Books for my Birthday
It’s that time of year again! My birthday, Canada Day, Independence Day, and Q-Tip’s birthday! This is definitely the time to pick up some great deals for your To Be Read queue!
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Rushin’ Death
When Kenzie arrives at her mother’s house the cold reception is nothing compared to the anomalies she and Dr Wiltshire uncover at the morgue during the holiday rush.
Books for National Indigenous Peoples Day
June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day. A day to explore the history and cultures of the indigenous peoples of this land, to join in celebrations and memorials.
And what observance would be complete without books? there is more and more call to write books with diverse characters from all walks of life. Different races and backgrounds, disabilities, neurodiversity, and more.
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Intrigued by The Stranger in the Mirror
The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine is not the only suspense book about amnesia that I have read lately. It’s not that long since I was reading You Will Remember Me. Amnesia is not an uncommon trope in suspense fiction, even though forgetting your entire past is pretty rare in real life. Like serial killers, it happens a lot more in fiction than in real life.
The Stranger in the Mirror does include some unique twists, and I still am not sure where it is going. Addison apparently has a pretty scary past, but we haven’t been filled in yet on what happened and how she lost her memory. As we enter Addison’s life, she is preparing to marry Gabriel, who she has known for six months (and yes, the author actually does cover how Addition came to have identification that allows her to work and to get married, two things that are impossible to do if you can’t prove who you are.)
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Cut Out Cookie and other new releases
Have you been eagerly waiting to find out what would happen when Crazy Theresa and Willie met up again? After Theresa’s appearance in A Fateful Plateful, things couldn’t stay the same!
Now, Cut Out Cookie is live and you can return to Bald Eagle Falls with Erin and Vic to see what is in store for them now. Will they have a quiet Easter making marshmallow eggs and cut-out cookies in cute rabbit and lamb shapes? Or are things about to change again?
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What it is like to be A Stranger at Home
June is National Indigenous History Month and June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, so my reading app gave me some suggestions of books by Indigenous authors. I picked up a short book, A Stranger at Home, by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, about Margaret-Olemaun’s experience returning home from residential school. This is the sequel to Fatty Legs, her experience at residential school, but I have not read that one yet. I’ll probably pick it up later on this month.
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Stories with Strong Fathers
Time for a Father’s Day blog post! It can be hard sometime to find representations of good fathers in literature. We have absent fathers, abusive fathers, and fathers who just drift in and out of the background. I confess that many of my characters have fathers who fall into these categories. They tend to come from traumatic backgrounds and/or families with secrets. But there are a few important exceptions.
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Looking for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder?
I’m not sure of the title of this book, since it really doesn’t describe what the book is about or the tone of the piece. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson features a young woman investigating the murder of another girl in her town five years earlier, becoming friends with the brother of the boy accused of murdering her and digging down deep to find the truth behind what really happened to Andie Bell.
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De Luto
La vida del investigador privado Zachary Goldman no es todo rosas, pero intenta dejar atrás su propia vida destrozada para investigar la muerte de Declan Bond, de cinco años.
A Fateful Plateful just $0.99 and other great deals
A Fateful Plateful is on for just $0.99 for a limited time. Grab it while you can! A Fateful Plateful is #16 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series. See what Erin and Vic are up to. Vic’s Pa is in dire condition, and there are questions to be answered. You can read A Fateful Plateful as a standalone mystery, or together with the series.
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