By Victoria Tait (Author) After Dotty Sayers’ Christmas decor accomplishment and murder-solving adventure in Yorkshire, her “friend” Zach invites her to Northumberland to help him continue his family treasure hunt. Dotty has nothing better to do and is still not sure she wants to return to her home in the Cotswold yet, so she…
by Hope Callaghan (Author) What a hoot of a mystery story! Who knew that criminals could use Artificial Intelligence to promote a scam on Millie and her friends? Well they did, but, oh boy, did they NOT know Millie! Like a mama bear with her cubs in danger she leads her friends on the criminal’s…
by Alex Woolf (Author), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Thomas Judd (Narrator), Arcturus Digital (Publisher) An AUDIOBOOK Review I loved all the stories in this “retold for kids” version of Sherlock Holmes. They are very like the original ones that I read years ago, so the retelling of them is done well. I suppose some objectional words or objects, and maybe Holmes’…
by Audrey Alden (Author) I love cruising, so I read all the books I can that are set on cruise ships. DEAD MAN’S DISH is the first in a series by Audrey Alden, set in the present day. (Note the play-on-words with the main character’s last name, “Cruz.” Clever!) Rose Dela Cruz is a…
Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review I love Benedict Brown‘s Lord Edgington Investigates books, and have read (listened to) all of them to date. They are whodunnits, investigated by the 75-year-old, eccentric Marques of Edgington and his 18-year-old grandson. So fun! THE SNOWS OF WESTON MOOR (book 8) didn’t disappoint. There is an Agatha Christie-like…
by Katy Bowser Hutson (Author), Jodi Hays (Illustrator), Tish Harrison Warren (Foreword) A friend gave me this book after learning I too was facing breast cancer. It is a wonderful, visceral, raw, and very helpful book. Katy Bowser Hutson is a writer and poet. She begins the book with “The Week Before Cancer” when she was enjoying attending a writers’ conference. And…
by Barbara Neely (Author), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review “Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina.” She gets caught writing a bum check (because her bad-news employer didn’t pay her) and goes before a judge. In a fluke bit of black magic (well, kind of),…
by Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin As with the other 4 Lord Edgington Investigates books I’ve read, I loved THE MYSTERY OF MISTLETOE HALL. The characters are great, of course – 75 year old L. Edgington and his grandson, the now 17 year old Christopher (often called Chrissy to his…
by Liz Hedgecock (Author) A Book review by Jackie Houchin THE BOOK SWAP by Liz Hedgecock, is a fun, sweet, feel-good novella about a newly single mom who is very unsure of herself, and her little girl, who is not. Becca thinks she can make some friends at her daughter’s new school by joing the PTA. But…
by Stella Perrott (Author) a Book review by Jackie Houchin DRIVING MISTER CRAZY (a takeoff on the movie, Driving Miss Daisy) is a story about a English widow with nursing skills and patience beyond that of Job’s, who is on her way to live with her children in Australia, but must spend a year in England…
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