LuAnn's articles The Scent of Waikiki by Terry Ambrose – #review #giveaway Honolulu landlord Wilson McKenna can smell a scam from across the room. So when one of his tenants loses everything in a work-at-home scam involving a new perfume, he’s shocked. With his wedding just weeks away, McKenna has to make a tough decision. Does he evict a woman who’s down on her luck? Or take […] July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Murder in the Cards by Paige Sleuth – #review #giveaway Tiffany Swanson is finally living the dream when she quits her stressful job to become a poker pro. Except her dream job doesn’t turn out to be so perfect when she picks up the troubling vision of a murdered man from one of her opponents. Even more disturbing, Tiffany didn’t know she was telepathic. Before […] July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Murder Made to Order by Lena Gregory – #review #giveaway To save her cozy Florida diner, Gia Morelli must choke down a heaping helping of murder . . . New York native Gia Morelli is just getting used to life in Florida when she gets word that the town government wants to shut down her pride and joy: the charming little diner known as the […] June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Poison by Punctuation by Kelly Kaye – #review #giveaway High school teacher Emma Lovett is finally recovering from her first year of teaching when she discovers another dead body. As if that wasn’t bad enough, this time, someone has killed a student, Kisten Hollis. Emma and her best friend, Leslie, are desperate to solve this murder. But suspects abound. The perpetrator could be a […] June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Murder Gone Missing by Lisa Sideris – #review Newly minted lawyer Corrie Locke has taken a vow of abstinence. From PI work, that is. Until her best friend Michael finds his bully of a boss stabbed in the back after confronting him earlier that day. Michael panics, accidentally tampering with the crime scene…which could lead the cops to Michael instead of the real […] June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Spook in the Stacks – by Eva Gates – #review #giveaway Halloween in North Carolina’s Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. […] June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle – #review #giveaway A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when a gunshot leaves a dead body behind and the landmark coffeehouse becomes the center of a whole new scene–a crime scene. As Village Blend manager Clare Cosi attempts to finalize a date for her wedding, her […] April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Nun After the Other by Alice Loweecy – #review #giveaway Nuns and murder and ghosts, oh my! Here comes Giulia Driscoll again, and boy, is she in for it this time. It starts when a frenzied Chihuahua leads Giulia and Frank Driscoll to the body of a nun in the street near a convent. The nuns fear they’re being harassed by the biggest developer in […] April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Farewell, My Cuckoo by Marty Wingate – #review Julia Lanchester must defend her love nest from an invasive species: her boyfriend’s sister. And then there’s the little matter of murder . . . “The cuckoo comes in April and sings its song in May. In June it changes tune and July it flies away.” Wedding bells are ringing in the small British village […] April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Courage Between Love and Death by Joseph Pillitteri – #review Elspeth has recently landed a nursing position at the 1901 Pan American Exposition Hospital in Buffalo, New York. This is a big boon for her, but things are not going as expected. She has to navigate mischievous patients, egotistical doctors, rival nurses and prejudices. For an Irish girl with a temper, this is no easy […] April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Italian Chronicles 3: Return to Bella Terra by Maryann Diorio – #review #giveaway A mother, her son, and the man who threatens to come between them . . . When Maria Landro Tonetta receives word that Mama is terminally ill, Maria travels to her Sicilian homeland with her son Nico. She finds herself yearning for the life she once knew as a child on Bella Terra, the family […] April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Killer Tied by Lesley A. Diehl – #review Eve Appel Egret is adjusting to married life with Sammy and their three adopted sons in Sabal Bay, Florida. While still running her consignment stores, she is going pro with her sleuthing by becoming an apprentice to a private detective. Until her marriage, Eve’s only “family” was her grandmother Grandy, who raised her after her […] March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Italilan Chronicles 2: A Sicilian Farewell by MaryAnn Diorio – #review #giveaway A young man, a new land, and a dream that threatens to destroy him and his family . . . The dream of a better life for himself and his family drives Luca Tonetta to the American Promised Land with his wife of five years, Maria Landro Tonetto, and their three children. But the new […] March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Italian Chronicles Series 1-3 by MaryAnn Diorio – #review A young woman, a priest, and a secret that keeps them bitterly bound to each other… A horrifying encounter drags soon-to-be-married Maria Landro into the shocking world of religious corruption and an unrelenting village code of honor that threatens to rob her of everything she holds dear. Shunned by the very people who should have […] March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Cold Light