by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 19, 2015 | Reviews
Aunt Dimity and the Summer King by Nancy Atherton Viking (240 pages) April 14, 2015 Summer has returned to the tiny English village of Finch, and while Lori Shepherd should be enjoying the sunny countryside with her new baby daughter—or at the very least preparing for...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 11, 2015 | Books
Dark Chocolate Demise by Jenn McKinlay Cupcake Bakery Mystery #7 Berkley Prime Crime April 7, 2015 The owners of Fairy Tale Cupcakes – Melanie Cooper, Angie DeLaura, and Tate Harper – figure donning costumes and hawking their wares at Scottsdale’s first annual zombie...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 7, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Rhys Bowen Berkley Prime Crime Hardcover Pub Date: August 5th, 14 England, 1934. Lady Georgiana Rannoch is bored stiff playing companion to an elderly dowager duchess, so when her mother, actress Claire Daniels, announces she’s traveling to Reno to get a quickie...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 19, 2014 | Books, Reviews
BOILED OVER Barbara Ross Kensington Mystery Pub Date: May 6, 2014 It’s Founder’s Weekend in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, and at Julia Snowden’s urging, the Snowden Family Clambake has set up shop on the town pier to take advantage of the increased foot traffic. The...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 19, 2014 | Books, Reviews
THE POISONED PAWN Peggy Blair Pintail press Pub Date: February 25, 2014 Canadian police detective Mike Ellis finally returns home from his disastrous trip to Old Havana only to discover that his nightmare isn’t yet over. It seems his estranged wife Hillary, who took...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 17, 2014 | Books, Reviews
PAWS FOR MURDER by Annie Knox Pet Boutique Mystery #1 Obsidian Pub Date: January 7, 2014 Izzy McHale always assumed that by now, she’d be married to her childhood sweetheart, living and working in NYC – not single in her hometown of Merryville, Minnesota, using her...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 6, 2014 | Books, Comics
With 2013 in the rear view mirror, the Crimespree crew has been doing a lot of thinking about what impacted us last year. Today, we will offer up some of the titles that we felt were noteworthy. They will be broken into a couple of categories: Reads (Books, Comics)...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 10, 2013 | Books, Reviews
White House Chef Mystery #7 Berkley Prime Crime Pub date: January 7, 2014 At this point, organizing a last-minute, high-profile state dinner is something White House executive chef Olivia “Ollie” Paras should be able to do in her sleep. When you factor in a near-death...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 4, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Minotaur Books Pub date: December 10, 2013 Bakery owner Maeve Conlon is the divorced mother of two teenaged girls. She’s also the daughter of an Alzheimer’s-stricken ex-cop who’s a prime suspect in the death of her cousin Sean. Sean was a despicable human...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 1, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Minotaur Books Pub date: November 5, 2013 Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson is three months married, five months pregnant, and in danger of losing her job. Her husband, police chief Russ Van Alstyne, bitterly resents his new wife, has absolutely no desire to be a...
