The time has come! Release day for On the Slab Pie, book #18 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series. Are you ready for a super twisty mystery? This one should satisfy your craving for a sweet treat! Erin and Vic are working for a slab pie for Statehood Day, but there are a few distractions…
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Fallen, by Linda Castillo is book #13 in the Kate Burkholder series. I always enjoy these mysteries with a little taste of Amish country, with tidbits about their culture and phrases of Pennsylvania Dutch sprinkled throughout. Kate does a good job of tracking down the killers with her special combination of brains, compassion, and respect for the community that she chose not to be a part of, instead pursuing a career in law enforcement. Her significant other, John Tomasetti work well together. I enjoy a book where the woman and the man are on equal footing and don’t have a lot of conflict or competitiveness over cases. (Though, of course, I also enjoy books where there is some conflict between the couple as well. Since all couples have conflict of some kind.)
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The writing is excellent, the plot is nice and twisty and the the characters and situations are believable. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to seeing where she takes these new characters.
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National Novel Writing month comes only once a year, but you can always join Camp Nano in April and July too. If November is not good for you (the month before Christmas… some people are rather busy) or if you want to write several books during the year, then it’s a great way to connect with other likeminded writers and join in the camaraderie.
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hiring practices aside, Charles Lenox is an interesting protagonist, finding his way into a new profession and figuring out the ropes and new investigative techniques from various different circumstances, books, and people. In this case, he is searching for the Duke’s stolen painting, which is the key to a much larger mystery. Lenox has to unravel the various half-truths and hints to figure out what is really going on, since the Duke doesn’t actually seem interested in recovering the paining.
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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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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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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.
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.
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.
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