of Dawn by Anna Belfrage – #review After Henry of Lancaster’s rebellion has been crushed early in 1329, a restless peace settles over England. However, the young Edward III is no longer content with being his regents’ puppet, no matter that neither Queen Isabella nor Roger Mortimer show any inclination to give up their power. Caught in between is Adam de Guirande, […] March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Uninvited Corpse by Debra Sennefelder – #review Leaving behind a failed career as a magazine editor and an embarrassing stint on a reality baking show, newly divorced lifestyle entrepreneur Hope Early thought things were finally on the upswing—until she comes face-to-face with a murderer . . . Hope’s schedule is already jam packed with recipe testing and shameless plugs for her food […] March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Playing With Bonbon Fire by Dorothy St James – #review #giveaway Chocoholic Charity Penn must smoke out the killer to stop her newly inherited beachside chocolate shop from going up in flames in Dorothy St. James’ decadent follow-up to Asking for Truffle. Chocolate shop owner Charity Penn is finally settling into life in the quirky South Carolina seaside town of Camellia Beach cooking up chocolate treats. […] March 16, 2018March 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Lethal in Old Lace by Duffy Brown – #review Reagan Summerside returns in national bestselling author Duffy Brown’s fifth Consignment Shop mystery, now for the first time in hardcover. There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz […] March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Six Feet Under by Tonya Kappes – #review Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth. And let me tell you, this broth is in trouble. Get ready for a Southern showdown. The residents of Cottonwood, Kentucky are sent into a tizzy when the Culinary Channel comes to town to film an episode of Southern Home Cookin’ with celebrity chef Frank Von […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Plum Tea Crazy by Laura Childs – #review #giveaway Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. While viewing the harbor’s Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow’s walk of Timothy Neville’s Charleston mansion, local banker Carson Lanier seemingly tumbles over a narrow railing, then plunges three stories […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Witch Way to Mintwood by Addison Creek – #review #giveaway House falling down? Check. Pet sitting job with annoying clients? Check. Ability to speak to ghosts, which has the unfortunate side effect of having to listen to what they say back? Double check! Hot high school crush still in town being all successful and stuff while you protest his building projects? All kinds of checks! […] March 11, 2018March 11, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Southern Discomfort by Caroline Fardig – #review #giveaway Southern hospitality meets deadly deception in the start of a charming new mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of the Java Jive novels. Quinn Bellandini loves her life in Savannah, Georgia, where she runs her grandfather’s B&B with her sister, Delilah. From baking fresh scones and serving up grits every morning to ensuring […] March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked 39 Winks by Kathleen Valenti – #coverreveal 39 Winks Former pharmaceutical researcher Maggie O’Malley is losing sleep. Her boyfriend Constantine’s aunt is a multitasking sleepwalker who prepares meals, folds laundry and, one winter night, stumbles across her husband with his throat slit. It’s a rude and gruesome awakening that’s upsetting to Aunt Polly. And interesting to the police. Maggie and Constantine work […] March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Hummus and Homicide by Tina Kashian – #review #giveaway When Lucy Berberian quits her Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, she knows what she’s getting—the scent of funnel cake, the sight of the wooden roller coaster, and the tastes of her family’s Mediterranean restaurant. But murder wasn’t on the menu . . . Things are slow in the off-season in this […] March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover by Susan Wittig Albert – #review #giveaway NYT bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to Depression-era Darling, Alabama…where the ladies of the Dahlias, the local garden club, are happy to dig a little dirt! In the seventh book of this popular series, it looks like the music has ended for Darling’s favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers—just days before the Dixie […] February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Secret Life of Mrs. London by Rebecca Rosenberg – #review San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn’t see it that […] February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Six Dogs ‘Til Sunday by Lia Farrell – #review #giveaway It’s January in Rosedale, Tennessee, and Mae December is preparing for her March wedding to Sheriff Ben Bradley. Mae, who boards dogs for a living, is also busy tending to her pregnant dog and scouting locations for the movie featuring the music of her former fiancé Noah West, who died in a car accident four […] February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Pawprints and Predicaments by Bethany Blake – #review #giveaway The Tail Waggin’ Winterfest is the highlight of the season in the famously pet-friendly Pocono Mountains town of Sylvan Creek. But despite attractions like an ice sculpture display, a dogsled race, and gourmet hot chocolate, Daphne Templeton