🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This collection of eight original short stories features Mike Bowditch and his colleague, retired game warden Charley Stevens, a duo made popular in a series of novels penned by this author, and the first this reader has come to experience. Reminiscent of Robert B Parker’s Jesse Stone, Mike Bowditch…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 “Nothing to do, but let the dread eat her alive.” A cat and mouse game of the highest order, this psychological suspense novel teems with tension as a thirty-four year old finger-print analyst, still grieving the loss, decades earlier, of her teenage sister, encounters the relentless stalking of a…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 The ninth installment of the Shetland series, this mystery takes place in a new location — Orkney, a remote series of islands north of Scotland, rich with archeological significance. Famous for their Neolithic structures, the author incorporates two of these — a pair of ancient story stones from the…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A well plotted thriller centering on a relatable debut author and her first book tour, beginning with a trickle of menace and turning into a full-blown downpour. Tessa Calloway, our third-person POV narrator, is a former corporate trainer who has struck it big with her first novel. Starring the…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A wonderfully diverse mystery, peopled with characters you will wish for more time with, this is the third (and final) book in a trilogy featuring PI Merry Bell, a transgender woman based in Saskatchewan, Canada. The first in the series for this reader, this book is easily enjoyed as…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gardner Camden (Gardy) is a thirty-seven year old FBI agent who works for an unusual division called PAR (Patterns and Recognition). With a focus on solving the toughest crimes, those involving pattern recognition and the making of obscure connections, Gardy is a genius level agent, who just happens to…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wowza! A perfectly crafted multiple-POV psychological suspense story, rich with sizzling characters (all of them hiding something) and a setting as lip-smackingly luscious as it is creepy and sinister. With a plot that builds, and winds, and re-winds, gleefully delighting in tricking the reader, several times, into what feels…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gorgeous, mesmerizing read with a stop-the-clock ending, that you may just find yourself dreaming about, the next time you hear a bird sing outside your window (your very own soul-stirring spark bird). Simon, our third person POV narrator is a thirty-year-old musician, who has never quite managed to…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Perhaps the strangest collection of short stories this reader has encountered, this is a hard book to categorize, but an easy book to love. Laugh-out-loud funny in places, often sardonic, absurd and always wildly inventive, these short stories contain some repeating characters and straddle situations, including those involving: inane…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A book that defies black-and-white categorization — filled with fantasy, folklore, magic and fairies, —but if “delightful” was a book genre, “Greenteeth” would be top of its class. Charming, humorous, and imaginative — this is the story of Jenny Greenteeth, who is not technically a “hag” but is a…