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Familial Tension and Devotion Turn Dark in Hanukkah Noir Collection

Holidays can be stressful as Eight Very Bad Nights aptly demonstrates. Tensions mount faster than usual along with growing to-do lists and increasing demands on time and money. Tempers may fray until they snap! If gentle reader, you expected tales of pleasant festivities and happy times here, you’ve opened the…

Linda HitchcockNovember 21, 2024

Crossroads of Empire by Michael J Cooper

Fiction Recommended

Wartime Fiction Blends History with Adventure and Mystery

Set against the backdrop of the early 20th century and World War I, Crossroads of Empire captures the essence of a world in turmoil. Author Michael Cooper’s diligence and attention to detail bring this period to life, from the smoky trenches of the Western Front to the political maneuvering in…

LK GriffieNovember 19, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Investigative Novel Questions Mysterious Death of da Vinci

“What the heck is going on in Leonardo’s message!” In a masterful work with particular appeal for amateur sleuths, historians and art aficionados, author D. Allen Henry has crafted a thoughtful novel, Killing Genius: The Mysterious Last Days of Leonardo da Vinci, based around the premise that Leonardo da Vinci’s…

Jim AlkonNovember 19, 2024

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Fiction Thrillers

Latest Mysteries from Acclaimed “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” Author

It might be unusual to review two novels by the same author at the same time but The Great Hippopotamus Hotel and The Conditions of Unconditional Love were published within the short span of four months — with both read within five days and too good not to laud together.…

Linda HitchcockNovember 18, 2024

Thrillers

Pledge to Protect Orphaned Teen Brings Danger to the 6:20 Man in New Baldacci

Trouble always seems to find Travis Devine, former Army Captain and Wall Street trader, and now a member of a stealth sub-group of Homeland Security. In To Die For (Grand Central Publishing) the third installment of David Baldacci’s 6:20 Man series, trouble comes in a small package. Devine is assigned…

Jodé MillmanNovember 12, 2024

Fiction

New Elly Griffiths Collection Filled With Bite-Sized Spooky Holiday Stories

Trick or treat, who needs candy or sugary popcorn balls when Elly Griffiths’ latest book The Man in Black: And Other Stories is now available in the USA? It is well suited for holiday gift-giving as several stories are comprised of somewhat spooky Christmas tales. This award-winning, best-selling author has…

Linda HitchcockNovember 4, 2024

Thrillers

In New Louise Penny, Gamache Must Foil an Eco-Terrorisim Plot With International Implications

Each time bestselling author Louise Penny releases a new installment in her Three Pines Series, it is an exciting event. Readers cannot wait to be wrapped into the warmth of the cozy, hidden village with its unique residents guided by Armand Gamache, Chief Inspector of the Sûreté du Québec. Over…

Jodé MillmanOctober 28, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Expert Tapestry of Jewish History and Gripping Mystery

In 2005, American journalist and single father Judah Loeb returns to Israel to investigate the decades-old death of an academic mentor and Holocaust survivor, only to discover that the past is indeed a foreign land in Philip Graubart’s entrancing Here There Is No Why. Ten years after the suicide of…

Peggy KurkowskiOctober 22, 2024

Fiction

Time is Ticking for Agatha Raisin to Solve Another Murder in “Killing Time”

In MC Beaton’s Killing Time (Minotaur), Agatha Raisin again proves that no one can outsmart her; not her friend and former lover Sir Charles Fraithe, her assistant Toni, her BFF Roy Silver, or the many criminals trying to best her in her 35th mystery. When, at a friendly dinner, Sir…

Jodé MillmanOctober 11, 2024

Recommended

Twisted Secrets and Deadly Deceptions That’ll Keep Readers Guessing

This is the third book by Bonnie Traymore that I have reviewed, and they just keep getting better. There’s no question in my mind that Traymore should be getting recognized as a prominent new voice in mystery fiction. Like her earlier books, The Bluff is a deliciously twisted tale about…

R.G. BelskyOctober 7, 2024

Thrillers

Fans of “Rebecca” Will Love This Mysterious Gothic Horror

B.R. Myers won the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2023 for her best-selling novel A Dreadful Splendor, reviewed here in 2022. She has written several School Library Journal selected “top picks” YA novels. Her contemporary romance novels have been published under her pseudonym Daphne Dubois. Prior to becoming a…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 30, 2024

Fiction

Embark on a Thrilling Vacation Full of Danger with Agnes Sharp

Sleepy English villages should come with a warning such as “Caution, serial killer at work. Parishioners, plumbers and random little old ladies are particularly vulnerable.” Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime is the sequel to the delightfully quirky The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp. Written by the clever…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 30, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Southern Sleuthing in the Big Easy: “The Lafitte Affair” Delivers

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Love a good historical mystery? Pirates and hidden treasure? Swoon-worthy southern cuisine? Find your heart’s desires in The Lafitte Affair by Norman Woolworth. City of the Dead Curmudgeonly antiques dealer Bruneau Ignatius Abellard is finishing his last bite of Eggs…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 27, 2024

Fiction

Latest in Mystery Series Tackles Human Rights and Deadly Crimes

The Whitewashed Tombs is the fourth book featuring Private Investigator Emma Djan in this “sunshine noir” mystery series so named for its basis in coastal equatorial Ghana by Ghanaian American author, Howard University College of Medicine graduate, and retired physician Kwei Quartey. For 20 years during his successful career in…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 19, 2024

Author Spotlight

What a Haunted Camper Has to Do with Solving a “Kooky Mystery” or Two

A workaholic by nature, upon retirement, Rita Moreau began work on her bucket list — and at the top of her list was writing a book. Two series later, she is enjoying her new life turning out light mystery thrillers, with Murder in Wacky Florida centered around a sixty-something woman…

BookTribSeptember 18, 2024

Fiction Listicles

6 New Whodunit Mysteries for Kate Atkinson Fans

Lightning flashes, you hear a scream, and when the lights come on, someone is dead. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect. Was it the maid, in the library with the revolver? Full-cast murder mysteries are timeless favorites. From classic books like Murder on the Orient Express and The Mystery of Edwin…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 18, 2024

Wartime Fiction Blends History with Adventure and Mystery

Investigative Novel Questions Mysterious Death of da Vinci

Latest Mysteries from Acclaimed “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” Author

Expert Tapestry of Jewish History and Gripping Mystery

Twisted Secrets and Deadly Deceptions That’ll Keep Readers Guessing

Southern Sleuthing in the Big Easy: “The Lafitte Affair” Delivers

What a Haunted Camper Has to Do with Solving a “Kooky Mystery” or Two

6 New Whodunit Mysteries for Kate Atkinson Fans

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