finds herself annoyed by TV producer Lauren Savidge, who’s filming the festivities. She’s critical, controlling, and as chilly […] February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Dead as a Doornail by Tonya Kappes – #coverreveal Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. And doesn’t our Sheriff Kenni Lowry know that? Well, she knows a lot of things. Lucy Lowell takes great pride in writing negative reviews in the local newspaper for anything that does not go her way. When Lucy is found dead, it appears to […] February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper by Ana Brazil – #review #giveaway Gilded Age New Orleans is overrun with prostitutes, pornographers, and a malicious Jack the Ripper copycat. As threatening letters to newspaper editors proclaim, no woman is safe from his blade. Desperate to know who murdered her favorite student, ambitious typewriting teacher Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper. Fanny quickly […] February 16, 2018February 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Murder is a Dirty Business by Tricia L. Sanders – #review #giveaway When Cece Cavanaugh’s husband empties their joint bank account, steals her designer luggage, and runs off with a younger woman, Cece must decide whether to ask her manipulative mother-in-law for a handout or get a job. Choosing the easier path, Cece lands a job cleaning a crime scene where a high school coach was murdered. […] February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Best of Luck (O'Briens) by Corinne Scott – #review #giveaway Crew Costa isn’t Irish, but for a kid from the school of hard knocks, he’s had the luck of the Irish with his chain of faux-Irish pubs, O’Shaughnessy’s Shenanigans. Number 13 is set to open in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The Bronx is already the site of several authentic Irish pubs, including The Lion […] February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Clairvoyant and Present Danger by Lena Gregory – #review #giveaway Whoever said that dead men tell no tales has never met Cass Donnovan… Cass has always relied on her abilities to guide her, but after communications with a ghost land her in the middle of a murder investigation, she has to wonder if her gifts are really more a curse. Cass knows she is meant […] February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Soldier's Return by Laura Libricz – #review #giveaway The Soldier's Return by Laura LibriczPublication Date: September 2017eBook & PaperbackSeries: Heaven's Pond Trilogy, Book TwoGenre: Historical Fiction The year is 1626. A senseless war rips through parts of Germany. Ongoing animosity between the Catholics and the Protestants has turned into an excuse to destroy much of the landscape situated between France, Italy and Denmark. But […] February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Biscuits and Slashed Browns by Maddie Day – #review #giveaway For country-store owner Robbie Jordan, the National Maple Syrup Festival is a sweet escape from late-winter in South Lick, Indiana—until murder saps the life out of the celebration . . . As Robbie arranges a breakfast-themed cook-off at Pans ‘N Pancakes, visitors pour into Brown County for the annual maple extravaganza. Unfortunately, that includes Professor […] February 9, 2018February 9, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked A Well-Timed Murder by Tracee de Hahn – #review #giveaway Swiss-American police officer Agnes Lüthi is on leave in Lausanne, Switzerland, recovering from injuries she sustained in her last case, when an old colleague invites her to the world’s premier watch and jewelry trade show at the grand Messe Basel Exhibition Hall. Little does Agnes know, another friend of hers, Julien Vallotton, is at the […] February 7, 2018February 7, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked An Argument of Blood by J.A. Ironside and Michael Willis – #review William, the nineteen-year-old duke of Normandy, is enjoying the full fruits of his station. Life is a succession of hunts, feasts, and revels, with little attention paid to the welfare of his vassals. Tired of the young duke’s dissolute behaviour and ashamed of his illegitimate birth, a group of traitorous barons force their way into […] February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Vanished Bride of Northfield House by Phyllis M. Newman – #review #giveaway England, 1922 Times are hard. Anne Chatham is a clever, modest young woman with little money, no prospects for marriage, and a never-shared secret—she can see spirits. Anne finds employment as a typist at Northfield House, the grand country manor of the Wellington family. Her employer, the wheelchair-bound Mr. Wellington, is kindly. His haughty wife […] February 2, 2018February 2, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Phantom of Oz by Cindy Brown – #review #giveaway Creepy munchkins. A mysterious phantom. And a real Wicked Witch. Are you ready for it? Actress and part-time PI Ivy Meadows has been hired to uncover the cause of the creepy accidents that plague the roadshow The Wizard: A Space OZpera and find out who dropped a chandelier on the Wicked Witch of the East. […] January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Where Do I Go by Beverly Magid – #review #giveaway It’s 1908 and Leah and her boys have immigrated to New York’s Lower East Side to live with her brothers after surviving a pogrom in their Russian village. She is determined to find a home in America but the conditions are harsher than she expected. The garment sweat shops are brutal to work in and […] January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Loading Load more
