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  • Review: A Royal Pain (Her Royal Spyness #2) by Rhys Bowen

    April 9, 2019 / 3 Comments

    As you might have guessed, I am burning my way through this series at an alarming rate. Not even half way through the first book, I had to order the rest of the books in the series because I knew that I would be reading all of them in a matter of weeks. I have read the latest book in this series, Four Weddings and Maybe a Funeral (the last book to date)….I know—don’t ask me why but I read them completely out of order and I figured that I better remedy that situation and start from the beginning. But I wasn’t expecting to love this series as much as…

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  • Review: Who Slays the Wicked (Sebastian St. Cyr #14) by C.S. Harris

    April 4, 2019 / 3 Comments

    This is another series that I came into way late in the game. I read the first book in the series and then skipped a head to books 12 and 13. And of course now, here we are at book 14. I love Sebastian, AKA Viscount Devlin, though so I couldn’t pass up this book when it came up for review. I will get into how jumping around in the series effected my reading experience later on in my review, but for now I want to talk a little bit about why this series appealed to me. When I was pitched the 12th book, I hadn’t heard of this series…

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  • Review: Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery #3) by Vivien Chien

    March 20, 2019 / Comments Off on Review: Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery #3) by Vivien Chien

    I discovered Lana Lee and the Noodle Shop Mystery series just over a year ago and frankly I paid yes to the first book because I loved the Chinese take out container on the front—-it made me hungry. I am seriously motivated by food, it’s embarrassing! But, that cute little Chinese container book contained a rather interesting mystery and a hysterical leading lady in Lana Lee. I was eager for the next book and found it equally enjoyable. So here we are with the third book and the fourth due out this summer. I was absolutely on board with reading the third book. How could I not love this series…

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  • Review: A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell #4) by Deanna Raybourn

    March 12, 2019 / 1 Comment

    This was a series that I perpetually have no pre order. I was sold on it even before it came out. I saw the cover in 2015 and immediately knew I needed this book so I pre ordered a copy. I fell in love with Veronica Speedwell the moment I started reading. She was refreshing, unconventional, over the top, and just so sassy. I loved the chemistry between her and her leading man, Stoker. Since the inception of this series, I have been first in line with the next installment comes out. The last book left me feeling a little wanting in the relationship department though, so I was extra eager…

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  • Winner: WHY KILL THE INNOCENT (Sebastian St. Cyr #13) by C.S. Harris

    March 9, 2019 / Comments Off on Winner: WHY KILL THE INNOCENT (Sebastian St. Cyr #13) by C.S. Harris

    And the winner of the paperback copy of WHY KILL THE INNOCENT by C.S. Harris is….. Caitlin The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the author for making this giveaway possible!

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  • Special Feature and Giveaway: Why Kill the Innocent (Sebastian St. Cyr #13) by C.S. Harris

    February 26, 2019 / 3 Comments

    I only discovered Sebastian St Cyr two years ago and the entire time I was reading the first book in this series, I kept thinking to myself—why am I only now finding this series!? I absolutely adore this series because it’s different and yet familiar at the same time. Lord Devlin is a lord but he isn’t the typical squeaky clean arm chair detective that you find in a number of other detective novels of the same period. I think it makes him stand out. While this is an established series, I found that jumping around within the series was generally fine. Sure there were things I missed but overall, the…

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  • Review: In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley #2) by Cara Hunter

    February 25, 2019 / Comments Off on Review: In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley #2) by Cara Hunter

    This book arrived on my desk for review a little late in the game for me. It came early in February and most of my February review schedule was set and I wasn’t sure that I wanted to try and add one more book to the month. However, this book sounded positively horrifying—a woman and child are found in the basement of a house barely alive and can’t speak and no one knows who they are? What in the world—was the first thing that went through my mind. I was instantly curious and eager to find out what this book was all about. So I did what any sensible book…

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  • Review: Live and Let Pie (A Bakeshop Mystery #9) by Ellie Alexander

    December 31, 2018 / 2 Comments

    As I have said before, I love supporting local authors or at the very least, books set in my home state. Oregon isn’t exactly the most exciting state in the union so when I find books set here, I am always interested to read them and see how they measure up. That’s how I found Ellie Alexander. When one of Alexander’s book came up for review, I was eager to read it and I loved it! It was the first in a new series and was set in Leavenworth Washington. Ok so not exactly Oregon but close enough. Then I started reading her other more established series, Bakeshop Mysteries which…

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  • Review: Hall of Mirrors (Bryant & May #15) by Christopher Fowler

    December 17, 2018 / Comments Off on Review: Hall of Mirrors (Bryant & May #15) by Christopher Fowler

    I happened to pick up the first book in the Bryant and May series a couple of years ago at my local used book shop. The first thing that caught my eye was the interesting and quirky cover. In a sea of mystery novels the early Bryant and May covers really caught my eye. I would probably have never picked up the books had I not seen these lovely covers. When I read the first book, the one thing that stood out head and shoulders above the rest was the dead pan banter between the two detectives—they had so much chemistry and it made the story fun to read and…

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  • Review: The Gold Pawn (Art Deco Mystery #2) by L.A. Chandlar

    November 21, 2018 / 1 Comment

    This was a series that I hadn’t heard anything about. The author and the series were completely new to me but I fell in love with the cover and was eager to see what it was about. I am always on the look out for new historical mysteries and Kensington Books have a slew of authors that I have come to enjoy over the years. November 1936. Mayor La Guardia’s political future buckles under a missing persons case in New York City. Simultaneously, Lane unravels devastating secrets in the outskirts of Detroit. As two crimes converge, judging friends from enemies can be a dangerous game . . . Finally summoning…

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