The Little Detective Agency is aptly named: first, because
the lead detective's name is Bernie Little; second, because
there are only two partners -- Bernie and his faithful dog,
Chet, who also serves as the narrator for their adventures.
When a local police lieutenant asks Bernie and Chet to play Read more...
They meet on Monday nights -- strangers drawn together at a
cooking class, each with his or her own reason for being
there. Carl and Helen are an older couple who seem to have
found happily-ever-after; Claire is a harried young mother
taking a break from her husband and Read more...
Esther Diamond is currently making ends meet by waiting
tables, albeit at a restaurant frequented by Italian
mobsters. Just your typical New York actress -- other than
that little incident during her last acting job, when she
had to help a local sorcerer stop his evil apprentice from
unleashing a deadly Read more...
Israel Armstrong is about to turn 30. As if that wasn't bad
enough, he has recently broken up with his girlfriend; he's
a Londoner stuck in a tiny town in northern Ireland --
living in a converted chicken house -- and he works a dead-
end job as a librarian Read more...
Kenny's Department Store is the pride of Ardagh, a small
town in Ireland. Known for selling one-of-a-kind, handmade
items and offering customers old-fashioned elegance and
personal service, the store has been hard-hit by changes in
the economic climate and competition from cheaper, larger
chains Read more...
Fall, 1985. Four fifth-graders make a gruesome discovery in
the forest near a local park in quiet, pleasant Oak Knoll,
California. A woman has been murdered and buried in a
shallow grave, her eyes and mouth glued shut. The
children's teacher, Anne Navarre, arrives at the scene as Read more...
A serial killer is at work, and a task force of RCMP
officers is on the case. Constables Nolan, Tain and Hart
have joined the hunt -- Nolan working apart from his two
colleagues, and Tain and Hart together as partners. But all
three of them start to discover chilling connections Read more...
An inexperienced young attorney fights to defend her
client, an abused wife accused of murdering her husband, in
what seems to be an airtight case.
Briley Lester, a hardworking young attorney at a
prestigious Chicago law firm, is stunned when the senior
partners assign her to a high-profile murder Read more...
The notorious "Beauty Killer," Gretchen Lowell, has escaped
from prison and seems to have wasted no time in savagely
claiming more victims in the Portland, Oregon, area. Archie
Sheridan, the detective who is Gretchen's only surviving
victim, is in a psychiatric hospital, scarred mentally and
physically from their last Read more...
Deserted by her mother and never knowing her father,
Magdalena Varcek was raised by her grandmother, "Baba," who
told her to always look for the signs the universe would
give to make decisions in her life. After Baba dies, the
signs lead teenaged runaway Maggie to Ramon Jimenez. Too
late Read more...
Dr. Sara Linton has seen some gruesome sights in her work,
but nothing has prepared her for the woman brought into the
ER after being hit by a car. Sara's exam reveals that the
woman had been bound, starved and tortured before the
accident. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Read more...
John Shakespeare (older brother to William) is an
investigator who reports directly to Sir Francis
Walsingham, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth. When
Blanche Howard, a young cousin of the queen, is found
brutally murdered, with papers nearby that contain libelous
statements and threats against Elizabeth, Shakespeare must
move quickly Read more...
Sandra and Jason Jones seem to have the perfect life: both
are young and good looking; she's a schoolteacher, he's a
reporter; they have an adorable little girl and an older
but well-kept house in a good neighborhood. But when Sandra
disappears from the house one night Read more...
In the rough-and-tumble London of the late 1600s, Hannah
Devlin carries on her father's legacy as a doctor (although
unlicensed), struggling to keep her small household
together. Her life changes when she is forcibly taken to
Whitehall Palace by none other than Lord Arlington,
Secretary of State Read more...
The death of a child is always tragic, but even more so if
a family member is involved. When police find the body of 4-
year-old Jeffrey Reimer in a local park, his older brother,
Christopher, comes forward and claims that his teenaged
sister killed the boy. Now Shannon Read more...
It's 2099 and the United States no longer exists. In the
new world of the Republic, major cities are nuclear hot
zones, inhabited by wolves. Women must be nearly completely
covered in public. Those who have been affected by
radiation are known as Sub-Human Atomic Deviants,
or "shades Read more...
A seemingly innocuous box of donuts sent to Assistant
Director Cunningham at Quantico's FBI offices leads to a
nightmare for him and Agent Maggie O'Dell, who's with him
when he finds the threatening note inside. The note gives a
time and place that a "crash" is supposed Read more...
Detective Archie Sheridan is still haunted by Gretchen
Lowell, the seductive serial killer who once kidnapped and
tortured him. Gretchen is in prison, but Archie has
continued to see her on a regular basis. He tells himself
it's to get details to help identify at least some of
Gretchen Read more...
Abigail Campano experiences a mother's worst nightmare when
she comes home to find a stranger has brutally attacked her
daughter Emma -- and is still standing over the girl's body
with a knife in his hand. When he approaches Abigail, a
violent struggle ensues and she kills him.
As Read more...
A possible break in a cold case brings P.I. Louis Kincaid
from sunny Florida to chilly Michigan, where he faces not-
so-pleasant memories from his college days and early
experiences as a cop. His memories aren't nearly as
disturbing as those of a traumatized young girl, Amy Read more...
Lenore Howard
Born in Decatur, Illinois, Lenore has loved reading since first she wondered what green eggs and ham would taste like. After getting her B.A. in English, she worked as an administrative assistant at a local community college before moving to Chicago a few years ago to find a job where she could work with words. She is now a freelance proofreader and copy editor in educational publishing and has what she considers a dream job: getting paid to read!
Lenore started her reviewing career about 10 years ago at the request of friends from the Old Book Barn, who published a newsletter of romance reviews. She began with regencies (no one else wanted to do them), but has since reviewed contemporary and historical romances, mysteries, and women’s fiction. Having worked with Tanzey Cutter on the OBB Gazette, Lenore was happy to join her in the world of online reviewing at Fresh Fiction. Besides reading, Lenore enjoys writing, eating good chocolate (not that there’s any other kind), and collecting all things cat-related.
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