The Scent of Waikiki by Terry Ambrose – #review #giveaway Honolulu landlord Wilson McKenna can smell a scam from across the room. So when one of his tenants loses everything in a work-at-home scam involving a new perfume, he’s shocked. With his wedding just weeks away, McKenna has to make a tough decision. Does he evict a woman who’s down on her luck? Or take […] July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Murder in the Cards by Paige Sleuth – #review #giveaway Tiffany Swanson is finally living the dream when she quits her stressful job to become a poker pro. Except her dream job doesn’t turn out to be so perfect when she picks up the troubling vision of a murdered man from one of her opponents. Even more disturbing, Tiffany didn’t know she was telepathic. Before […] July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Murder Made to Order by Lena Gregory – #review #giveaway To save her cozy Florida diner, Gia Morelli must choke down a heaping helping of murder . . . New York native Gia Morelli is just getting used to life in Florida when she gets word that the town government wants to shut down her pride and joy: the charming little diner known as the […] June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poison by Punctuation by Kelly Kaye – #review #giveaway High school teacher Emma Lovett is finally recovering from her first year of teaching when she discovers another dead body. As if that wasn’t bad enough, this time, someone has killed a student, Kisten Hollis. Emma and her best friend, Leslie, are desperate to solve this murder. But suspects abound. The perpetrator could be a […] June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Murder Gone Missing by Lisa Sideris – #review Newly minted lawyer Corrie Locke has taken a vow of abstinence. From PI work, that is. Until her best friend Michael finds his bully of a boss stabbed in the back after confronting him earlier that day. Michael panics, accidentally tampering with the crime scene…which could lead the cops to Michael instead of the real […] June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Spook in the Stacks – by Eva Gates – #review #giveaway Halloween in North Carolina’s Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. […] June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle – #review #giveaway A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when a gunshot leaves a dead body behind and the landmark coffeehouse becomes the center of a whole new scene–a crime scene. As Village Blend manager Clare Cosi attempts to finalize a date for her wedding, her […] April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Nun After the Other by Alice Loweecy – #review #giveaway Nuns and murder and ghosts, oh my! Here comes Giulia Driscoll again, and boy, is she in for it this time. It starts when a frenzied Chihuahua leads Giulia and Frank Driscoll to the body of a nun in the street near a convent. The nuns fear they’re being harassed by the biggest developer in […] April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Farewell, My Cuckoo by Marty Wingate – #review Julia Lanchester must defend her love nest from an invasive species: her boyfriend’s sister. And then there’s the little matter of murder . . . “The cuckoo comes in April and sings its song in May. In June it changes tune and July it flies away.” Wedding bells are ringing in the small British village […] April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Between Love and Death by Joseph Pillitteri – #review Elspeth has recently landed a nursing position at the 1901 Pan American Exposition Hospital in Buffalo, New York. This is a big boon for her, but things are not going as expected. She has to navigate mischievous patients, egotistical doctors, rival nurses and prejudices. For an Irish girl with a temper, this is no easy […] April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Italian Chronicles 3: Return to Bella Terra by Maryann Diorio – #review #giveaway A mother, her son, and the man who threatens to come between them . . . When Maria Landro Tonetta receives word that Mama is terminally ill, Maria travels to her Sicilian homeland with her son Nico. She finds herself yearning for the life she once knew as a child on Bella Terra, the family […] April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Killer Tied by Lesley A. Diehl – #review Eve Appel Egret is adjusting to married life with Sammy and their three adopted sons in Sabal Bay, Florida. While still running her consignment stores, she is going pro with her sleuthing by becoming an apprentice to a private detective. Until her marriage, Eve’s only “family” was her grandmother Grandy, who raised her after her […] March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Italilan Chronicles 2: A Sicilian Farewell by MaryAnn Diorio – #review #giveaway A young man, a new land, and a dream that threatens to destroy him and his family . . . The dream of a better life for himself and his family drives Luca Tonetta to the American Promised Land with his wife of five years, Maria Landro Tonetto, and their three children. But the new […] March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Italian Chronicles Series 1-3 by MaryAnn Diorio – #review A young woman, a priest, and a secret that keeps them bitterly bound to each other… A horrifying encounter drags soon-to-be-married Maria Landro into the shocking world of religious corruption and an unrelenting village code of honor that threatens to rob her of everything she holds dear. Shunned by the very people who should have […] March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Cold Light