The Summer Son Craig Lancaster Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: AmazonEncore (January 25, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935597248 ISBN-13: 978-1935597247 Craig Lancaster has a knack for exploring relationships on all levels, and The Summer Son does that as well as any book out there. Mitch Quillen has had a rocky relationship with his father that has […]
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Tomb With A ViewBy Casey DanielsISBN: 97804252355152010 mass market releasefrom Berkley Prime Crime Pair one of our less interesting presidents, James A. Garfield, with a cute slender, sexually aware private detective, cum medium, and what do you get? You get this delightful cozy mystery, one of several in Casey Daniel’s series of Pepper Martin adventures.
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Thanks to Carl Brookins for sharing another review with us… Kind of Blueby Miles CorwinISBN: 978-1-60809-007-5From Oceanview Publishing323 pages, November, 2010 A few years ago, this author wrote a couple of serious non-fiction books about the Los Angeles Police Department. He spent a lot of time with cops in that city and wrote books that
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Thank you, Carl, for sharing yet another book review with us….. The Cruel Ever Afterby Ellen HartA Minotar (St. Martin’s Press)2010 release. Hard cover, 320 pgs.ISBN: 9780312624768 This, Hart’s nineteenth Jane Lawless mystery, is probably the darkest and most shocking of the series. The book is full of painful, difficult relationships and actions. The extensive
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As a great fan of humor writing, I was eager to get this book for review. It is a collection of short pieces on politics, family, general absurdities, and some social commentary thrown into the mix. Here is what the promotional blurb has to say about this book: In Sitting on Cold Porcelain, readers will
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Thanks again to Carl Brookins for sharing his book reviews. Death Pans Outby Ashna GravesHardcover, 288 pages,from Poisoned Pen Press Reporter Jeneva Leopold, faced with a life-altering decision, takes a leave of absence from her job to recover from surgery. Breast cancer has claimed part of her body and she wants time to recover in
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For a change, I thought I would publish my own review. Not that I don’t appreciate the reviews Carl Brookins shares with us, but I just finished this book and liked it well enough to tell others…. Summer at Willow LakeSusan WiggsContemporary Romancee-Book version – 2010 This is a wonderful story with many layers and
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Before I do the review of this book, I want to mention that I am the guest today on the blog for Creatures & Crooks Books. The owner, Lelia Taylor, is known for being a cat-lover, so she has started a series of guest blogs about cats. Sometimes she’ll let a dog in, just for
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Since I missed my usual Sunday review yesterday, I thought I would post one today. Again, thanks to Carl Brookins for sending the reviews. Bird Lives!Author, Bill MoodyPublisher: WalkerISBN: 0-8027-3327-1pub. date: 1999248 pages, hardcover Another fine novel in the Evan Horn series. A smoothly written psychological thriller. it’s tight, fast-paced, and should greatly please fans
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AbsolutionBy Susan FleetISBN: 978-1-4357-0841-9Pub. 2008, Lulu & Kindle This brutal, dark and explicit novel has a compelling drive to the third-person narrative that makes it difficult to stop reading. In part, I suspect, readers may be drawn on by an almost irresistible desire to learn how much further the author is willing to go. Set
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