. In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together to celebrate her minor characters by giving them their own happily ever afters.
 
There are stories f...
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Lulu Mayfield’s gelatin salads are always the talk of any neighborhood soiree.  She is a diligent housekeeper with enviable cooking chops.  To top it off, she has a doting husband and sweet little boy. Lulu’s got a great community of friends and lives in an idylli...
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Christina Henry did an excellent job with THE PLACE WHERE THEY BURIED YOUR HEART. Reading this paranormal thriller brought me back to my days of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps. The only difference is that this story is for adults. Make sure you are reading it du...
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A serial killer is stalking victims on a dating app and at local businesses. He’s handsome, funny, magnetic, and murderous. For Meghan, Skye, and Brecia, their fates have already been decided, but when the three unite in the afterworld, they realize they just migh...
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Welcome to Colorado in the snow, the spectacular and dangerous setting of the tenth Timber Creek K-9 Mystery. Police officer Mattie Walker and her husband Cole Walker are hiking in a canyon with Cole’s daughters and police dog Robo. Suddenly they hear a DYING CRY....
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Agatha realizes the book has magical powers, powers she knows Zoe has promised her mother never to use. Agatha puts Zoe in touch with librarians who look after magical items.
 
Zoe learns that she’s the last in a line of very powerful witches. Despite th...
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When a young mother is murdered and her baby disappears, Freeport, Michigan, medical examiner Dr. Emily Hartford fears the worst. But the vicious killer isn’t finished yet. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, Colton Chauncey races to sell the stolen child and v...
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Anne Elliot doesn’t know what to do with her life anymore. Her father’s divorce means she’s losing both her home and her job. She has some savings, but not much. When a girl in her apartment building offers to rent her a room, Anne jumps at the chance. At least on...
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In this fairytale, which is like Beauty and the Beast, only with a war, Celia is the sister of young knight Argent, and their father is Veris the Fox. The family has survived the later years of THE SUMMER WAR, and a fragile peace has fallen. Roric, the less handso...
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My introduction to Robyn Carr was with her Virgin River series, and I followed her to Thunder Bay and a standalone. Now I’m catching up to her in a new series set in Grace Valley, California. While I don’t claim to have read every bo...
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The tension-filled fifth Deep Dish Mystery returns to Geneva Bay, Wisconsin, at the bitter time of February. AT DEATH’S DOUGH relates to pizza dough and, of course, to money being referred to as dough. We start in the lawless 1920s with a car carrying a...
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Librarian Zoe Ziakas knows her mother and grandmother were witches because her mother made her promise to stay away from magic. Then, after learning of her mother’s death, Zoe receives the family grimoire but cannot open the book. She asks Agatha, the woman who to...
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The series Jared Plummer vs. the Ancient World is the slightly mad adventures of a time-traveling film team. Who would choose to go to an ancient city on the brink of violent destruction? Documentary maker Jared Plummer heads off to shoot an episode on PR...
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MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE by Martin Edwards invites readers to channel their inner detective, piecing together clues hidden throughout the text and buried within supplementary materials. At the heart of the story is a killer targeting guests at a sec...
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In less than two months, Ruby is moving to England to fulfil the dream she and her mother once shared of opening a country inn. Now that it’s just Ruby, she’s setting off to make their dreams come true. While she doesn’t have hospitality experience, she does work ...
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Patricia Briggs is in my top five favorite authors, so I greedily gobbled this collection of short stories up. Set in the “Mercy-verse,” BLIND DATE WITH A WEREWOLF is most closely tied to the Mercy Thompson series. (This is a paranormal fantasy series wit...
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Dr. Emilia McRoy, who moved her practice to an island off Scotland, has been finding her feet as the sole American present. She’s enjoying learning all the local customs and folk tales. This time Emilia encounters DEATH ON A SCOTTISH TRAIN.

Th...
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Kate Drake is one of the seven Drake sisters who share amazing powers that some would call witchcraft. She calls it her normal life. She is a best-selling author and while visiting home, she decides it is time to settle down a bit and plans to open a bookstore. Sh...
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