by Victoria Tait (Author) I totally enjoy reading Victoria Tait’s Waterwheel Cafe mysteries with police officer Keya Varma and her cop and cafe friends. And, I have to say, her new MINT TEA AND A MIDSUMMER MURDER is one of the best. Familiar characters and settings, plus a twisty murder mystery to solve, are what I expect…
by Dusti Bowling (Author), Stacy Gonzalez (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review I bought and listened to this book because I have read and loved two other Dusti Bowling books for middle-grade kids. Like the others, “Across the Desert” is full of excitement, hardship and heartache, and a whole lot of need to overcome a giant obstacle or two. …
Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Writing Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an essay based on the story you will most likely tell others. “Be Prepared” “Be Prepared” was the impression I received on a Sunday as we walked from our parked car to…
Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Challenge. For today’s prompt, write about a work experience. Knickknack, Paddy-whack, Give a Dog a Bone Very early on, when I was nine or ten, I became the chief knickknack duster of our home. My mother, a widow, worked…
by Varian Johnson (Author) A Book Review I found this book in my Little Free Library and decided to read it before another reader grabbed it. The book caught my attention because of the blurb on the back, which read, “A political heist page-turner set in a middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us…
by Dusti Bowling (Author), Aaron Shedlock (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review Dusti Bowling’s 24 HOURS IN NOWHERE is “a keeper.” This book is for middle school or young teens, but readers on either side of that age range will enjoy and identify with it. Hey, I’m in my 70s, and I was angered, thrilled, scared, and possibly even…
by Nev March (Author), Vikas Adam (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) An audiobook review MURDER IN OLD BOMBAY! What a grand tale of adventure, suspense, mystery, intrigue, and a love too strong to die. Set in 1890s Bombay and surrounding areas in British-ruled India, a brave, principled, half-Indian ex-soldier takes on a murder investigation with not a bit of experience, only…
by P.C. James (Author) A Book Review Hey Diddle Diddle, the RUNAWAY Riddle is P.C. James’s (NOT P.D. James!) cozy mystery set in England in the 1960s, before cell phones. I only mention cell phones because there are numerous, no, countless times the retired inspector has to look for and use a phone box to ask for…
by Victoria Tait (Author) CHAMOMILE TEA AND A COPYCAT CRIME is the fourth in Victoria Tait‘s Waterwheel Cafe Mystery series. It’s a fun, cozy police procedural with an added course in business management! Sergeant Keya Varma is a part-time police officer at the Cirencester Police Station in Cotswold. Her other life is as owner…
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