Theresa Carle-Sanders is known for crafting cookbooks to honor popular books, including Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander and Stephen King’s novels set in Maine. In the IN DEATH COOKBOOK -To Die For Recipes, she tackles the dishes and beverages from the futuri...
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WILLING PREY started as a novella for new author Allie Oleander that expanded into her full-length debut novel exploring an unusual sexual kink. So, I enjoy reading erotic romance and was intrigued enough by the book summary even though I had never hear...
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Evie Sage is finally getting the position she has earned – as the Villain’s true accomplice.  However, in the meantime, they are taking “it’s complicated” to a whole new level – with their ongoing romantic trials. Trystan’s magic has become unstable, and Evie’s pr...
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Doc Ford returns for the next episode of his career. You may have read the excellent Sanibel Flats, Shark River, Twelve Mile Limit and the rest. By now, it’s book twenty-eight, and Doc gets caught by an obvious trick, and I thought it was time he hung up his boot...
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APPRENTICE TO THE VILLAIN by Hannah Nicole Mahrer picks up where Assistant to the Villain left off – with Evie Sage in a plot to rescue her boss, The Villain. With the help of a mysterious knight in the King’s service, Evie rescues him from the King’s clutches. Read More

Long ago in the kingdom of Esquaveta, which was set between the French and Italian influences, little Princess Tullia was betrothed to Prince Dalrympl of Oxatania. All does not go smoothly in this fantasy fable about THE MAGICIAN OF TIGER CASTLE.
 
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Hazel’s grandmother urges her to get a job at the local library. There she meets Astrid, Jonathon, and Sophie. It’s a memorable first couple of days. First, there’s a fistfight and later one of the men dies. Then a person who attended game night is murdered. The p...
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THE SECRET OF ORANGE BLOSSOM CAKE by Rachel Linden is women's fiction with a little bit of magic, a lot of family healing, second chance romance, and delectable food descriptions all set in gorgeous Northern Italy. Juliana Costa is ready for her life to...
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When two Halloween partiers stumble upon a life-sized doll swinging on a covered porch, they believe it’s part of the decorations, until they get a closer look and discover it’s a young woman they know, and she is most certainly dead in MY DAUGHTER’S SECRET by Nic...
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Emma Smith is told by her strict boss that he’s sending her on vacation as a perk. He’s already booked a ticket and hotel. This seems kind but controlling, and the reader suspects something is awry. MONTANA DELTA RODEO COWBOY seems to pack a lot into the title, bu...
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I was first introduced to Sherry Thomas back in 2011, when historical romance was still very much a thing.  Thomas has been a hit-or-miss romance author for me.  Normally, I am delighted by her writing, but occasionally she writes something that does not work at a...
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The well-known Shetland Islands police detective, DI Jimmy Perez, from Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series, has moved to another of the remote island chains between Scotland and Denmark, which used to have sovereignty. He now lives on one of the Orkney Islands...
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The Lyonese trilogy by Sierra Simone is now complete with BITTER BURN. We see the story of Mark, Isolde and Tristan come to a head, thrash around violently before settling down for their very own walk in the sunset. 

This is an MMF s...
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The latest in The Thursday Murder Club is THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE. The mystery opens with wedding preparations for Joyce's daughter. The case presents itself when the best man approaches Elizabeth to discuss someone trying to kill them. 

Ok, let me start off by saying that normally I don’t read horror.  I’m easily scared, and I can’t tolerate watching horror movies or reading most horror or thriller books.  But you guys, T. Kingfisher is just SO AMAZING that I gobble up every book that she writes...
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Olivia Finn, a single parent, is a memory expert working in a London hospital. She is also the granddaughter of the famous French painter Josephine Benoit. She has always been close to her elderly grandmother.  Even so, she was not prepared for the phone call she ...
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THE KILLING STONES by Ann Cleeves brings the beloved Detective Jimm Perez from the Shetland series into a new series where the disappearance of a close friend makes for a difficult investigation.

Detective Jimmy Perez now lives in Or...
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There’s a funny song that my husband and I always laugh at when it comes on the radio, then of course we sing along because that’s just what we do.

In OUTLAW LAKE, Maisie Yates has an undercurrent theme. It gets bounced around. Especially when it concerns ...
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Cordelia Levine is a powerful witch who enjoys living among humans who have no idea that real witches and supernatural beings exist. In fact, she herself is about to find out that she is destined to be the WITCH OF THE WOLVES, whether she likes it or not. 
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THE KILLING STONES, by Ann Cleeves, features DI Jimmy Perez and DI Willow Reeves from the author's Shetland series. Jimmy, his partner Willow and their young son have moved from the Shetlands to Orkney off the northern coast of Scotland. Archie Stout, P...
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Junie Carmichael stars in a lively, cosy mystery series set in the coastal town of Thistleberry Point.  As a bookstore manager, she has made a lot of friends. The town has invited birdwatchers to visit for a festival celebrating the local bird sanctuary. This spar...
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Lyric just plans to go out for the night, not a brush with death and certainly not a LOVER FORBIDDEN. Qhuinn is thrilled that his daughter is okay, but doesn’t know that her savior that night was Devlin and once he does, he is very much not thrilled. Devlin has h...
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Shabina Foster had thought she had left the past behind her, but she could feel the DEADLY STORMS coming her way. She has her friends who are amazing comforts, her dogs, her security and the café that she loves and lives for after what she had suffered at the hand...
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ILLICIT TEMPTATIONS is a duo of short but amazing reads that can be read separately yet meld into one long book.
 
Make Me Yours is a surprise pregnancy read with Becka Baudin and Aaron Livingston, who hook up following a wedding they both attended. They...
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