Archive for the ‘My Reviews’ Category
Book Review: Murder Half-Baked by Kathleen Delaney
Murder Half-Baked Kathleen Delaney Camel Press, May 2011 ISBN 978-1-60381-828-5 Trade Paperback Real estate agent Ellen McKenzie is in the midst of preparations for her wedding to Dan Dunham, the local police chief, and has to contend with the horror of a wedding dress, ruffled hoopskirt and all, her mother has sent to this forty-something [...]
November 22, 2011
Tags: California, cozy, domestic violence, mystery, real estate agent, softboiled Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 
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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.В Marshalltown, in Northern California, is a survivor of [...]
November 7, 2011
Tags: California, Germany, holocaust history, journalist, Mainly Murder Press, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No 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 [...]
November 3, 2011
Tags: audio book, Charleston SC, humor, Minotaur Books, mystery, romance, Southern, Tantor Audio Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
A Dog’s Purpose W. Bruce Cameron Read by George K. Wilson Tantor Audio, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4001-1645-4 Unabridged Audio Book Also available as a Forge trade paperback A puppy plays in the woods with his mom and his siblings but this is not an entirely idyllic scene. The puppy and his family are feral and the [...]
October 22, 2011
Tags: animals, autobiography, Forge, general fiction, humor, reincarnation, Tantor Audio Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 3 Comments
Book Review: Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Ashes Ilsa J. Bick Egmont, September 2011 ISBN 978-1-60684-175-4 Hardcover (e-ARC) Three young people, strangers to each other, band together along with a dog named Mina for survival in the Waucamaw Wilderness after an electromagnetic pulse has destroyed all electronic devices. Unknown to them, billions of people have died but teenaged Alex, eight-year-old Ellie and [...]
October 8, 2011
Tags: Egmont, EMP, science fiction, trilogy, wilderness survival, young adult, zombies Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: The Shattering by Karen Healey
The Shattering Karen Healey Little, Brown and Company, September 2011 ISBN 978-0-316-12572-7 Hardcover Summerton is a lovely resort town on the west coast of New Zealand, a town that’s perhaps a bit too perfect. While other small towns struggle to remain vibrant and appealing and they watch their residents, especially the younger ones, move away [...]
September 28, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, Little Brown and Company, magic, mystery, New Zealand, teen suicide, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
A Contest Winner and Book Review: Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis
Congratulations to Terry Parrish, winner of a signed copy of Under the Dog Star by Sandra Parshall! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hard Spell Justin Gustainis Angry Robot Books, July 2011 ISBN 9780857661159 Mass Market Paperback Detective Stan Markowski and his partner, Karl Renfer, have been called out to a crime scene but it’s not your run of the [...]
September 6, 2011
Tags: Angry Robot Books, dark fantasy, hardboiled, mystery, noir, occult, police procedural, supernatural Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Ashfall Mike Mullin Tanglewood Press, October 2011 ISBN 978-1-933718-55-2 Hardcover (e-ARC) Alex, a fifteen-year-old living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is alone for the weekend, having browbeat his parents into letting him stay home while they take his little sister to visit relatives in Warren, Illinois. He’s looking forward to doing his own thing (mostly geek [...]
August 20, 2011
Tags: action adventure, dystopian, natural disaster, post-apocalyptic, science, science fiction, survival, Tanglewood Press, thriller, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Mai Tai One On by Jill Marie Landis
Mai Tai One On Jill Marie Landis Bell Bridge Books, July 2011 ISBN 978-1611940442 Trade Paperback Emily Johnson needed to start a new life when her marriage broke up rather badly so she moved to Hawaii to help her uncle run his restaurant, the Tiki Goddess Bar, on the island of Kauai. Favored by locals [...]
August 15, 2011
Tags: Bell Bridge Books, cozy, Hawaii, humor, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 3 Comments
Book Review: Murder of a Sweet Old Lady by Denise Swanson
Murder of a Sweet Old Lady Denise Swanson Signet, 2001 ISBN 0451202724 Mass Market Paperback Poor Skye Denison. Her life just keeps getting more and more entangled in the little hometown she’d like to escape for a second time and now she’s involved in another murder, this one of someone very dear to her. Some [...]
June 6, 2011
Tags: cozy, Illinois, mystery, Signet Posted in: My Reviews No Comments
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