And the Lake Will Take Them by Linda Norlander I read this book while I had pneumonia - and it kept me on my toes and engaged while I was coughing my had off. It all takes place in a small town - the sheriff is the widow of the former sheriff and he was the son of the former sheriff. There is a lot of infighting - there are parts of the town that want to get rid of her - nepotism? But personally it was because they were all guilty and wanted to put in their own sheriff so that way they could control the town. We hear about her husbands death extensively - and we go back to flashbacks - she is still grieving - and on Christmas she goes back to look at dead cases - which there are four. Missy happens to be the current case, her father was one of the four unsolved cases - and then we have a crazy person running around (who I think was SAed and has multiple personalities). There were so many twists and turns - and we got to learn about the local "p...
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Cozy Case Files, Volume 23 A Cozy Mystery Sampler by Paige Shelton; Gigi Pandian; Jennifer J. Chow; Ellie Alexander; Diane Kelly; Vivien Chien I read this over the holidays while having pneumonia. This is a sample of a collection of books - you get Star-Crossed Egg Tarts - about a Asian American caterer who prepares wedding treats - shockingly there is a murder at the wedding - Killing me Souflee - I would buy this one as a stand alone book. The Library Game, Written in Stone, Dead Post Society and The Chow Maniac are also included. I didn't know there was a Lillian Jackson Braun award - I love her books - Overall, a good smattering of introductions to authors I have not heard of before. I would give it a five - just on the intros - and I can't wait to read som new authors! I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
The Last Voyage by Brian D. McLaren Before I start - I was given the opportunity to read this ARC before it was published for an honest review - from NetGalley. This is my review! The Last Voyage will be published on July 31, 2025. Book one of three. In the future, the world will be ruled by oligarchs' - who will give "power" to politicians and governments around the world - but the true rulers are the oligarchs. (This is the books premise). Well basically the oligarchs' do not care for humanity the planet - gasp - just on getting more money, raping the land of more resources. Until they kill it. The Last Voyage is the last group of ten attempting to get to Mars. It is funded by the "last good oligarch. The book begins by meeting one of the main scientists leaving her country -all cloak and dagger and carrying cyanide pills on her jewelry. Then you meet the two big characters - maybe three - Eve and her father and then one of the oli...
I just recently finished "The After Hours" by Aspen Andersen. The book will be published on March 4, 2025. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. I was intrigued with the plot line - time traveling, romance, intrigue, murder - I mean that is what all books should be made of. The story goes into depth on how this "supernatural abilities" came about and what it entails -and the rules that go along with using them. I really do not want to give to much away - the one group of beings that have this power has supposedly wiped out by a battle with another group - well it turns out that there was one more person until she "jumps" to the future and gives her power to a girl, Sloane, that we meet in her present. Sloane has a lot of baggage of her own - and the book shows her trying to deal with it - with jumps back to the past, but then there will be like three or four "hers" in the past so it gets comp...