Big Name Fan is a debut sapphic mystery by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare that’s both tense and heartwarming. Fans of second-chance romances should also pick this up.
Bexley (Bex) Simon and Sam Farmer played detectives on the television show Craven’s Daughter that ended five years ago.
Some thrillers are like those extravagant falling domino videos. Someone fastidiously sets up tiny details in an intricate pattern, then with a soft touch, collapses them artistically, releasing the tension in awe and wonderment. Others are dense and dark, baffling the reader throughout, until light dawns in the final chapter.
This second book of the Zen Goat Mystery series is a thoroughly delightful and fun cozy. It involves goat yoga, a hog racing misfire, fair rides, and midway fun, plus murder. Callie Haybeck moved from the city of Seattle to Bobwhite Hollow to connect with family she found through a DNA website search like Ancestry.com.
Book three of the Josie Posey Mysteries finds English Village celebrating the Christmas season with a Christmas Market and an influx of visitors. Among the sightseers is Nellie’s aunt Opal, twin to notable doll collector Pearl. After books one and two, the Mahjong Mavens were ready to leave the police work to the police. But there is no way the Mavens can ignore the pain that fellow Maven Nellie experiences when her aunt Opal is murdered.
Reedley College Literary Arts hosts many interesting author events each year. One of the highlights this year will be bestselling author Gabriele Zevin who will be talking about her latest book Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Recently we spoke with Reedley College English instructor Deborah Lyns to learn more. She is part of a team who work to bring authors to campus and help to coordinate Literary Arts events.
Sunny Collins—single mom, working mom, college student mom—is she being stalked? Attacked, dragged from her car, kidnapped, forcibly bitten, drained of blood, forced to drink the coppery liquid from the captor who feeds from her. She becomes . . . Monster by Roh Morgon, a prequel to the Chosen series of fantasy/vampire suspense novels.
A Death in Diamonds is the second Her Majesty the Queen Investigates novel I’ve read; I loved The Windsor Knot when it was first released, and I must say, these mysteries get better and better as the series continues. While Knot follows an elderly Queen Elizabeth, Diamonds takes us back to the late 1950s, when the Queen is at the “grand old age of 30.”
As president of Sisters in Crime LA, I wanted to take the opportunity to share with Kings River Life a little of what went on behind the scenes with the production of Angel City Beat, SinC LA’s newest anthology. One of my biggest honors is to help authors find a home for their work, and sometimes, that home has been our anthology.
When I first envisioned writing what would become my debut adult novel, She Doesn’t Have A Clue, I knew I wanted to set it in the Pacific Northwest. I needed somewhere beautiful, and wild, and deeply unique to meet the tone of my half-mystery, half-romantic comedy story about a writer on deadline at her ex-fiancé's wedding who stumbles over the bride's lifeless body and becomes the prime suspect in her poisoning.
A poet who captured the culture of Dust Bowl refugees, lived in the San Joaquin Valley, and most of us have never heard of her! Pick Up Your Name and Write: The Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel is part of Betty Blanks’ crusade to change that lack of knowledge.
