BETRAYAL AT THE BUFFALO RANCH Sara Sue Hoklotubbe’s Betrayal at the Buffalo Ranch is the first Sadie Walela novel I have read, but it turns
THE HIDING PLACE I could review C. J. Tudor’s novel, The Hiding Place, in just four words. Rosemary’s Baby on Steroids. Except that wouldn’t be
TAHOE DEEP I almost missed Todd Borg’s latest Owen McKenna Tahoe mystery Tahoe Deep before summer’s end, but it is still pretty hot up here
THE FERAL DETECTIVE When I read Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 riff on dark detective fiction, Motherless Brooklyn, I was not amused. In fact, I found the
THE PARIS DIVERSION In the book world, the espionage thriller is the milieu of male readers. In other words, Chris Pavone’s latest, The Paris Diversion,
THE FRENCH GIRL Lexie Elliott’s The French Girl is the best mystery I’ve read in a while. It’s one of those books that keep you
A WILLING VICTIM This time Sunny handed me the fourth book in a detective series, so I felt like I was starting in the middle.
THE OTHER WOMAN Emblazoned across the cover of Sandie Jones’ novel, The Other Woman, are words foreshadowing its amazing plot: “fiendishly clever with a twist
THE CURRENT I just finished reading another “Bookin’ with Sunny” novel that I couldn’t put down. Tim Johnston’s The Current, a mystery thriller that careens
ONCE UPON A RIVER When I turned the final page of Diane Setterfield’s novel, Once Upon a River, I closed the book and sat staring
HOUSE. TREE. PERSON. When one is recovering from surgery having books around the scatter is a terrific way to while away the hours between meds.
MCPHERSON THREE: MEASURE OF BRIMSTONE; QUIET NEIGHBORS; SCOT FREE Hoping to introduce myself to an unfamiliar mystery writer, I read three Catriona McPherson novels—A Deadly
TAHOE SKYDROP If you are planning a trip to Lake Tahoe this summer, don’t forget to bring along Todd Borg’s Tahoe Skydrop the latest book
LIES SHE TOLD As I read Cate Holahan’s Lies She Told, I felt like my brain was on a swivel. Two stories ricochet back and
ZORA & ME, THE CURSED GROUND, the power of childhood memories to raise a forgotten writer back to a deserved literary recognition. When Candlewick Press
Celine Each of Peter Heller’s three novels sends dissimilar characters in wildly diverse directions. Yet there is a thematic consistency between The Dog Stars and
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