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Review: Hallowe’en Party (Hercule Poirot Series #36) by Agatha Christie
Happy Halloween readers! And what better way to celebrate this holiday than with a Halloween inspired mystery!? Confession alert…..I have never read anything by Agatha Christie. I know, sacrilege. I’m ashamed to call myself a mystery/detective novel fan! For years my family has been telling me that I absolutely must read a Miss Marple or a Hercule Poirot mystery as they are all so wonderful. So when Hallowe’en Party came up on my Amazon recommendations and was only $1.99, how could I resist downloading and reading it as my Halloween read?! While the staff and children at Woodleigh Common, decorate for a Hallowe’en party, they have a famous mystery author…
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Special Feature: First Impressions Book Club Kit
In a few short weeks 11/21/14, I will be posting my review of FIRST IMPRESSIONS by Charlie Lovett. If you are a fan of Jane Austen….which let’s face it, that’s pretty much everyone, then you will probably enjoy this book. I haven’t even read it yet and I already love it! I had the pleasure of reviewing one of Lovett’s other books, THE BOOKMAN’S TALE, earlier this year and loved both the story and his writing style! So when this came up to review, I jumped on it! In eager anticipation of reading this novel, I am thrilled to share this wonderful book club kit with you! This book club…
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Review: The Hawley Book of the Dead by Chrysler Szarlan
Reve (Revelation) Dyer’s life changes in the blink of an eye. She works as an assistant to her magician husband, Jeremy, and together they have three lovely daughters. Their magic show in Las Vegas draws crowds every night, but in an instant everything changes. While performing a magic trick, Defying the Bullets, she is supposed to ‘shoot’ her husband and he in turn coughs up the bullet. When blood sprays and Jeremy falls dead to the ground, the audience and Reve are completely stunned. It becomes clear that someone altered her gun with a real bullet but the question was why? Reve and her daughters suddenly start receiving envelopes of pictures…
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Review: Night of a Thousand Stars by Deanna Raybourn
Deanna Raybourn has been an author long on my radar. I hear wonderful things about her Lady Jane series from a number of people. So when the opportunity to review her latest standalone book, I was eager to try her books out! Poppy Hammond, is all set to marry into an aristocratic family but she has other plans which include making a run for it. She is assisted by the dashing curate Sebastian Cantrip who helps her escape to her family’s house where she can have some time to think and sort out her life. Before she can thank Sebastian for his assistance, he disappears and she sets her mind to…
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Review: Murder on the Île Sordou (Verlaque and Bonnet #4) by M.L. Longworth
Judge Verlaque and his girlfriend, law professor Dr Marine Bonnet are taking a much needed vacation on a secluded island off the coast of France, Sordou. The island was once a haven for the rich and famous in the 1960’s but was long forgotten but the elite in favor of other island destinations in the south of France. However the Le Bon family, Cat-Cat and Max, just bought the hotel and hope to restore it to its former glory. With the opening weekend on their life’s savings on the line, they need everything to go perfect….the last thing they need is a murder. This novel totally reminded me of Clue, set in France.…
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Special Feature: M.L. Longworth featured on NPR’s Crime in the City
When the seasons start to change from summer to fall….I find myself instinctively drawn to reading a good murder mystery. For me, fall means curling up by the fire with a pumpkin spice latte and reading a good who-dunnit! I was recently approached by Penguin to review M.L. Longworth’s latest novel Murder on the Île Sordou (Verlaque and Bonnet #4) and let me just say that this book is satisfying my urge to read a good mystery! I should finish it up tonight, I started reading it this weekend and haven’t put it down since! My review will be up later this month but in the mean time…..M.L. Longworth was recently featured…
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Special Feature: Harbor Island (Sharpe & Donovan #4) by Carla Neggers
I recently reviewed one of Carla Neggers’s Sharpe & Donovan novel, Declan’s Cross and though I didn’t read some of the other novels in the series, it was an interesting plot with with history, romance, and suspense. I am looking forward to the novel book in the series, Harbor Island. In this book, Emma Sharpe finds herself on a wild ride which takes her from Boston, to Ireland, and back across the pond to Maine. I am thrilled to be able to post this except from this thrilling novel! Please enjoy the excerpt and be sure to add it to your TBR list today!
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Review: The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent (Maggie Hope Mystery #4) by Susan Elia MacNeal
Maggie Hope has been under the spell of the ‘black dog’ for what seems like an eternity. Her depression and post traumatic stress are taking over her life. She can hardly remember what life was like before she became a spy and had her life turned upside down. She’s been throwing herself into her work as a trainer at an elite spy institute in Scotland, trying to escape the ‘black dog’. Maggie has nothing to distract her but her work. John Sterling and her are not on speaking terms, her mother faces death at the Tower of London, and as a spy she doesn’t have ‘friends’ that she can talk to…
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Giveaway: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books! THE BOOKMAN’S TALE is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries! Thanks to the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of THE BOOKMAN’S TALE for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy. See the list of other giveaways for multiple chances to win a copy! Giveaway runs 7/16/14 to 7/23/14 Winners will be announced 7/24/14. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in…
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Review: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
The socially awkward Peter Byerly is an antiquarian book collector who might have just made a huge discovery. Peter might have just discovered a manuscript–possibly a new Shakespearean manuscript–which needless to say would be priceless! Peter is in a bad spot, he’s just lost his wife nine months prior to the opening of the novel, and he’s really only ever loved two things…..books and Amanda. So now he’s left with only his books. Living in America, he decides to leave behind his old life and go live in the country cottage in the English countryside that him and Amanda bought before her death. Living in the cottage makes Peter somewhat of a…