Showing posts with label hard copy I didn't keep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hard copy I didn't keep. Show all posts
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist by Dorothy Gilman

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Let's be honest, the Pollifax books are a product of their time. It's aging better than some books and definitely captures the tone ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

A Wedding in the Lowcountry by Preslaysa Williams

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Trevor and Avila were childhood friends and could have been something more... but weren't. No they're both back in Myrtle Beach. Tre...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Feint of Art by Hailey Lind

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Annie Kincaid knows fake paintings. She grew up with a forger and may or may not have dabbled herself. These days, she's just trying to ...
Friday, August 1, 2025

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

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Ms. Austen has always been popular and there have been a number of mysteries based around her books. This book takes every one of Austen...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Larceny and Old Lace by Tamar Myers

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This book is definitely of its time and did not age well. The characters feel like caricatures and I didn't connect with ay of them, I c...
Friday, March 7, 2025

How to Climb Mt. Blanc in a Skirt by Mick Conefrey

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I picked up this book based on a review from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books . The review came out in 2015 so I may have had more excitement had...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Wrecked in Yellowstone by Mike Stark

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As soon as Yellowstone was made a national park, there were people anxious to make money off of it. E.C. Waters is generally known as being ...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Lead Bigger by Anne Chow

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Was this book groundbreaking? Maybe not. Was it informative? Yes. Was it entertaining? Also yes.  Chow writes, as the title says, about lead...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

What You Are Looking For is in the Library Michiko Aoyama with Alison Watts (Translator)

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This book of short stories is nothing if not a love note to reading and to libraries. Each of the main characters has come up against an imp...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (Translator)

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Flipping back and forth between a year ago and the present, the book also switches from a third person (selectively omniscient) to first per...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Give 'em the Pickle by Robert E. Farrell

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This book is definitely from the 90s. The cheerfulness, the simplicity, it's very much a feel-good self-help kind of book. The overall m...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, editor H.R.F. Keating

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I got this in a blind date with a book bag and felt like it was worth reading. I probably wouldn't have picked it out myself but it was ...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Mrs. Brodie's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies by Shana Galen, Theresa Romain

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I can't remember why I put this on my wishlist in 2018 but I finally got this book this year. It was... fine. Not worth the wait though....
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Christmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

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I hadn't read a Hannah Swensen book in a long time but a friend told me that they had gone off the rails in sort of a fun way. So. I was...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief by Dorothy Gilman

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The book opens with Mrs Pollifax standing in the rain at a funeral. She's been asked to take pictures by her old friend Farrell. The sam...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Murder in an Irish Pub by Carlene O'Connor

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Siobhan O'Sullivan is working with the rest of the Garda to make sure the town stays safe while a major poker game is going on. There ar...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Florida Woman by Deb Rogers

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Jamie found herself in jail for... reasons. As a part of her release, she is wearing an ankle monitor and volunteering at Atlas. It's a ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The Odd Job by Charlotte MacLeod

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Another book in the series where we don't see much of Max since he is away on a trip to Argentina. Instead, Sarah is left at home to unc...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

A is for Audra by John Robert Allman, Peter Emmerich

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This is one of the books from NPR's Best Book  that intrigued me. And it's a delightful book though I think you need some Broadway k...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Divided in Death by J.D. Robb

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We've seen Roarke's secretary, Caro, in previous books. She's a savvy, competent woman who was skeptical of Eve but has grown to...