Oliver Popp is a 24-year-old gay autistic travel writer working for Offbeat Traveler magazine. Oliver likes his routine, and he is a little nervous about his first feature assignment taking him to Washington, D.C. He’s paired up with Ricky Warner, a gay flirty freelance photographer, who definitely lives life a bit more (ok, a lot more) impulsively than Oliver. It’s a delightful pairing.
The weather, according to my phone, would turn to thunderstorms in the afternoon. I promised to feed Lucy and Ethel (cats) for a friend, but I would be able to get it done before the rain started.
This week we have reviews of 2 more historical mysteries both out in June-A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge: A Saffron Everleigh Mystery by Kate Khavari and Last Dance Before Dawn: Nightingale Mysteries, Book Four by Katharine Schellman (a LGBTQ+ historical mystery). Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win a copy of both books and links to purchase them from Amazon at the end of each review.
Ever since the death of his police officer husband, Jarrod Jarvis has felt a distance growing between himself and his daughter Olivia. A recent graduate with a degree in criminal justice, “Liv” is at a bit of a loss herself as to what to do with her life and her relationship with her boyfriend, Zel.
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The sheriff of Wyoming’s Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is uncharacteristically working undercover as a favor for his late wife’s cousin, postal inspector Mike Thurman. Mike is concerned after another mail deliverer went missing, and he doesn’t believe that Blair McGowan would have just walked away from her job.
You could say that I’ve been a fan of vampires since birth, because when I was a baby, my mom would watch Dark Shadows with me. That love of vampires continues to this day, and caused the algorithm on TikTok to bring me to the videos of The Vampire Jack Townson—and boy am I glad that they did.
Whenever June approaches, I find myself waxing nostalgic for the summer reading program we participated in every year at our local library when I was a child. It was a program filled with reading incentives. The more books you read, the more prizes you received. Top readers then duked it out for the Top Reader Prize which was a certificate of achievement and a boxed set of books; oh, and loads of bragging rights!
The Curds & Whey cheese shop is celebrating their two-year anniversary in Sonoma Valley’s town of Yarrow Glen, and owner Willa Bauer is preparing for a big event. It’s a happy coincidence that her best friend Hope is also having a grand opening for Hope’s Cakery, with the pastry chef transitioning from baking bread to now specializing in cupcakes and cakes.
I have been given the opportunity by the fine folks at Kings River Life Magazine to contribute an article “pertaining to writing or your book.” For the record, and so there’s no confusion, my book is a recently released novel of historical fiction entitled Hunting the Red Fox (HRF).
