MYSTERY
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IVY GET YOUR GUN – Cindy Brown
We’re back in an Ivy Meadows Mystery with Cindy Brown’s Ivy Get Your Gun. This time Ivy takes to the road for some out-of-town acting work, but she can’t escape the need to solve a mystery. The character of Ivy Meadows (aka Olive Ziegwart) is really growing now that we’re in this, her fourth mystery tale. Continue reading
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NOAH’S RAINY DAY – Sandra Brannan
I have a long back-log of ARC books that I’m trying to catch up on and as I write this, Noah’s Rainy Day by Sandra Brannan is the oldest book in my queue. One of the reasons I kept putting it off, I think, is because of the title, which sounds more like an Easy Continue reading
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SWING – Rupert Holmes
I was walking through one of my local libraries recently, just looking to see what caught my eye when this book popped out at me. Rupert Holmes…a name with which I am familiar, and ‘Swing’ … one of my favorite styles of music. This looked tailor-made for me. Ray Sherwood is a jazz saxophonist. He Continue reading
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JAR CITY – Arnaldur Indridason
After reading Reykjavic Nights I decided to try another of the Icelandic Arnaldur Indridason’s Inspector Erlendur mysteries. In Jar City, Inspector Erlendur is called in when a man is found murdered in Reykjavic apartment. The killer left a strange note identifying him/herself as the dead man. The dead man, Erlendur discovers, has an inauspicious past: Continue reading
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THE BURIED LIFE – Carrie Patel
If you’ve read many of my reviews you’ve probably seen me mention one of my favorite sci-fi publishers, Angry Robot Books. No…I get no kickbacks or preferential treatment for mentioning them. I like them because they take risks. They remind me of what DAW books was like in the 1970’s … edgy sci-fi that didn’t Continue reading
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THE STRIVERS’ ROW SPY – Jason Overstreet
The Strivers’ Row Spy is the debut novel for author Jason Overstreet and is a hit from page one all the way to the end. Sidney Temple is one of the first black men to graduate from Middlebury College in 1919 and he’s driven to make sure that the sacrifices his mother made in order Continue reading
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DEADLY OVERTURES – Sarah Fox
I’ve come to really enjoy mysteries and I’ve long looked forward to reading books that have a connection to music, and so Sarah Fox’s Deadly Overtures: A Music Lover’s Mystery appealed to me right from the start. But while I have found that I like mysteries, I have also discovered that I am not a Continue reading
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KILLING MAINE – Mike Bond
Killing Maine is the second book in the Pono Hawkins series by Mike Bond. I reviewed the first book, Saving Paradise, here. I was a little nervous about going in to this one, given my feelings about the previous novel. Fortunately, I enjoyed this story much more. Although Pono Hawkins embraces his life in Hawaii, when Continue reading
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SAVING PARADISE – Mike Bond
I’m getting just a little bit smarter…. I saw that an ARC book that I have in my queue is the second book in a series, so I thought I’d go and rent/borrow the first book in the series so that I wouldn’t be taken by surprise when I get to my ARC. Pono Hawkins Continue reading
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A TIME OF TORMENT – John Connolly
I’ve read a lot of self-published books and books by small press publishers since I started this blog and I can usually tell within the first few pages when I’m reading something by a less experienced author. Likewise, I can often tell within a page or two when I’m in the hands of a master Continue reading
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THE SINISTER PIG – Tony Hillerman
Not everything I read is an ARC … I’m a pretty dedicated library user as well. I’ve long been a fan of the American Southwest. It is one of my favorite places to visit and vacation. I’ve also been aware that Tony Hillerman – a name that any bibliophile should recognize – writes mysteries set Continue reading
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THE LAST POLICEMAN – Ben H. Winters
When it appears that the world will come to a screaming end very soon because of the approaching asteroid ‘2011GV1’ most of the human race gives up. Sometimes this is through quitting jobs, or taking in one’s bucket list, and sometimes it through suicide. In fact there are so many suicides that Detective Hank Palace Continue reading
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