Archive for November, 2011

Book Reviews: The Leopard by Jo Nesbo, The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman and Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance

The Leopard Jo Nesbo Translated by Don Bartlett Harvill Secker, January 2011 ISBN: 978-1-846-55401-8 Paperback [It should be noted that this book is presently only available in/through the UK & Canada. It will be published in the US in hardcover on 12/13/11 by Knopf Publishing Group.] The latest Harry Hole novel presents the reader with [...]

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November 9, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Brenda Strange Investigates The Supernatural And Teddy Bears Too!

Patty G. Henderson is an author, publisher and artist. An independent author, she launched her own publishing imprint, Black Car Publishing, but is now concentrating on mainly eBooks  with Savage Tiki Digi Books. She has penned four  Brenda Strange Supernatural Mysteries, The Burning of Her Sin, Tangled and Dark, The Missing Page and Ximora. Patty [...]

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November 8, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  4 Comments

Book Review: Edited for Death by Michele Drier

Edited for Death Michele Drier Mainly Murder Press, October 2011 ISBN 978-0-9836823-1-8 Trade Paperback The recent death of a US Senator, also a World War II hero, leads Amy Hobbes, manager of a small-town newspaper, to send her reporter, Clarice, to the Senator’s nearby hometown on assignment.  Marshalltown, in Northern California, is a survivor of [...]

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November 7, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews  No Comments

To Review Or Not To Review, That Is The Question

Jinx Schwartz is an award-winning author with books in print, ebook format, and audio. Her Land of Mountains, set in Haiti in the 1950′s, is a Finalist for EPIC’s 2012 Best YA (but suitable for all ages), and her Hetta Coffey Mystery Series has won the EPPIE for Best Mystery. All of her books are [...]

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November 6, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  12 Comments

Book Review: The Arranger by L.J. Sellers

The Arranger L.J. Sellers Spellbinder Press, August 2011 ISBN 9780983213857 Trade Paperback Step into the world of tomorrow. America is experiencing dark days with 21% unemployment, very high inflation, $8 per gallon gas, millions homeless, extra lax gun laws, shrinking federal government, and people wanting better jobs because of health insurance. Reality television has hit [...]

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November 5, 2011  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Rejection Slips and Other Ciphers

Melodie Campbell has been a banker, marketing director, comedy writer, college instructor, and possibly the worst runway model ever.  Melodie got her start as a humor columnist, so it’s no surprise that editors have called her work ‘wacky’ and ‘laugh out loud funny’.  She has over 200 publications and has received five awards for fiction.  [...]

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November 4, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  8 Comments

Book Review: Gone with a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West

Gone with a Handsomer Man Michael Lee West Read by Marguerite Gavin Tantor Audio, May 2011 (Minotaur Books) ISBN 978-1-4526-0207-3 Unabridged Audio Book Teeny Templeton did the unthinkable—she decided her life was heading in exactly the direction she always wanted. She was about to get married to a wonderful, wealthy Charleston man and, being a [...]

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November 3, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews  No Comments

Book Reviews: The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill, The Dog Sox by Russell Hill and Negative Image by Vicki Delany

The Woodcutter Reginald Hill Harper, August2011 ISBN No. 978-0062060747 Hardcover Wilford Hadda began life as the son of a Cumbrian woodcutter on the Ulphingstone estate.  Sir Leon Ulphingstone gave him the nickname of Wolf.  At one stage in his life, Wolf Hadda held the title Sir Wilford Hadda. Reginald Hill takes the reader through the [...]

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November 2, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly

The Little Women Letters Gabrielle Donnelly Touchstone, June 2011 ISBN 978-1-4516-1718-4 Hardcover In this cleverly written novel, the author weaves letters from a fictional Louisa May Alcott character, Jo March, between the pages of a contemporary story that involves her great-great granddaughters, Emma, Sophie and Lulu. The entire family is blissfully happy, being born from [...]

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November 1, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews  No Comments