From the moment this book’s point of view switches over to that of the pony at the heart of the dual narrative, I was deeply in love: I am a pony. But not just any pony. I am a pony who is bent on revenge. I am the Iago of ponies, a furry Fury. I…
The advertisements are hard to miss. If you live in North Jersey, in Paterson or quite a few other cities, you are familiar with the phrase CALL JIM! It’s on billboards, benches, bus stops, and everywhere else that can contain an ad. The all-caps bold type, as well as the exclamation point, unsubtly convey the…
In an assuming shopfront down a Kyoto back alley lies not only a very special restaurant, but an attached detective agency that specializes in recreating meals from their clienteles’ memories. The Kamogawa Diner itself is a marvel, a place of seemingly simple, inexpensive food that still manages to knock the socks off of all of…
Readers will be hard-pressed to find a more original and laugh-out-loud debut mystery than The Expectant Detectives. The detectives are “a group of soon-to-be moms” who meet at a prenatal class. Alice and her partner Joe pick up sticks and move from London to Penton, a bucolic (and fictional) Cotswold “market town.” There’s some urgency—Alice…
Small town librarian Josie Way is thrilled her younger sister Jean is coming to visit her in her newly adopted home of Wilfred, Oregon. But Jean isn’t there just to catch up with family. Wilfred’s recently opened retreat center has booked a life-coaching seminar she’s incredibly enthusiastic about attending, too. The seminar promises to teach…
When Lucy Stone’s eldest daughter Elizabeth announces she’s engaged, Lucy is both thrilled and a little wary. The very private Elizabeth has built a successful life for herself in the Parisian hotel industry, and doesn’t have much time for gossiping with her family back in the United States. Thus, none of the Stones have even…
Bookseller Delaney Nichols is very much enjoying life as a newlywed in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her handsome husband Tom owns a pub just across the way from where she assists at The Cracked Spine, a local institution headed by the rich and eccentric Edwin MacAlister. Delaney is happy to work on cataloging the many treasures Edwin…
This fourth installment of the K-Team series finds our private investigators continuing their work looking into cold cases for the Paterson Police Department. Former police officer Corey Douglas—whose retired K9 unit dog Simon Garfunkel gives the squad its name—has his eye on one case in particular. The human members of his team all agree that…
In Andy Carpenter’s household, the Christmas season lasts from Halloween to February due to the insistence of his Yuletide-loving wife, Laurie. While Andy grumbles, he mostly doesn’t mind. In fact, he’s downright feeling the holiday spirit as December rolls around and one of the employees at his dog rescue, the Tara Foundation, asks for his…
April Claus is very excited to be able to bring her best friend from Oregon, Claire Emerson, up to Santaland to see what her new hometown has to offer in the lead up to Christmas, their most important holiday. Claire originally figured that April had just relocated to a town that really, really cares about…
