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Doreen Sheridan

Book Review: Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me by Ace Atkins

By Doreen Sheridan

January 14, 2021

Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me by Ace Atkins is the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, where Spenser and his young protégé, Mattie Sullivan, take on billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients. As a child of the ‘80s, my main exposure to…

Cooking the Books: A Catered Book Club Murder by Isis Crawford

By Doreen Sheridan

January 13, 2021

The 16th installment of the Mystery with Recipes series finds the intrepid Simmons sisters wondering why a regular customer has forgotten to pick up her long-standing monthly order. Margo Hemsley is the kind of person who isn’t just punctual, she’s habitually early. Every month for the past five years, she’s ordered the same few items…

Book Review: Bait and Witch by Angela M. Sanders

By Doreen Sheridan

January 12, 2021

Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilities—and a killer on the loose—she’s leapt out of the frying pan and into a cauldron of trouble… Josie Way thought she had found her dream job working for the Library of Congress until an overheard conversation at work plunges…

Book Review: The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg

By Doreen Sheridan

January 11, 2021

The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg is the second book in the Korner and Werner series, set in Denmark, where Detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital. Killers lurk within Denmark’s health system in this second…

Book Review: City Of Schemes by Victoria Thompson

By Doreen Sheridan

January 7, 2021

The fourth book in Victoria Thompson’s excellent Counterfeit Lady series is an utter page-turner! There isn’t a single wasted moment in this terrific, twisting tale as our intrepid heroine Elizabeth Miles seeks to not only preserve herself and her fiance Gideon Bates from a threat from their past, but also to prevent a con from…

Cooking the Books: Fishing for Trouble by Elizabeth Logan

By Doreen Sheridan

January 6, 2021

It’s just another busy Alaskan tourist season day at Charlie Cooke’s Bear Claw Diner until one of her guests abruptly starts choking at his table before falling over unconscious. Paramedics whisk young Ethan Johnson away to the nearest medical center, and a concerned Charlie drives there with his lunch date, Zoe, since only family members…

Book Review: To Fetch a Felon by Jennifer Hawkins

By Doreen Sheridan

January 5, 2021

Emma Reed and her beloved Corgi move from London to Cornwall with the dream of opening a tea shop—but first, they’ll have to collar a criminal in the first book in a cozy new series. After two decades working in The City, Emma Reed has decided to quit high finance and move to the small…

Book Review: Olive Bright, Pigeoneer by Stephanie Graves

By Doreen Sheridan

January 4, 2021

Olive Bright, Pigeoneer by Stephanie Graves is the first in a new, charming historical mystery series set in a charming British village during World War II, where a spirited young pigeon fancier finds herself at the heart of a baffling murder. Olive Bright is worried—and for good reason. Her best friend, George, has been called…

Cooking the Books: Murder at Veronica’s Diner by J.D. Griffo

By Doreen Sheridan

December 23, 2020

The four intergenerational members of the Ferrara Family Detective Agency—as their unofficial sleuthing club is known—are enjoying a nice breakfast at local institution Veronica’s Diner when their waitress, Teri Jo, approaches their table. Nothing out of the ordinary, despite Teri Jo having asked them earlier to deliver a package she didn’t have time to send…

Cooking the Books: Have Yourself a Fudgy Little Christmas by Nancy Coco

By Doreen Sheridan

December 16, 2020

At the end of the previous book in the series, Fudge Bites, our heroine, fudge-maker Allie McMurphy, decided to turn down her ex-boyfriend Trent Jessop’s offer to winter in Chicago with full use of his commercial kitchen in favor of finally becoming an official year-round resident of Michigan’s Mackinac Island. She’s also planning on reopening…

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