Caught Read-Handed by Terrie Farley Moran is the second in the Read ’Em and Eat cozy mystery series set in the quirky Florida town of Fort Myers Beach (available July 7, 2015). Sassy and Bridgy are at it again in the second book in Terrie Farley Moran’s mystery series about a café complete with bookshop…
Echoes by Laura K. Curtis is the first romantic suspense in the Harp Security series, in which a travel writer's Caribbean trip to investigate her past collides with the disappearance of a resort owner who looks enough like her to be a sister (available March 17, 2015). A single photo of herself as an infant…
Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd is a standalone romantic suspense featuring a geologist, an FBI agent, and a long-buried secret that comes to light during an earthquake (available September 9, 2014). If you like the television show Bones, this book is right up your alley. Elizabeth Banner, the heroine, is a geologist whose father—Charles Banner,…
Well Read, Then Dead by Terrie Farley Moran is the first book in the Read ’Em and Eat cozy mystery series (available August 5, 2014). I picked up Well Read, Then Dead having read several of Terrie Farley Moran’s short crime stories and curious about how she would handle the longer format. Immediately, I was…
The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison is the first in a new series of FBI thrillers starring Englishman-turned-FBI-Agent Nicholas Drummond (available September 17, 2013). I always find it fascinating when two authors work together. The temptation to pick a book apart, try to find the bits written by one author or another…
Not every little girl dreams of a prince. Not every little girl plays with Barbie™. And not every dollhouse family is functional. If your dollhouse is a 1:12-scale house of horrors, it's possible that this may be the perfect kitchen table set for you. It's from Caustic Soda on Etsy, and she has a whole…
Tami Hoag's The 9th Girl is a police procedural and thriller featuring Detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska of the Minneapolis Police Department (available June 18, 2013). The 9th Girl is a hybrid story. First, there's the story of the girl herself. She's a Jane Doe (thus the title), possibly—but possibly not—the ninth victim of…
A Serpent’s Tooth by Craig Johnson is the ninth Walt Longmire western mystery (available June 4, 2013). It’s hard to review a book nine books into a beloved series, especially when you know a lot of readers will be coming to the book with a background from an equally beloved television version. A&E’s Longmire is…
Evil Dead, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Alien…all kinds of movies outside the realm of the kid-oriented get the action figure treatment at Old Colony Hobbies. He also does vintage-style backing cards for each figure. Really, the possibilities are endless and now my only questions is whether he makes them to order, because if he does…
Anyone who knows me will tell you that food is right at the top of my priorities in life. Follow my Twitter feed, and you’ll notice that probably a full 25 percent of my tweets are related to eating. Still, there are things that seem extreme even to me, like beating a chef to death…
