My favorite coffeehouse barista, Juliet Langley, is back in action in Caroline Fardig’s Brew or Die. But Juliet is no longer just a coffeehouse manager who stumbles onto crime and sleuthing – now the red-head is an officially licensed private investigator in Nashville.  This makes perfect sense in the chronology of the character through the Continue reading

Isaiah (IQ) Quintabe is a kid from the streets in a tough part of town. Early in his life he, like many other kids his age, would shoplift from local stores and then sell his items on eBay.  But IQ discovered he had another talent.  A talent for solving problems.  He straightens out his ways Continue reading

Rhythm and Clues by Sue Ann Jaffarian is ‘An Odelia Grey Mystery’ meaning it’s part of a series featuring the same character.  Odelia Grey, is an older, over-weight (oops, sorry, the correct term is ‘plus-sized’) woman with a certain amount of sass and pizzazz who sticks her nose into mysteries. I’ve never read an Odelia Continue reading