A miscellany of thoughts about dogs, cats, writing, life in the Ozarks, & occasional book reviews
In the world of mystery fiction, you’ll find a varied collection of amateur sleuths—characters whose careers seldom fall within the scope of traditional law enforcement. Browse the library or bookstore shelves, and you’ll find these sleuths tend to have personal or professional reasons—sometimes both—for investigating all manner of crime. When those crimes occur at a …
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As a reader, one of the things I most enjoy is the “hook” that captures my imagination and pulls me into a book. In the case of Tina deBellegarde’s Batavia-on-Hudson mysteries, I was hooked by the setting—the historic Hudson Valley region, where my paternal grandfather settled and my father was born. The similarities between the …
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Copper Waters by Marlene M. Bell A New Zealand Cottage Mystery May 29 - June 23, 2023 Virtual Book Tour Marlene Bell’s Copper Waters is the fourth in the series featuring an antiquities expert and amateur sleuth who compulsively involves herself in investigations of murder, mayhem, and mystery. If you’re interested in mystery and suspense …
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Dead Man's Leap Virtual Book Tour May 1-31, 2022 Review: As a writer and reader, one of the things I most enjoy is the “hook” that captures my imagination and draws me into a book. In the case of Tina deBellegarde’s novel Dead Man’s Leap¸ the hook was the title itself that called to me, pulling …
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Moon Games by Shelly Frome Synopsis: At the outset, Miranda Davis has nothing much going for her. The tourists are long gone by October in the quaint Carolina town of Black Mountain, her realty business is at a standstill, and her weekend stint managing the local tavern offers little to pull her out of the …
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