Two Kelly Medina's in the same town is one too many in this new thriller by Amber Garza. Kelly Median gets a call from her old pediatric office confirming her appointment for her 'well-baby' appointment. Thing is Kelly doesn't have a baby. It's been many years since...
Set in the mid-19th century Australia, three women's lives will never be the same again. For Evangeline, a 21 year old nanny, it's off to jail and then to a penal colony in Australia to a woman's prison. She got involved with the step-son of the lady of the house and...
I love Historical Fiction novels and The Royal Highness by Wendy Holden it GREAT. It tells the story of the future Queen of England Elizabeth and her sister's childhoods with their nanny Marion Crawford, a lady that will be forever shunned by the Royal Family. In 1933...
Book number 27 in the Meg Langslow series finds it's time for the annual Renaissance Faire, put on by Grandmother Cordelia and finds the whole family working the event for the summer. For Michael, Meg's husband, it's a return to the stage for a show each night along...
We are back in Bad Axe County in Wisconsin and it's party time. It's the annual Syttende Mel (or Norwegian Independence festival). But it's far from a party. A hispanic male worked has been beaten and refuses to say what happened to him and there's the murder of a...
F I O N A began her career in New York City as an actress, where she worked on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in regional theater. After getting a master's degree at Columbia Journalism School, she fell in love with writing, leapfrogging from editor to freelance...
Book Review By Russell Whitehouse China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) has been, surprisingly, scarcely covered by the American media, overlooked in favor of the topics of trade deficits and now Covid. The infrastructure megaproject touches over 60 countries and will...
The Right Sort Of Man came out in 2019 and I loved it. It's written by author Allison Montclair (a fake name for the author who is well know for writing historical fiction). Her follow-up novel A Royal Affair is just as good or even better than the first novel....
I've read a lot of celebrity biographies and I have to say Oliver Stone's is right there at the top of the list. He tells his story in an honest, upfront way. Nothing is held back as he starts from when he was a kid and right up to the release of Platoon. He tells...
In Beaufort, N.C. a bed and breakfast takes center stage in author Victoria Gilbert's new booklover's series, which hosts book events. Charlotte Reed inherited the inn from her great aunt Isabella. It's a celebration of author Josephine Tey and a big party is planned....