by Diana Renn | Aug 15, 2024 | Author Workspaces, Features
A fun fact I learned when researching my latest eco-mystery for children, The Owl Prowl Mystery, is that great horned owls don’t make their own nests. Instead, they often take over the nests of other birds or squirrels. I thought of great horned owls when I became...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 13, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
A is for Amish Amish ABCs Book 1 Shelley Shepard Gray Kensington Pub June 25th, 2024 A is for Amish by Shelley Shepard Gray has a premise where four English siblings with Amish grandparents are seriously thinking of becoming Amish. They are discontent with their...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 11, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
The Rose Arbor Rhys Bowen Lake Union Publishing August 6th, 2024 The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen is more of a suspenseful novel that a historical one. There is a mystery, but also a dose of romance along with the serious topic of memory loss. The book opens in London...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 9, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
This is Why We Lied Will Trent Book 12 Karin Slaughter William Morrow Pub August 20th, 2024 This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter is a book that has all the trademarks including twists, and intensity. A word of warning there is child abuse, domestic violence, brutal...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 7, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
An Amish Country Reunion Her Pretend Amish Beau Patricia Johns An Amish Country Reunion by Patricia Johns centers around two people and one very special dog. The heroine, Trooper Genevieve Austin, arrives at the State Police K9 Training Center. She learns that she’ll...
by Leslie Budewitz | Aug 6, 2024 | Features
I fell in love with Seattle’s Pike Place Market as a college kid, not long after the voters saved it from destruction, and made it my mission in life to eat my way through it. It’s constantly changing, so I’ll never be done! As a student and then as a young lawyer...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 3, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Echoes of Memory Sara Driscoll Kensington Pub July 23rd, 2024 Echoes of Memory by Sara Driscoll is a mystery that explores memory loss. Readers will learn about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) throughout the story as the author incorporates it into the character’s life....
by Elise Cooper | Aug 2, 2024 | Author Interviews, Features
Ambush in the Mountains Mary Alford Love Inspired Pub July 23rd, 2024 Ambush in the Mountains by Mary Alford a story of second chances, forgiveness, self-healing, compassion, unbridled trust, friendship, love, and redemption. As with most of her books she uses the...
by Adam Mitzner | Aug 1, 2024 | Features, Five Things
“There’s no place like home,” Dorothy said. But Thomas Wolfe said, “You can’t go home again.” Are both true? Is neither? I’m fascinated by home – the actual place and the people that embody it. I believe that home is like that parable about a river, how you can never...
by Yasmin Angoe | Aug 1, 2024 | Crimespree Cooks, Features
Jac Brodie and her family in Not What She Seems are from Brook Haven, a fictional town nestled in the Lowcountry swamps, marshes, woods, and coast of South Carolina near Charleston, South Carolina. Immersed throughout these towns up and down the Atlantic coast is a...