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How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An absolutely charming regency romp, hilarious in parts and thoughtful in others, that totally captured the heart of this reader. In an early nineteenth-century era when women are chattel (beholden to their male counterparts), when Lydia Hayworth, the low-born daughter of a now-wealthy gentleman, finds herself β€œaccidentally” betrothed to…

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Finding Grace

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A really interesting premise that comes out of nowhere, messes with a readers brain, and leaves one more than a little awed at the creative mind that inspired it. With a writing style that reminds this reader of Joanne Trollope, this story is a blend of family and relationship…

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The Safari

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« An engrossing and immersive trip to an exotic South African safari-compound, β€” Leopard Sands β€” second-home to an uber-wealthy family from Florida, that is teeming with things that creep, stalk, and kill (and I don’t mean the wildlife). Family matriarch Odelia Bach is in her sixties, undoubtedly a narcissist,…

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Life, and Death, and Giants

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A heart-tugging and thoughtful look at love, loneliness, and searching β€” for answers to the secrets that all humans yearn to untangle β€” What makes a life β€œgood”, and what, in the end, is it all β€œfor”? Told in the voices of multiple characters, between these pages we will…

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Shatter Creek

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The second in the superb DS Casey Wray series, this taut and complex story stretches tight, pulling the reader close into as absorbing a read as upper-echelon crime fiction can get. Following on the heels of a major police department shakeup (read the first book for details!) Detective Sergeant…

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The Solitary Friend

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Book #23 in a mystery series featuring Joanne Kilbourn, this book came to this reader with history attached. Initially a Canadian series I loved, based in Saskatchewan, and featuring a wonderfully-accessible female professor,β€” a character authored so well, and decades before strongly centered, plain-spoken, independent female leads were a…

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Dogs and Monsters

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 β€œThere was no longer any solid foundation to the world. It was all just stories.β€œ A beautifully rendered, challenging and often dark collection of eight short stories that somehow manage to balance the many avenues of man’s terrible brutality with the boundless tenderness of love β€” be it that…

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The Quiet

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Welcome to The Quiet- a peek into a strange and darkly ominous world, part Orwellian but also, in some small way, strangely hopeful, as Science and Nature battle a fantastical oddity, with humanity’s future lying in the balance. Dr Hannah Newnham/Williams, our first person POV narrator, is a scientist…

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Forget Me Not

🌟🌟🌟🌟 β€œThe silence around me so heavy and charged it feels like a physical thing, thick and meaty” A darkly Southern thriller, fronted by an impulsive and somewhat unpredictable heroine, with more than a few surprises up its sleeve. Claire Campbell, a not-very-successful reporter, is thirty-three years old, and is…

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Skin and Bones

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 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…

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