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Book Blitz – Bayou City Burning by D.B. Borton

BAYOU CITY BURNING Harry & Dizzy Lark, Book 1 by D.B. BORTON Mystery / Detective / Humor / Historical Publisher: Boomerang Books Date of Publication: May 30, 2019 Number of Pages: 390 Houston, 1961: comedy meets mystery and history. It’s hard to be hard-boiled when your biggest fan and worst critic is your twelve-year-old daughter, especially when […]

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Review – Bayou City Burning by D.B. Borton

Bayou City Burning D.B. Borton File Size: 1856 KB Print Length: 390 pages Publisher: Boomerang Books (June 1, 2019) Publication Date: June 1, 2019 Language: English ASIN: B07PYL443C BOOK BLURB: It’s hard to be hard-boiled when your biggest fan and worst critic is your 12-year-old daughter, especially when she’s cracking your case for you and defending

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Twentieth Century Women

Please help me welcome mystery author, Kay Kendall, as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. She writes the Austin Starr series and recently released a prequel to those stories, After You’ve Gone that I reviewed here last Sunday. Since the story takes place during Prohibition, I thought we could try a common drink of the time called The Bee’s

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Book Review – After You’ve Gone by Kay Kendall

After You’re Gone Kay Kendall Austin Starr Prequel Paperback: 278 pages Stairway Press February 12, 2019 $14.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-941071-91-5 Genre: Mystery BLURB: When a long-lost relative turns up on the run from his rum-running mob boss and soon dies in a freak accident in small-town Texas during Prohibition, only 23-year-old Wallie believes it was murder.

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Mother Ann Lee – Mother of the Shakers

Please help me welcome Eleanor Kuhns as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. She is the author of a mystery series featuring Will Rees, a travelling weaver in the late 1700s who gets caught up in murders and becomes a first-rate investigator. I reviewed the latest book in the series, The Shaker Murders last Sunday, and you can

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Book Review – Murder on the Mullet Express

Murder on the Mullet Express Gwen Mayo and Sarah Glenn ISBN -13: 978-0-9964209-7-6 (Print), 978-0-9964209-8-3 (Kindle) Publisher: Mystery and Horror, LLC Paperback January 2017 BOOK BLURB: It’s 1926. The West Coast Development Company is staging its biggest land deal in Homosassa, Florida, selling pieces of a planned city to speculators who dream of a tropical

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Meet Author Rich Zahradnik

Rich Zahradnik is my Wednesday’s Guest today. He is the author of a mystery series featuring a journalist working in New York in the ’70s. A Black Sail is the latest book, and I reviewed it HERE last Sunday. I forgot to ask Rich what kind of refreshments he might like, but since he and Coleridge, the

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Book Review – A Black Sail by Rich Zahradnik

A Black Sail Rich Zahradnik Camel Press October 1, 2016 264 Pages ISBN: 978-1-60381-211-5 $15.95 BOOK BLURB –  A Black Sail is book three of a mystery/thriller series featuring newsman Coleridge Taylor, set on the mean streets of Manhattan and surrounding boroughs in the ’70s.  On the eve of the U.S. Bicentennial, Taylor is covering

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Book Review – Murder in Megara

Murder In Megara Mary Reed & Eric Mayer Series: John the Lord Chamberlain Mysteries Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition (October 6, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 1464204063 ISBN-13: 978-1464204067 Book Blurb – John, former Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, has been exiled from Constantinople to an estate in Greece, not far from

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Book Review – Death by Disputation by Anna Castle

Death by Disputation Anna Castle File Size: 1812 KB Print Length: 366 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0991602544 Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language: English ASIN: B00RC56VCW   Short Synopsis: Thomas Clarady is recruited to spy on a group of radical Puritans at Cambridge University. Francis Bacon is his spymaster;

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