Wall Street whiz Lindsey Bakewell has abandoned her entire life in New York City following the discovery of her now-ex-fiancé, hot-shot restaurateur Jeffrey Plank, cheating on her with his pastry chef, Mia Long. In a moment of drunken self-pity, she decides to buy a dilapidated lighthouse in a Michigan town she has fond memories of…
Ocean Prey by John Sandford is the 31st book in the Prey series, where fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case. The first official Lucas Davenport/Virgil Flowers crossover novel finds our two heroes only too happy to escape the Minnesota cold for the Florida heat—even if it is…
Mia Carina is throwing herself into making a success of her family’s Belle View Banquet Manor, ostensibly because she wants to make sure her Mafia-connected dad stays on the straight and narrow. Annoyingly, certain friends and family members are starting to drop hints that she’s using work to avoid her lack of personal life. Ignoring…
The latest in Joanne Fluke’s long-running Hannah Swensen Mystery series finds Mayor Richard Bascomb himself murdered—and Hannah’s younger sister, Andrea, the prime suspect in his slaying. Mayor Bascomb had been pretty irritable in the days before his death. When Sheriff Bill Todd pulls the mayor’s nephew over for driving under the influence, the mayor gets…
I first wrote this review to coincide with By Way Of Sorrow’s original publication during Pride Month in 2020, but the pandemic pushed it back almost a year. I’m so pleased to be able to talk about this book now as part of society’s ongoing LGBTQIA+ discourse. A timely #OwnVoices legal thriller, it stars Erin…
Samantha Barnes’s life has just turned upside down. From being the head chef of a successful restaurant in New York City working alongside her bad-boy chef husband, Stefan, she’s suddenly unemployed and divorced after a volatile, violent argument the two have outside their apartment one evening is recorded by a passerby. The video hits the…
On Harrow Hill by John Verdon is the seventh book in the Dave Gurney series, where an old colleague comes to the retired NYPD detective for help solving the mysterious death of his town’s most prominent resident, and Gurney must use all of his analytical skills to hunt a murderer who just might be killing…
Terra is a survivor. After the grisly accident that claims the lives of her parents, it takes a lot of work for her to get her life back on track. A stint in a psychiatric hospital to help her cope with her grief is followed by the seemingly compassionate decision to keep her back a…
I honestly don’t know how Barbara Ross does it, writing such a terrific cozy culinary mystery series filled with consistently intriguing puzzles and fresh social dynamics for our heroine, Julia Snowden, to navigate as she solves crimes while trying to run her businesses. Tourist season in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, is about to get underway, so…
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley is a debut novel and groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. I ugly cried my way through the ending of this book at 5:30 a.m. after reading all night, which I hope is enough of a recommendation for readers who…
