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Musings--2023 Book of the YearI looked over the books I reviewed for 2023 by month and filtered it down to one standout book for 2023. ...
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Review - Locked In PursuitWorld War II spy versus spy gets a woman hero who is complex and passionate in Electra McDonnell with plenty of thrills and a slow burn...
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Musing - Sherlock Holmes vs Hercule PoirotI'll admit up front I like these two detectives pretty much equally, so comparing them is a new thought for me. I had to research...
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Review - Act Like A Lady, Think Like A LordAuthor Celeste Connally is an Agatha Award nominee, and a former freelance writer and editor. This is a brand new historical mystery...
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Musings - Track Your Reading (and so much more)I have done a few posts of interest for a New Year prior that I'd like to share again: Create Family Reading Habits and...
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Review - Murder Marks the PageThe first in a new series spun off from the Daisy Tea Garden Mysteries, Daisy’s daughter Jazzi Swanson has opened her own book and tea...
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Musings - New Year's Vision BoardA vision board is a collection of images and words that symbolize your goals, dreams and visions of success for what you want to...
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Review - The Curse of Penryth HallIf you are a fan of the gothic books from the 1960s thru the 1990s by Victoria Holt, Norah Lofts, Dorothy Eden, Joan Aiken, and many others then...
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Mystery Movie Review-A Haunting in Venice vs Hallowe'en PartyA Haunting in Venice (2023) is very loosely inspired by the 1969 book Halloween Party by Agatha Christie, her 31st novel to...
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Review - Snow Place for MurderGet into the winter and holiday mood with this book. We are up to the third in this series that I have been following since the...
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Review - A Counterfeit SuitorThis is a favorite series, a "must read" on my list. I have missed it and caught up with it here. First book "A Useful Woman" (...
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Musings - Cozy, Traditional, and Amateur SleuthWhen I tell people I'm an author they inevitably ask what I write. When I reply cozy mysteries they either light up and...
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Review - Key to Deceit/Playing it Safe1) A Peculiar Combination ( click here ) Guest Post: ( click here ) I realized I hadn't done my review of the...
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Review - Digging Up DaisyToday I am reviewing a the debut novel in a new series by Sherry Lynn, who also writes as Holly Danvers and Holly Quinn. As Holly Quinn she...
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Banned Book Week 2023October 1-7 is Banned Book Week (began in 1982) where we bring awareness to book banning and push back. Judith Krug,...
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Review - The Fatal FolioMaybe it's me, but every since the book The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, where there was the actual story line alongside a book...
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Mystery Movie Review - See How They RunThe tagline says: "The greatest murder ever staged" and is a comedy mystery. I ran across this 2022 comedy mystery by accident, and what a...
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Review - Shadow in the GlassThe marketing says this series is ideal for fans of Louise Penny and Dorothy L. Sayers. I've been following this series since it...
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Review - Death By a Thousand SipsThis is another new-to-me series and author. It claims it is for fans of Laura Childs, Amanda Flowers, and Cleo Coyle which convinced me to...
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Review - Curds of PreyI haven't read the two prior books in the series and I had no problem following the storyline at all. This is a completely new-to-me author...
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Review - Tempest at SeaI have been a fan of this series that re-imagines the Sherlock mythos since the debut: 1) A Study in Scarlet Women ( click here...
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Thriller Movie Review - The PeacemakerGeorge Clooney and Nicole Kidman in a thriller movie, what more needs to be said. Both bring so much to the screen on their own but...
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Review - Mother Daughter Traitor SpySusan Elia MacNeal is the author of the award winning best selling Magie Hope mysteries. But she has written a stand-alone novel set in...
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Musings - Carnegie Libraries, What's the Big Deal?Carnegie libraries are special, but few people even know what their significance is and why they were so important. ...
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Review - Read to Death at the Lakeside LibraryI hadn't read any cozy mysteries with a lake setting and thus this lake location plus a librarian really appealed to me. This is the third...
