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 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. ...

Leo es un joven con problemas, permanentemente al borde del desastre. Luchando con sus propios problemas emocionales, Leo conoce a Elizabeth, madre soltera con una bebé recién nacida y un pasado inquietante que no termina de asumir ...

I am currently reading You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon. Who doesn't love an amnesia thriller and the excitement of unwrapping one layer after another of the patient's story to find out who they really are and how they came to be there. It goes without saying that there are secrets, things that maybe even the sufferer does not want to remember. McKinnon does a masterful job of setting things up from the moment "Brad" wakes up on the beach with no memory of how he got there—or who he is. I am looking forward to finding out just what happened to bring him to that point. ...

May is National Share a Story month! There are so many great stories out there. When I was deciding what to do for my blog, I told the authors I was talking to that this year's theme was Myths, Magic, and Mayhem. I just realized today... that was the 2021 theme. Oops. But I'm going to go with it! So here is a flashback to 2021. ...

There’s a new witch in town.

And a powerful one at that. Reg doesn’t know what Verity is doing in Black Sands, but she is getting too close to Corvin Hunter for her safety.

Reg was just trying to help. To be a good neighbor.

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This week I am reading Hostage, a novel by Clare Mackintosh. Lots of interesting characters with different backgrounds and secrets, a daughter on the ground in peril and hundreds of people up in the sky at the mercy of a hostage taker. The tension is building... it will be interesting to see how the main character manages to take control of the situation and—presumably—land the airplane! ...

It's time to take you back to Bald Eagle Falls, as Erin and Vic and their friends are pulled into another mystery! A Fateful Plateful is book #16 in the Auntie Clem's Bakery series. It can be read as a stand alone mystery or together with the rest of the series. ...

I have just recently begun Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight. You've heard this story before... friends who share a horrible secret gather for a weekend reunion. Trapped by a storm, something happens, and one of them is dead. It is up to the police/detective to sort out all of the misleading clues and lies, probe and tease out the mass of secrets covering secrets to get to the heart of the matter. ...

Today, I wanted to cook something up for some of my characters. What would their favourite gluten-free meals or treats be? So let's dive in! ...

I am currently reading State of Terror, by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny. As you can well imagine, this power team draws on Clinton's political knowledge and Penny's experience in writing crime fiction to put together a political thriller that is both detail-rich and keep the plot moving forward. ...

I have just finished reading Monica Ferris's Darned if You Do. I don't think I have read any other books in the Needlcraft Mystery series. This is #17, but there was enough context and backstory that I was comfortable with the characters and small town and didn't feel lost. This mystery had an interesting premise—a hoarder who was murdered before his sister could finish inventorying all of the junk and valuables he'd been forced to leave in his house when he was taken to the hospital after a tree came crashing through his roof. I was sorry to see the neurodivergent character killed. I think he would have made an interesting repeat character in future mysteries in the series. ...

A self-professed con artist practicing as a contact to the dead, a drop dead gorgeous warlock , and a psychic cat—what could go wrong? Give yourself a treat and buy three books in the Reg Rawlins, Psychic Detective series for one low price. This set includes: ...

Well, Mother's Day is coming up next week and I thought I would showcase some fiction with good/strong mothers.

So many of my characters are foster children and street kids that I don't have a lot of wonderful mothers in my stories. But I do have a few! And truth be told, sometimes the best mothers are fathers or grandfathers!

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Right now I am reading Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica. I have read other books by Kubica, so I knew it would be a good read. I think she only writes stand alones, which straddle the edge of suspense/domestic thriller. Lots of intriguing hints as the plot unfolds, good character development and narration. ...

April 23 is World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book. It is a day to celebrate reading, publishing, and copyright. The day was first conceived of in 1922. April 23 was selected as the death date of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and William Shakespeare. ...

If Reg was going to kill Corvin, she would have done so before now.

As much as she might dislike the warlock who has been a thorn in her side ever since moving to Black Sands, she has never tried to kill him.

Well, except maybe that one time.

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I am currently reading The Steel Kiss, a Lincoln Rhyme book by Jeffery Deaver. I have read one or two books in this series before, and they are very satisfying police procedural mysteries. I was irritated with Rhyme at one point in this book for failing to see a legal point, but he eventually got there after a number of false turns ...

I've been asked several times when the next books in the Parks Pat Mysteries series were coming out, and that day is today!

I have not just one, but three new stories in this police procedural series.

Rejoin Detective Margie "Parks Pat" Patenaude as she solves homicides in Calgary parks.

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