By: Julie Caplin
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: February 1, 2023
Izzy McBride is our hostess in the wintry Scottish Highlands as we prepare to dive into the work of renovating and opening a hotel at THE CHRISTMAS CASTLE IN SCOTLAND by Julie Caplin. Having inherited from her kind uncle, Izzy moves Read More...
By: Carolyn Haines
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: February 1, 2023
Sarah Booth Delaney stars in her twenty-fifth outing as a case arises near Christmas. Bay St. Louis is a coastal Mississippi town decked out with all the glitter, holly wreaths, and trees, and some unique versions too. BONES OF HOLLY also Read More...
By: Nina Crespo
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: February 1, 2023
Zurie Tillbridge is busily managing the Tillbridge Stables in the third book of this lively multicultural romance series. I so much enjoyed reading the earlier two. While a schoolgirl Zurie was a barrel racer, but now she has taken much Read More...
By: Marta Perry
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: February 1, 2023
The relatively relaxed Plain community of Promise Glen features in a seasonal offering from Marta Perry. THE SECOND CHRISTMAS is a great story for younger women who need some confidence as they learn about the wide world. Leah Beiler Read More...
By: Alice Henderson
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: February 1, 2023
If you’re a nature lover you’ll quickly find Alice Henderson's Alex Carter series addictive. I certainly have. Following her adventure with Churchill’s polar bears, Alex returns to mountainous forest land owned by the Read More...
By: Jennifer Greene
Reviewed By: Sandra Wurman
Posted: January 31, 2023
HIDEAWAY AT SILVER LAKE is a great introduction to Jennifer Green's new series, Snowflake Sisters. Memories are treasures. When life gets busy, we are filled with stuff we have to do. Chores seemingly take up all the air in the room. Read More...
By: Janet Dailey
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 31, 2023
Blake Dollarhide is continuing the family legacy. He is trying to catch the attention of the local schoolteacher who has eyes only for the family revival. Blake wants to try and stay neutral about the trouble brewing between the farmers Read More...
By: Kate Pearce
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 31, 2023
Evan Miller is the youngest member of the Miller family. He’s considered the one who tells you the truth no matter what. Evan is looking for a change in his life. It’ll take revealing a secret and the new woman in town to help Read More...
By: Christine Feehan
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 31, 2023
Savin “Savage” Pajari is along with his brother Sargent at Arms for Torpedo Ink. His job is interrogator and assassin. Savage will protect his family any way he can even if it’s taking away their strong emotions. Read More...
By: Donna Grant
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 31, 2023
Whisky and Wishes WHISKY AND WISHES brings Donna Grant’s beloved Dark Kings characters Con and Rhi past their separate pasts and hurts to come together and find happiness. This novella brings the reader up to date on the lives Read More...
By: Christine Feehan
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 31, 2023
Emmanuelle “Emme” Ferraro is trying to forget the man who betrayed her. When that same man is shot and bleeding she goes to help. Emme will have to figure out if the man she loves is worth a second chance. Valentino Read More...
By: Mia P. Manansala
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: January 30, 2023
If you love to read a multicultural story and soak up some cuisine and atmosphere, the third Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery is just the ticket. A busy Filipino family in Shady Palms, Illinois, prepares for the Christmas season in Read More...
By: Miriam Parker
Reviewed By: Evie Harris
Posted: January 30, 2023
Gillian led an exciting life as a publicist in New York City. She had her own business and was very good at what she did. Suddenly, she lost it all and now all she had was an offer to serve as a "dorm mother" at her former high Read More...
By: Julia Henry
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: January 30, 2023
Many gardeners spend winter planning the springtime clearing and planting. Early spring in Goosebush, Massachusetts, serves the now-approaching senior sleuth Lilly Jayne a surprise in THE PLOT THICKETS. While I had not read all the Read More...
By: Wanda M. Morris
Reviewed By: Evie Harris
Posted: January 30, 2023
It was the summer of 1964 when three young men were murdered. Their crime? They had come to Mississippi to help Black citizens get the right to vote. This was a troubled time in a troubled place and this was where Violet Read More...
By: Terry Spear
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 30, 2023
Maverick Wilding runs the local reindeer ranch. He and his twin brother are looking for a reindeer in the forest. Maverick gets into trouble when he tries to warn a woman at the lake. Gina Hutton is on a Big Foot hunt with her brother and Read More...
Reviewed By: Sandra Martin
Posted: January 27, 2023
EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE is a fun, inventive, highly addictive whodunnit that gives us a reliable narrator who plays fair with the clues. Referencing the Golden Age of mysteries and Ronald Knox’s 10 Commandments of Read More...
By: Natasha Lester
Reviewed By: Evie Harris
Posted: January 27, 2023
Orphaned by the age of thirteen, there was no way Alix St. Pierre could have known what her future held in store for her. And, what a future it was. During WWII, her position in the OSS changed her life. Working with Read More...
By: Janet Dailey
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 27, 2023
Kit Teague is headed home after the death of her mother. She and her twin sister and the rest of her family are estranged. Kit wants to fix the rift caused by her leaving with the family she left behind. Beau Sutton moved back home after Read More...
By: Carlene O'Connor
Reviewed By: Clare O'Beara
Posted: January 27, 2023
Well to-do Johnny O’Reilly is found deceased on a rocky beach in Kerry, in NO STRANGERS HERE, the first of Carlene O'Connor's County Kerry Mysteries. Someone left a strange message spelled out in pebbles. While there isn’t much Read More...
Reviewed By: Karen Siddall
Posted: January 27, 2023
Tucked away in an unremarkable Tokyo alley and down a flight of stairs is the little basement café called Funiculi Funicula. Inside, the space is small and dimly lit, with only three tables for two and a couple of seats at a Read More...
By: Kelly Rimmer
Reviewed By: Evie Harris
Posted: January 26, 2023
Lizzie and Sofie met in Huntsville in 1950. They were both there because of their husbands' work. Sofie's husband was brought to America from Berlin after WW II ended because he was a rocket scientist. Very few knew the Read More...
By: Anika Scott
Reviewed By: Evie Harris
Posted: January 26, 2023
When readers first meet Marya, a Russian in 1956, she is a prisoner in a Siberian gulag thanks in part to her sister Vera. Marya's crime? This depends on whose story you believe. Was she a spy or simply guilty of loving a British officer Read More...
By: Jayne Ann Krentz
Reviewed By: Kim Roller
Posted: January 26, 2023
Olivia LeClaire’s foray into speed dating isn’t going like she expected especially with the opening question she’s asking. That is until a man shows up and gives her the answer she’s been looking for. When Olivia Read More...