Showing posts with label four stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label four stars. Show all posts
Thursday, January 9, 2025

'Til Heist Do Us Part To Have and to Heist #2 Sara Desai

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The group is back together again. Like many heist movies, there are some additions to the crew. And, like many heist movies, the additions a...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

HBR Daily Leader by Harvard Business Review

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I read this as an ebook and think it would be better as a hard copy; something to keep by your bed or another easy place to open up and read...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Murder at King’s Crossing by Andrea Penrose

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Sheffield and Cordelia are finally married. But the day is marred when news of a dead man carrying an invitation to their wedding arrives. A...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala

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It's Corn Festival time in Shady Palms. They have a small-ish town so they have teamed up with nearby Shelbyville. Of course, Brew-ha ha...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

A Kiss in the Dark by Suzanne Enoch

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Sam has been asked to ask for some last minute security upgrades at a museum in New York so she heads up to help out. When she gets up there...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Third Shift Society Volume Two

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Ellie and Ichabod return in an continuation of their adventures from the first book. The supernatural detectives are still working on some r...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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At the beginning of the book, Evie is dead. Apparently. At least, The Villain sure thinks she is. And he's devastated. But, as the blurb...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Passions in Death by J.D. Robb

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A group of women are out on the town to celebrate a wedding. Before the night is over, one of the brides-to-be is dead in the Down and Dirty...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Rockin' Around the Chickadee by Donna Andrews

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Meg's sister-in-law Delaney is pregnant and about to burst. While she's on bedrest, the rest of the family is helping out by feeding...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Wrong Side of Forty by Jana DeLeon

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Marina Trahan might never have known that her husband was cheating if her last hair appointment of the day hadn't gotten canceled. Not o...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

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I heard about this one of my podcasts. For the first fifty pages, I wondered why I kept reading it. Then, I was hooked. What do they do wit...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Murder at the Merton Library by Andrea Penrose

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Wrex receives a note from a friend of his brother's, asking him for help. But when Wrex arrives at the college, the friend is already de...
Monday, September 16, 2024

The Examiner A Novel by Janice Hallett

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Hallett writes mysteries in a way that no one else does. She has tight stories that leave clues the whole way through but you never can quit...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen

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This book is Hiaasen at his finest. We have the story of a stripper with a heart of gold. She was formerly a secretary for the FBI but her n...
Monday, September 2, 2024

The Lost Art of Connecting by Susan McPherson, Jackie Ashton

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People today are doinga connections all wrong according to McPherson. This book was written in the midst of COVID and, of course, people wer...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

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Opening lines can make or break a book and this one has a doozy: You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed? This is a line that will c...
Friday, August 16, 2024

What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

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I enjoyed this book and think I will look for it in a hard copy.  Goldsmith talks not only about the things that you SHOULD do but also the ...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer

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I really enjoy "How Did This Get Made" but wasn't sure I wanted to read about someone else's trauma. I did like that Paul ...
Monday, August 5, 2024

What the Vicar Saw by Benedict Brown

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This book opens with a funeral and a dead body. To be clear, the funeral was for one man (a despicable baron whom no one in the small town o...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

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This is one of my favorite Poirot stories. Partly because of the story itself and partly because I love the David Suchet episode of this sto...