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Debbie Meldrum

Review: Fool’s Moon by Diane A.S. Stuckart

By Debbie Meldrum

November 13, 2018

Fool’s Moon by Diane A.S. Stuckart is the first book in the Tarot Cats Mystery series, where two tarot-savvy cats and their tenderhearted human outwit a cruel criminal in this animal-centric whodunit. Ruby Sparks in filling in for her extremely talented cousin at Botanica Santa Rosa, a metaphysical shop in Miami. This includes giving tarot…

Review: The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming, Edited by Stephen Jones

By Debbie Meldrum

November 10, 2018

The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming, edited by Stephen Jones, is the third volume in the new interconnected trilogy that reveals the origins of “The Lovecraft Squad”—a super-secret worldwide organization dedicated to battling the eldritch monstrosities given form in H. P. Lovecraft’s fevered imagination. The Lovecraft Squad is a secret branch of the FBI created to hold…

Virtual Sabotage by Julie Hyzy

Review: Virtual Sabotage by Julie Hyzy

By Debbie Meldrum

November 5, 2018

Virtual Sabotage by Julie Hyzy follows a virtual reality company whose implants allow consumers to experience exhilarating imagined adventures—all while remaining perfectly safe. Most of the time, that is.  Kenna Ward, a virtual reality envoy for a Virtu-Tech franchise, wakes up to a call for help she never expected. Charlie, her partner in life and…

Review: Hitting the Books by Jenn McKinlay

By Debbie Meldrum

September 10, 2018

Hitting the Books by Jenn McKinlay is the ninth book in the Library Lover’s Mystery series. Jenn McKinlay takes us back to Briar Creek in her latest offering in the Library Lover’s Mystery series. Lindsey Norris has moved in with Captain Mike “Sully” Sullivan. Things are going well-ish for the couple, with maybe a few…

Review: Day of the Dead by Nicci French

By Debbie Meldrum

July 23, 2018

Day of the Dead by Nicci French is the final book in the Frieda Klein series—a gripping cat-and-mouse thriller that pits one of the most fascinating characters in contemporary fiction against an enemy like none other.  Frieda Klein is missing. Well, not missing but off the grid. If her friends know where she is, they aren’t…

Book Review: Caught in Time by Julie McElwain

By Debbie Meldrum

June 28, 2018

Still stranded in 1815, FBI Agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret in Caught in Time—Julie McElwain’s third Kendra Donovan historical mystery.  What would you do if you were unexpectedly whisked backward in time to Regency England? What if you were an FBI agent who was chasing…

Review: A Blood Thing by James Hankins

By Debbie Meldrum

June 4, 2018

A Blood Thing by James Hankins is a suspenseful thriller that puts a family on the edge of ruin and explores how far siblings will go to protect each other. Back in the 1950s, television families were almost always depicted as close and loving. Oh, there might be the occasional sibling squabble, but one or…

Review: The Shadow Killer by Arnaldur Indridason

By Debbie Meldrum

June 1, 2018

The Shadow Killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new Flovent and Thorson thriller series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason. Set in Reykjavik, Iceland, during World War II, The Shadow Killer is the second book in the series, but it tells the story of the first case worked by the main characters, Flovent…

Review: Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

By Debbie Meldrum

May 9, 2018

A spellbinding, darkly twisted novel about desire and obsession as well as the complicated lines between truth and perception, Our Kind of Cruelty introduces Araminta Hall, a chilling new voice in psychological suspense. Communication in any relationship is a tricky thing. Mike and Verity—or “V,” as he calls her—know each other so well. They met in college…

Review: No Way Home by Annette Dashofy

By Debbie Meldrum

No Way Home by Annette Dashofy is the fifth book in the Zoe Chambers Mystery series. As Paramedic Zoe Chambers prepares to lead a trail ride from her stable through the woods, a horse being boarded there gallops back from the trail minus its rider. She leaves the other riders behind to find her friend and…

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