The year is 1924 and in Brookly, New York, three women's lives are about to change. Beatrice and her young 16 year old ward Alice have moved her from New Orleans. Bea as she goes by use to be a madam and owned a brothel, until the city made them illegal. She has moved...
Book Review: ‘Death In The Margins: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery’ By Victoria Gilbert
Amy Muir is visiting her dancing husband Richard as he prepares a new show at the nearby theater in the neighboring town of Smithsburg. She notices a run-in with one of the stars of the show and former girlfriend of Richard, the nasty Meredith Fox, who likes to act...
Book Review: ‘A Streetcar Named Murder: A New Orleans Mystery’ By T.G. Herren
Valerie Cooper lives in New Orleans in a big house now that her twin sons are off to college at LSU. She's a widow, having lost her husband five years ago. When she gets a letter from a law firm, it changes everything. Her late husband and his heirs (including...
Book Review: ‘Three-Edged Sword: A Riley Wolfe Novel’ By Jeff Lindsay
Riley Wolfe is a master thief and is back for his third novel. He's picked up and blackmailed by a corrupt CIA leader named Chase Prescott, who has kidnapped his sick mother, and his friend Monique, from the hospitals they were in. He wants Riley to go to Russia, and...
Book Review: ‘Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail: A Novel’ By Ashley Herring Blake
For Astrid Parker failure is not an option. She broke up with her fiancé a year ago, and her business as an interior decorator is not doing well. Not all is lost now, as she gets the chance to be the decorator for Pru Everwood, and her inn, which will be filmed by...
Book Review: ‘Hunting Time: A Colter Show Novel’ By Jeffrey Deaver
Colter Shaw has been hired to find a product stolen from a startup company that's developing miniature nuclear power plants. He's able to retrieve it, but then inventor Allison Parker and her daughter go missing. Her ex-husband, former cop Jon Merritt, is out of jail,...
Book Review: ‘NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority’ By Marshall Karp
Author Marshall Karp has taken over the NYPD Red series from co-writing with James Patterson, to writing the whole thing himself, and has done an outstanding job with this new novel. Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald are part of the Elite Red squad, part of...
Book Review: ‘The Choice: The Dragon Heart Legacy Finale’ By Nora Roberts
It's the conclusion to the Dragon Heart series, and what an ending it is. It has everything you would expect in a Nora Roberts Trilogy, where good faces off against evil. There are tragic deaths, marriages, babies, and the fight to end all fights. If you've read...
Book Review: ‘A Very Merry Bromance: A Novel’ By Lyssa Kay Adams
Country music superstar Colton Wheeler has had his share of women over the years, but Gretchen Winthrop has really gotten under his skin. They have a one-night stand at the wedding of his friend Mac, and then Gretchen leaves and has no interest in anything more. A...
Interview: Author ‘Rhys Bowen’ Talks Her New Book Peril In Paris: A Royal Spyness Novel
Rhys Bowen is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Royal Spyness Series, Molly Murphy Mysteries, and Constable Evans. She has won the Agatha Best Novel Award and has been nominated for the Edgar Best Novel. Rhys’s titles have received rave reviews around the...





