MYSTERY
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14 – Peter Clines
I knew nothing about this book, or the author, before digging in to it. And reading it on my Kindle, I didn’t even have the cover copy to give me a hint. What I found inside was as much a surprise as what Nate tucker and friends discover behind the door to room 14! Nate… Continue reading
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A STITCH IN CRIME – Cathy Elliot
I have some friends who are quilters, and coupled with the fact that I’ve rather recently discovered that I enjoy the mystery book market, I thought I’d broaden my reading a bit and try this mystery in the “Quilts of Love” series. What I’ve learned is that there are a LOT of different kinds of… Continue reading
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SEEKER – Jack McDevitt
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A BOOK FROM MY SHELF I’ve been familiar with the name of author Jack McDevitt, but I’d never read any of his works. I can’t say how or when this book found its way in to my home, but it did and I chose to read it, and boy … I sure… Continue reading
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FADE OUT – graphic novel
In the mid-1980s there was a comic book series called Wordsmith (by comic book company Renegade). The title was apparently never very popular (you can still pick up a copy, for less than the cover price), but I quite liked it since it followed the hard work of a pulp writer in the 1930’s-40’s. Ed… Continue reading
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A SCHOOL FOR UNUSUAL GIRLS – Kathleen Baldwin
I’ve read a few YA books recently that a about special, talented girls and their being sent away to develop their skills and knowledge. None has stated so succinctly the premise as this books title, A School for Unusual Girls (by Kathleen Baldwin). Given the number of books I’ve read (and I don’t typically seek… Continue reading
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CENTER OF GRAVITY – Laura McNeill
I love getting a book by an author with whom I am unfamiliar and then being taken completely by surprise in such a good way. Center of Gravity by Laura McNeill is one of those books for me. I read the book in the span of one day-light day. The action of the book moves… Continue reading
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THE WIDOW’S SON – Thomas Shawver
After my review of the previous “Rare Book Mystery” (Left Turn at Paradise), I thought that the series had promise, but I had never connected with the main character. I was eager to give the series another shot, and am glad that I did. The Widow’s Son, by Thomas Shawver, continues the exploits of book… Continue reading
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THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN – M.C. Beaton
It wasn’t too long ago that I reviewed the 24th book in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series, Something Borrowed, Someone Dead, and now we have book #25 in the series and I have to say that Agatha Raisin is growing on me. In The Blood of an Englishman, Agatha encounters a murder at a local… Continue reading
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TATTERED LEGACY – Shannon Baker
So… it was only just now, as I went to Goodreads to grab the URL of this book’s cover to paste into the blog post, that I discovered that this is the third book in the Nora Abbott Mystery series. This surprises me (pleasantly so) because, while it was clear that Nora had a well-developed… Continue reading
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A TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION – Chris Orcutt
Dakota Stevens is a modern detective for the modern mystery reader. This is the third book in the Dakota Stevens Mystery series, though only the first book that I’ve read, but I never once felt that I had missed too much back story, or that I was lost. This is precisely how a book series… Continue reading
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ENCHANTMENT LAKE – Margi Preus
The hardest reviews to write are for those books that do not stand out as either particularly bad or tremendously good. Enchantment Lake, by Margi Preus is a difficult book to assess. By all accounts, this book should be perfect for me. It’s a YA book, which I tend to love. It’s a mystery, which… Continue reading

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