A dead body is found with a gruesome rictus of a smile plastered on her face. Even worse, the dead body is the wife of best-selling author, Roger Koponen, whose novels feature horrifying deaths including one very similar to that of his wife. Roger was away at the Read more...
Siobhán O’Sullivan can barely contain her enthusiasm over the upcoming opening of a bookstore in Kilbane! She’s also feeling a little guilty as she hasn’t had time over the past few years for pleasure reading but hopes that a new bookstore Read more...
Aarav Rai should be living the glamorous life. After all, he’s the son and oldest heir of a wealthy businessman and a multimillionaire in his own right, thanks to the lucrative sales of his first novel. Instead, Aarav has been haunted by his mom’s disappearance Read more...
The annual ghost walk is a popular event in Charm, North Carolina, and Everly Swan is excited to assist. She’s loaded up teas and finger foods from her café and looking forward to a fun evening of ghostly tales surrounding the history of Charm. Unfortunately, things Read more...
It all started with a manuscript. . . Anne-Lise Briard discovers a typed manuscript left behind in her room at the Beau Rivage Hotel. Having no book of her own to read, she dives into the manuscript and is immediately enchanted by the storyline and the author’s usage Read more...
Lia Geiger is enjoying working at her knitting circle’s booth at the Crandalsburg Craft Fair. An assortment of crafts are readily available and Mother’s Day weekend promises to bring a lot of tourists--and a lot of potential sales--for everyone. Unfortunately, Darren, a local Read more...
Irene has taken on a monumental task in hopes of further cementing the peace treaty between the dragons and the Fae. She has agreed to have a Fae as an apprentice, a move seen as widely controversial for a whole host of reasons but mainly because there has been Read more...
It’s the Christmas season in Ocean Crest, which also means the Jersey Shore’s local Polar Bear Plunge is scheduled. This year, the Polar Bear Plunge is benefiting the Ocean Crest senior center so all the local businesses are participating. Lucy Berberian is representing her family Read more...
April Claus is trying to settle into her new home, new role, and with her new husband in Christmastown when tragedy threatens it all. April had been living contentedly in Oregon running a bed and breakfast when Nick Claus swept her off her feet. Little did she realize then Read more...
It’s Christmas time and Sarah Booth Delaney and her best friend and partner in the Delaney Detective Agency, are headed to Columbus, MS, to celebrate the local festivities there. They are accompanied by their friends Oscar, Cece, Jaytee, Harold, Millie, and of course Sarah Booth’s Read more...
THE AWAKENING is the first book in the Dragon Heart Legacy series and wow, what a start! It’s not often that I’m so blown away by a book that I’m left speechless to adequately describe just how much I love a Read more...
CANDY CANE CRIME is book number 5.5 in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series and switches perspectives from the earlier books. Cousin Charlotte is the main heroine and volunteers to help Bailey King out with yet another task Margot Rawlings wants to pile onto Bailey. Read more...
Millie Fisher takes her role as an Amish matchmaker seriously, even more so when the young man she’s worried about is one she considers a nephew. Ben Baughman only recently moved to Holmes County, but Millie knew him from her time in Michigan, where he’d Read more...
Everly Swan, proprietor of Sun, Sand, and Tea, is excited about the arrival of Mitzi Calgon to the seaside town of Charm, NC. Mitzi Calgon is a famous, albeit retired and generally reclusive, actress who has agreed to help Everly’s aunts with a documentary on saving the Read more...
Bertie James is hosting the 40th reunion at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library to mark the anniversary of the first day for that long-ago undergrad class. Lucy Richardson, the assistant director of the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, is helping with all the arrangements as she Read more...
Captain Kit Brightling loves the sea. Not only does she have a magical affinity for the sea itself, but she’s worked hard on the seas to rise up to her current rank as one of the few female captains after starting her early years as an abandoned Read more...
It's Christmastime and Siobhán Sullivan and her siblings (the O’Sullivan Six) are visiting West Cork for the holiday. James’ fiancée, Elise, is there with her whole family, including her famous grandfather, Enda Elliott. Enda is a well-known orchestra conductor and Read more...
Eleanor Wilde has been honing her swimming skills for her scuba diving trip to Malta with Nicholas Hartford III when plans unexpectedly change. Nicholas wants Eleanor to use her medium powers to locate a family’s missing heirlooms. Eleanor is much more excited about a trip to Scotland Read more...
Darby Piper and her business partner and friend, Samantha Porter, are at odds over the future of their investigation business, Two Girls Detective, when Samantha is killed. Worse yet, the detectives suspect murder and Darby is the prime suspect. Darby will have to team up with Tate Porter, Samantha Read more...
SWORD AND PEN is the fifth and concluding book in The Great Library series. Rachel Caine picks up the story line right after the startling and quite emotional events of SMOKE AND IRONRead more...
When I was a kid, my brother and I were riding in the back of a pickup truck (this was back in the days when that was considered okay!). My parents were in the truck driving us along a dark, forested area on some small road in the middle of nowhere, SC. My brother and I have overactive imaginations and swore we saw "tree people" staring at us and banged loudly on the window and demanded we all squeeze inside the truck so we'd be safe from the "tree people". We still laugh about it to this day!
I love to travel! My favorite place to travel is somewhere new. This summer we explored Las Vegas and went to the Grand Canyon. I also went on my first ghost tour in Savannah, GA.
Love love LOVE Castiel! In fact, I love just about anyone on Supernatural as that still ranks as one of the best tv shows in that genre imo. And Hellboy... who can't help but love Hellboy just cause!
Those 5 things are so very, very true!! I'm so sorry you couldn't find a way to put the Dooziers on a cruise- even the thought has me laughing like a loon. As for your question, I try to avoid hobby groups other than book clubs but yes, I've been in a book club with an individual that should be thankful the members didn't read a lot of mystery novels or I'm sure they'd have figured out a way to dispose of her permanently LOL!!!
I love vampires, shifters, and all sorts of other supernatural creatures... but a zombie? Oh this is one story I MUST read! Love your first paragraph of this blog as it hooked me.
Why do I read? That's almost like asking me why do I breathe?? I've been reading for as long as I can remember. My parents made sure I developed a love of reading. Anyone else old enough to remember the records that accompanied the children's books?? I had my own little record player and I played all of those little 45s and 33s to death!
I usually try to read a book before seeing the movie. There are a few authors I prefer the movies to the books though, and John Grisham is one of those actually.
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