Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
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 16, 2024

Blue Christmas Bones by Carolyn Haines

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Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are in Tupelo. While there, a fabulous replica of Elvis's belt is stolen and she and Tinkie are call...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Lights, Camera, Bones by Carolyn Haines

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There's a movie production in town and everyone is atwitter. Famous actor Marlon Brandon is doing a film about his family who have been ...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! by Donna Andrews

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A main reason I love these books is that Meg Langslow is just so darn pragmatic. Is she an amateur detective? Yes, she is. Does she share al...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala

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Auntie Aprils niece, Divina, has come to visit but there is something strange going on. Divina is close lipped about parts of her life and A...
Friday, August 4, 2023

The Christmas Season by Ally Sinclair

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I didn't see anywhere that this was the second book in a series. It may not be but it sure reads like one and some of the stories (Emma ...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Birder, She Wrote by Donna Andrews

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Meg is looking forward to a quiet afternoon in her hammock. Of course, that's not going to happen, she's got too much going on. Some...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Tell-Tale Bones by Carolyn Haines

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Seven years ago, Lydia Maxwell disappeared. Married to the abusive Tope, she had a good reason. Now Tope claims to have proof that Lydia is ...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Dashing Through the Snowbirds by Donna Andrews

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This reminds me of an early Langslow in the best of ways. Large ensemble of characters we know and love (though Michael and the boys weren...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Bones of Holly by Carolyn Haines

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Sarah Booth is Bay St. Louis, MS getting ready for the holiday season. While shopping, they come across Janet Malone and Sandra O'Day th...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala

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Ronnie, the prodigal son of Lila Macapagal's family is back. No one is quite sure whether his business is legitimate but they are all te...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict

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There is a saying that you can't go home and Lily Armitage doesn't want to. Endgame House holds bad memories for her; memories she...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Blitzen's Fated Mate by R.E. Butler

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I had heard about this book on the Smart Bitches Trashy books  website. They gave it an F+ for just pure nutsiness and I loved the review.  ...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Christmas on Peach Tree Lane by Jules Bennett

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 If you don't mind your heroines hyper-perky, this is going to be an okay book. Violet Calhoun is an event planner (with some sort of st...
Friday, November 13, 2020

The Mistletoe Trap by Cindi Madsen

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I love a friends-to-lovers story. It is my catnip. And this one starts off really, really well. You've got socially awkward pathologist ...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Finding Christmas by Karen Schaler

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Emmie loves Christmas. She LOVES Christmas. And she is sure that her boyfriend will love Christmas as well-especially when she puts together...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

I'll Be Home for Christmas by Karen Clarke

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This is the second book I've read where a woman runs away to France in order to get away from a bad romance. In this case, Nina Bailey...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Rituals to Observe: Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction -- anthology

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The title pretty much explains what you're going to be reading in this book, short stories that won the Flannery O'Connor Award. Tha...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Eye Candy -- anthology

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Generally, I quite enjoy anthologies. Especially ones like this one  that take a group of new-to-me  authors that might help me expand my re...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Home with My Sisters by Mary Carter

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There were times when the writing was rough and the story didn't quite hold together in all the places, but this was overall a book that...