of Dawn by Anna Belfrage – #review After Henry of Lancaster’s rebellion has been crushed early in 1329, a restless peace settles over England. However, the young Edward III is no longer content with being his regents’ puppet, no matter that neither Queen Isabella nor Roger Mortimer show any inclination to give up their power. Caught in between is Adam de Guirande, […] March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Uninvited Corpse by Debra Sennefelder – #review Leaving behind a failed career as a magazine editor and an embarrassing stint on a reality baking show, newly divorced lifestyle entrepreneur Hope Early thought things were finally on the upswing—until she comes face-to-face with a murderer . . . Hope’s schedule is already jam packed with recipe testing and shameless plugs for her food […] March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Playing With Bonbon Fire by Dorothy St James – #review #giveaway Chocoholic Charity Penn must smoke out the killer to stop her newly inherited beachside chocolate shop from going up in flames in Dorothy St. James’ decadent follow-up to Asking for Truffle. Chocolate shop owner Charity Penn is finally settling into life in the quirky South Carolina seaside town of Camellia Beach cooking up chocolate treats. […] March 16, 2018March 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lethal in Old Lace by Duffy Brown – #review Reagan Summerside returns in national bestselling author Duffy Brown’s fifth Consignment Shop mystery, now for the first time in hardcover. There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz […] March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Six Feet Under by Tonya Kappes – #review Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth. And let me tell you, this broth is in trouble. Get ready for a Southern showdown. The residents of Cottonwood, Kentucky are sent into a tizzy when the Culinary Channel comes to town to film an episode of Southern Home Cookin’ with celebrity chef Frank Von […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Plum Tea Crazy by Laura Childs – #review #giveaway Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. While viewing the harbor’s Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow’s walk of Timothy Neville’s Charleston mansion, local banker Carson Lanier seemingly tumbles over a narrow railing, then plunges three stories […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Witch Way to Mintwood by Addison Creek – #review #giveaway House falling down? Check. Pet sitting job with annoying clients? Check. Ability to speak to ghosts, which has the unfortunate side effect of having to listen to what they say back? Double check! Hot high school crush still in town being all successful and stuff while you protest his building projects? All kinds of checks! […] March 11, 2018March 11, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Southern Discomfort by Caroline Fardig – #review #giveaway Southern hospitality meets deadly deception in the start of a charming new mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of the Java Jive novels. Quinn Bellandini loves her life in Savannah, Georgia, where she runs her grandfather’s B&B with her sister, Delilah. From baking fresh scones and serving up grits every morning to ensuring […] March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
39 Winks by Kathleen Valenti – #coverreveal 39 Winks Former pharmaceutical researcher Maggie O’Malley is losing sleep. Her boyfriend Constantine’s aunt is a multitasking sleepwalker who prepares meals, folds laundry and, one winter night, stumbles across her husband with his throat slit. It’s a rude and gruesome awakening that’s upsetting to Aunt Polly. And interesting to the police. Maggie and Constantine work […] March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Hummus and Homicide by Tina Kashian – #review #giveaway When Lucy Berberian quits her Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, she knows what she’s getting—the scent of funnel cake, the sight of the wooden roller coaster, and the tastes of her family’s Mediterranean restaurant. But murder wasn’t on the menu . . . Things are slow in the off-season in this […] March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover by Susan Wittig Albert – #review #giveaway NYT bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to Depression-era Darling, Alabama…where the ladies of the Dahlias, the local garden club, are happy to dig a little dirt! In the seventh book of this popular series, it looks like the music has ended for Darling’s favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers—just days before the Dixie […] February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Secret Life of Mrs. London by Rebecca Rosenberg – #review San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn’t see it that […] February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Six Dogs ‘Til Sunday by Lia Farrell – #review #giveaway It’s January in Rosedale, Tennessee, and Mae December is preparing for her March wedding to Sheriff Ben Bradley. Mae, who boards dogs for a living, is also busy tending to her pregnant dog and scouting locations for the movie featuring the music of her former fiancé Noah West, who died in a car accident four […] February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Pawprints and Predicaments by Bethany Blake – #review #giveaway The Tail Waggin’ Winterfest is the highlight of the season in the famously pet-friendly Pocono Mountains town of Sylvan Creek. But despite attractions like an ice sculpture display, a dogsled race, and gourmet hot chocolate, Daphne Templeton