Cozy Mystery All Through the Night

All Through the Night, by Mary Higgins Clark:   Retired cleaning woman and lottery winner Alvirah Meehan is on the snoop again in New York City […]

Cozy Mystery Nutty as a Fruitcake

Nutty as a Fruitcake, by Mary Daheim: ’Tis the season for murder when elderly, cantankerous Enid Goodrich is found hacked to death in her home […]

Psychological Thriller Envy

Envy, by Sandra Brown:   Perhaps money is not the root of all evil: perhaps envy is. When an over-the-transom submission lures New York publisher […]

Horror Novel 77 Shadow Street

77 Shadow Street, by Dean Koontz:   Ravenous animal-plant hybrids controlled by nanomachines prowl a midwestern luxury condo building, devouring and transforming residents into similar miscreants […]

Suspense Romance A Kiss in Winter

A Kiss in Winter, by Susan Crandall:   When the icons in her calendar photos become vandalized one-by-one and month-by-month in suspense romance A KISS […]

Literary Novel A Patchwork Planet

A Patchwork Planet, by Anne Tyler:   It’s my 30th birthday, and following family tradition in literary novel A PATCHWORK PLANET, I’m looking for my […]

Apocalyptic Fantasy Discord’s Apple

Discord’s Apple, by Carrie Vaughn:   Apocalyptic fantasy DISCORD’S APPLE melds myth with magic, ancient history with an all-too-likely near future, and a cursed Greek warrior […]

Police Thriller Dark of the Moon

Dark of the Moon, by John Sandford:   A rich, much-hated elderly man dies in his home in an arson fire in Bluestem, Minnesota, while Detective […]

Historical Young Adult Novel Chasing Secrets

Chasing Secrets, by Gennifer Choldenko:   In 1900, bubonic plague comes to San Francisco, resulting in a Chinatown quarantine. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, who prefers assisting her […]

British Mystery The Case Has Altered

The Case Has Altered, by Martha Grimes:   When love interest Jenny Kennington becomes the suspect for two murders outside his jurisdiction, Scotland Yard Superintendent […]