Month: February 2020
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YOU ARE NOT ALONE by GREER HENDRICKS & SARAH PEKKANEN
“Some people contend there are two primal fears. The first and most basic is the end of our existence. The second is isolation; we all have a deep need to belong to something greater than ourselves.” Shay Miller is in her 30’s and has just been downsized. She’s been roommates with her best friend Sean […]
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GET OUT THE LYSOL, EVERYBODY IS SICK
So I have the flu. There are only three symptoms, they (Dr.) say, cough, fever and sore throat. Unlike the lottery, my chances were pretty darn good after entertaining people with germy children. I’m not even checking the mail! OU Boy brought home masks that look like something out of an Avengers movie and […]
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BLACK WIDOW by Leslie Gray Streeter
Leslie Gray Streeter offers us a portrait of widowhood we haven’t seen before, one that “will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page” (James Patterson). Palm Beach Post columnist Leslie Gray Streeter entered her late thirties with her husband Scott, moving in together and starting the process of adopting a baby. Yes, […]
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Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Happy Mardi Gras! My favorite time of the year. Parades, balls, King Cake, beads, everything purple, green and gold. Today is a frenzy of people dragging their huge boxes of beads, cups and other throws onto a float with 40 other people dressed just like you. And one 5-gallon bucket in the closet for all […]
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Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen
Two young women, unlikely friends, both find themselves in Atlantic City. Summer in AC used to be a time of packed boardwalks, casinos, and tourists. But no more. The only people out on the marshland are two dead women. Jane Does. Laid out behind a seedy hotel. Clara, who is just a teenager, lives with […]
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE BY PETER GUTTRIDGE
When a body is found in a lake belonging to Nimue Grace, a reclusive actress, DI Sarah Gilchrist and her partner DS Bellamy Heap are on the case. The dead man, Major Rabbitt was not well-liked by any stretch of the imagination. He was a pig. His ex hated him, his business rivals hated him. […]
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REVOLVER ROAD by CHRISTI DAUGHERTY (A HarperMcClain Mystery)
Crime reporter Harper McClain is back on the beat when a troubled musician vanishes in Christi Daugherty’s Revolver Road. We’re back in Savannah with crime reporter Harper McClain. After being told to RUN!, she is hiding out on Tybee Island while she figures out who wants her dead. In between working at the newspaper and trying […]
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PIES BEFORE GUYS by KIRSTEN WEISS
A Pie Town Mystery #4 ( With Recipes) Val Harris, the owner of Pie Town, is not quite sure a poetry slam in a bakery is a thing. But Abril is excited enough for both of them. Does that have something to do with her professor, Michael Starke, a poet or is she a little […]
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The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
The Second in the Molly Southbourne Books This is a book that just begged me to pick it off the library shelf. I read the back and ordered the first one on the spot. The first book, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, you have to read. I went into the second one with very little […]
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A TEARRIFIC WEEKEND!
High Tea at Inspirations Tea Room in Edmond. Saturday I had reservations to take OU Boy out for a proper tea. We hit up the gym first thing and ran enough to eat a few sweeties. I went to the market and then got all dressed up and headed to 4 o’clock tea. OU Boy […]