Book review

  • A prequel to One is the Deadliest Number, book 1 in the Purrs and Personality Types series. Constance has been widowed and discovered that her husband was cheating on her. Walking home from his funeral in the rain, she encounters a cat on the street who seems to have an injured paw. Desperate to help,…

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  • Tiberus is no ordinary black cat. He is the Guardian of Gloomwood Manor, Keeper of the Key and Protector of the Seal. Unfortunately the key has gone missing, and the protective wards around Eldergloom have already begun to weaken, leaving Tiberius with no choice but to go investigate. After questioning animals and familiars around town,…

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  • Lusus Naturae by Chris Coppel

    When scientists prepare to investigate a sunken ship off the coast of Deal in Kent, they end up salvaging a lot more than they bargained for. The military becomes unvolved, and an unnatural monster is unwittingly let loose after a long hibernation. Fueled by a burning desire for human flesh, the deadly creature stalks the…

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  • Celebrating Agatha Christie’s birthday today with a review of her autobiography, a collection of stories from Agatha Christie’s own life from her earliest childhood memories to her later years. Recommended for anyone who wants to know more about the name behind the many books. Agatha Christie’s autobiography is not a book about the novels she…

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  • Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century, a place in the grips of a Puritan wave of violence and punishment as suspected sinners, witches and blasphemers were tortured and killed in the name of righteous persecution. Boston, present day. Detective Martina “Marti” Zucco is following in her late father’s footsteps, working on the force.…

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  • Book 1 in the Jane Christie series. 50 year old Jane Christie is obssessed with two things, reading murder mysteries and reminiscing about her late husband Gerry. She is reclusive, lonely and seemingly incapable of moving on with her life. But after a fall from a roof leaves her in a coma, she wakes up…

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  • The Dry

    Book 1 in the Aaron Falk series. In the small farming town of Kiewarra in Australia, the Hadler family is found brutally murdered, with the infant daughter being the only survivor. Aaron Falk, Federal Police investigator in Melbourne, is called back to town for the Hadler funeral. As a child, Aaron was best friends with…

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  • Book 1 in the California Bookshop Mystery series. After being dumped by her boyfriend and business partner, Scarlett has single-handedly managed to achieve her dream of having a bookstore by the seashore in sunny Southern California. But her cozy bookworm routines are suddenly interrupted when she finds a dead body under the pier near her…

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  • Book 1 in the Trouble in Paradise! series. Plum Lockhart is a brash travel magazine editor in New York. When she looses her job, she decides to take up an offer as a villa broker on a Caribbean resort island. What may sound like a dream location to many, soon reveals itself to be quite…

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  • Book 1 in the A Catskill Summer Resort Mystery series Summer of 1953. Elizabeth’s mother Olivia is a retired Broadway and Hollywood dancer. When her third husband emptied her bank accounts, she was left with nothing but the Haggerman’s Catskills Resort and called Elizabeth to help her run the place. And by “help” she means…

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