After the closing of a struggling newspaper in San Francisco, reporter Maya Wong has to return home to Oahu despite not having been back since she left to attend graduate school in California. Now living in a “condotel” in Waikiki, Maya has taken on a well-paying ghostwriting job for the wealthy developer Parker Hamilton.
This week we have reviews and giveaways of 3 more fun mysteries as we play catchup for the end of 2024-A Slay Ride Together With You: Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series by Vicki Delaney, All’s Fair in Love and Treachery by Celeste Connally, The Night Woods by Paula Munier, and Murder on the Page by Daryl Wood Gerber.
Silent are the Dead follows D.M. Rowell’s 2023 Mary Higgins Clark Award finalist, Never Name the Dead, with another mystery for Kiowa Nation member Mae “Mud” Sawpole.
We are changing this column to include an interview with authors about their current and upcoming works in progress. Our first author is Rob Osler, author of the Hayden and Friends Mysteries and the upcoming mystery novel, The Case of the Missing Maid, set to be released in early January but covered in this article last month.
Whitstable Pearl stars Kerry Godliman as Pearl Nolan who owns a restaurant she named Whitstable Pearl. Her mother, Dolly, helps out, and they have a young chef named Ruby. Pearl also has her own private investigation firm—she used to be with the police until she got pregnant and had her son Charlie who has gone away to Canada to spend some time with his father.
by Sarah Peterson-Camacho
Sunday, November 2, 1986, Day of the DeadHalloween was on a Friday that year—a boon to schoolkids flying high on a candy-fueled sugar rush, and for those party-hardy adults who’d be nursing hangovers the next day. All had that entire weekend to recover.
Here is your weekly reminder that there are also new articles up on our other website KRL News & Reviews! Every week there will be book reviews and giveaways, plus sometimes pet articles, theatre articles, and more! And listen to our new podcast!
Thanksgiving may be over for this year, but the holiday season is still chock-full of other family get-togethers. Sometimes some people get their fill of all this “happiness” and, well, let’s say they don’t react well. Also, on a more serious note, hunger is an issue that doesn’t go away when the giving season ends. That’s the reason for this suggestion to grab some copies of The Perp Wore Pumpkin and pass them out as last-minute gifts. Hey, these inexpensive books even make nice party favors!
There is a school shooter in the building.
Wait, let me build the scene.
I teach creative writing at a community college. It’s not Ivy League, but I still teach with the same passion, integrity, duty as if it were.
This week we have reviews and giveaways of 3 more Christmas mysteries for your holiday reading-Death of a Gingerbread Man: A Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails Mystery by Lee Hollis, Murder at a Scottish Christmas by Traci Hall, and The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict.
