On Thursday, January 28th, Booking through Thursday asked: Jackie says, “I love books with complicated plots and unexpected endings. What is your favourite book with a fantastic twist at the end?” Do YOU like books with complicated plots and unexpected endings? What book with a surprise ending is your favorite? Or your least favorite? Just [...]

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale by Alice Kimberly Berkley, 235 pages Get it from Amazon >> In the fourth installment of the Haunted Bookshop mysteries, The Ghost and the Femme Fatale, Pen McClure and the ghost of Jack Shepherd are once again teamed up to solve a mystery, this time, a multiple murder centered [...]

On Teaser Tuesdays readers are asked to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between 7 and 12 lines. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way [...]

On Thursday, October 29th, Booking through Thursday asked: Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not [...]

Decaffeinated Corpse by Cleo Coyle Berkley, 288 pages Get it from Amazon >> Let’s face it, the recipes in the backs of Cleo Coyle’s coffeehouse mysteries are not exactly keys to quick trim weight loss, but the reality is, as much fun as the recipes are (and I’ve actually tried some of them) it’s the [...]

The Ghost and the Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly Berkley, 272 Pages Get it from Amazon >> Reading about dead debutante’s is not exactly the way to lose weight fast. I mean, skinny rich girls, even when they’re corpses, are hardly good role models. Fortunately, I don’t read Alice Kimberly’s haunted bookshop novels for fitness [...]

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Harper, 321 pages Get it from Amazon >> I have such a backlog of books to review that there are likely to be endless days of me sitting up late writing little blurbs until the dark circles under my eyes are permanent. Well, I’ve always [...]

I confess that my first introduction to the wonderful fictional detective Spenser was not via Robert B. Parker’s books, but through the television show, Spenser: For Hire. which I watched when I was – well, I’m not sure how young I was – definitely before I ever even considered purchasing anti wrinkle eye cream. By [...]

It’s been so cold lately – and by cold I mean “there’s a sheet of ICE across my swimming pool” – that those advertisements for weekend getaways to cancun mexico are looking awfully tempting. Of course, I still feel kind of, well, craptastic, and I can’t afford a trip right now, anyway, so instead I’ve [...]