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Welcome to the most unique cookbook that I have ever perused. It begins with a prologue of general tips noting that if butter is in a recipe, it is salted butter; eggs should always be large sized eggs; nuts are interchangeable but be careful of allergies; and not all types of flour can be substituted for another.
The Grey Wolf, book 19 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny, is one of the most page-turning, ambitious mystery novels I have read this year. Get ready to buckle up and hang on for all 432 pages – readers will not regret it!
I’ve never seen a book that starts with, “Uber Dave eyed me in the rearview mirror…”. Beyond the Veil starts with a wild seventy-five-mile Uber ride up the New York State Thruway with a crazy lady wearing a wedding dress in the back seat screaming “Faster, faster!” Destination? The mental institution that houses her run-away groom’s sister.
Jonathan Grave funds a home and school for kids whose parents are in jail. When one of them dies from eating fentanyl-laced candy, and two others are ill, he has to find out how the candy made its way into the protected compound and who was behind the plot to harm the boy.
When I read my advance copy of Janie's Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith, edited by Michael Bracken, and published through White City Press, it dawned on me that we may be living in the golden age of music-inspired mystery short stories.
I’ve been writing lately about the reissuing of my 2nd Sydney Lockhart mystery, Murder at the Luther, set in the small Texas coastal town of Palacios. All my Sydney books are set in historic hotels. Some are exquisite, some glamorous, and some are reported to be haunted. The Luther Hotel in Palacios is best described as unpretentious and comfortably quaint.
Carissa Carmichael is not a stranger to the misfortunes of youth, however her response was to escape from her small hometown of Oak Creek Valley and head to the big city of San Francisco. For ten years, she honed her skills, knowledge, and expertise with aromatherapy and reflexology mentored by friend Mari Kemp.
After getting called to an arson scene that will be a jurisdictional nightmare, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department arson detectives Andrew Walker and Walter Sharpe are more than happy to leave and instead investigate an ongoing fire in a new housing development. It’s but one of a series of arsons set in the million-dollar new homes, with one eventually revealing the body of a crispy corpse.
Phyllida Bright takes the 1930s London Theater District by storm as our intrepid amateur detective returns for a thrilling encore performance. Colleen Cambridge’s Murder Takes the Stage is an atmospheric delight that pulls the curtain back on the historic West End.
In this book you travel with Julia Child (nee McWilliams) back in time and across the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. The story begins in December 1943, in Washington, D.C. and ends in August 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.