finds herself annoyed by TV producer Lauren Savidge, who’s filming the festivities. She’s critical, controlling, and as chilly […] February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Dead as a Doornail by Tonya Kappes – #coverreveal Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. And doesn’t our Sheriff Kenni Lowry know that? Well, she knows a lot of things. Lucy Lowell takes great pride in writing negative reviews in the local newspaper for anything that does not go her way. When Lucy is found dead, it appears to […] February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper by Ana Brazil – #review #giveaway Gilded Age New Orleans is overrun with prostitutes, pornographers, and a malicious Jack the Ripper copycat. As threatening letters to newspaper editors proclaim, no woman is safe from his blade. Desperate to know who murdered her favorite student, ambitious typewriting teacher Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper. Fanny quickly […] February 16, 2018February 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Murder is a Dirty Business by Tricia L. Sanders – #review #giveaway When Cece Cavanaugh’s husband empties their joint bank account, steals her designer luggage, and runs off with a younger woman, Cece must decide whether to ask her manipulative mother-in-law for a handout or get a job. Choosing the easier path, Cece lands a job cleaning a crime scene where a high school coach was murdered. […] February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Best of Luck (O'Briens) by Corinne Scott – #review #giveaway Crew Costa isn’t Irish, but for a kid from the school of hard knocks, he’s had the luck of the Irish with his chain of faux-Irish pubs, O’Shaughnessy’s Shenanigans. Number 13 is set to open in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The Bronx is already the site of several authentic Irish pubs, including The Lion […] February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Clairvoyant and Present Danger by Lena Gregory – #review #giveaway Whoever said that dead men tell no tales has never met Cass Donnovan… Cass has always relied on her abilities to guide her, but after communications with a ghost land her in the middle of a murder investigation, she has to wonder if her gifts are really more a curse. Cass knows she is meant […] February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Soldier's Return by Laura Libricz – #review #giveaway The Soldier's Return by Laura LibriczPublication Date: September 2017eBook & PaperbackSeries: Heaven's Pond Trilogy, Book TwoGenre: Historical Fiction The year is 1626. A senseless war rips through parts of Germany. Ongoing animosity between the Catholics and the Protestants has turned into an excuse to destroy much of the landscape situated between France, Italy and Denmark. But […] February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Biscuits and Slashed Browns by Maddie Day – #review #giveaway For country-store owner Robbie Jordan, the National Maple Syrup Festival is a sweet escape from late-winter in South Lick, Indiana—until murder saps the life out of the celebration . . . As Robbie arranges a breakfast-themed cook-off at Pans ‘N Pancakes, visitors pour into Brown County for the annual maple extravaganza. Unfortunately, that includes Professor […] February 9, 2018February 9, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Well-Timed Murder by Tracee de Hahn – #review #giveaway Swiss-American police officer Agnes Lüthi is on leave in Lausanne, Switzerland, recovering from injuries she sustained in her last case, when an old colleague invites her to the world’s premier watch and jewelry trade show at the grand Messe Basel Exhibition Hall. Little does Agnes know, another friend of hers, Julien Vallotton, is at the […] February 7, 2018February 7, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
An Argument of Blood by J.A. Ironside and Michael Willis – #review William, the nineteen-year-old duke of Normandy, is enjoying the full fruits of his station. Life is a succession of hunts, feasts, and revels, with little attention paid to the welfare of his vassals. Tired of the young duke’s dissolute behaviour and ashamed of his illegitimate birth, a group of traitorous barons force their way into […] February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Vanished Bride of Northfield House by Phyllis M. Newman – #review #giveaway England, 1922 Times are hard. Anne Chatham is a clever, modest young woman with little money, no prospects for marriage, and a never-shared secret—she can see spirits. Anne finds employment as a typist at Northfield House, the grand country manor of the Wellington family. Her employer, the wheelchair-bound Mr. Wellington, is kindly. His haughty wife […] February 2, 2018February 2, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Phantom of Oz by Cindy Brown – #review #giveaway Creepy munchkins. A mysterious phantom. And a real Wicked Witch. Are you ready for it? Actress and part-time PI Ivy Meadows has been hired to uncover the cause of the creepy accidents that plague the roadshow The Wizard: A Space OZpera and find out who dropped a chandelier on the Wicked Witch of the East. […] January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Where Do I Go by Beverly Magid – #review #giveaway It’s 1908 and Leah and her boys have immigrated to New York’s Lower East Side to live with her brothers after surviving a pogrom in their Russian village. She is determined to find a home in America but the conditions are harsher than she expected. The garment sweat shops are brutal to work in and […] January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
