Cooking with Crimespree: Katy Hays

Cooking with Crimespree: Katy Hays

Capri is known for its lemons. Capri is so known for its lemons, in fact, that their presence can occasionally feel comical. Lemons are inescapable: they decorate windows and droop from arbors, they’re used as centerpieces on café tables and illustrations on menus,...
INTERVIEW WITH RENEE RYAN

INTERVIEW WITH RENEE RYAN

The Last Fashion House in Paris Renee Ryan Love Inspired Dec 24th, 2024 The Last Fashion House in Paris, by Renee Ryan, is a companion novel to both The Widows of Champagne and The Paris Housekeeper. This story is more historical suspense than romance and the...
Book Review: A Girl Like Us

Book Review: A Girl Like Us

Pitched as Succession meets Saltburn, Anna Sophia McLoughlin’s A Girl Like Us will appeal to fans of Rachel Hawkins and twisty thrillers featuring wealthy, dysfunctional families.  In this solid debut, sexy reality-star-turned-entrepreneur Maya Miller has...
Book Review: A Girl Like Us

Book Review–THE OTHER PEOPLE

C.B. Everett’s locked room mystery, The Other People, pays clear homage to the great Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, directly citing to the author (and/or that work) a total of six times. But, as the idiom goes, “often imitated, never...
INTERVIEW WITH SANDRA BROWN

INTERVIEW WITH SANDRA BROWN

Blood Moon Book 1 Sandra Brown Grand Central Publishing March 4th, 2025 Blood Moon by Sandra Brown has her usual style.  The plot is intense, dark, and raw, intertwined with a love story that includes sexual scenes, where the chemistry between the hero and...
INTERVIEW WITH ALYSSA MAXWELL

INTERVIEW WITH ALYSSA MAXWELL

Two Weddings and A Murder A Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Book 9 Alyssa Maxwell Kensington Pub Feb 25th, 2025 Two Weddings and A Murder by Alyssa Maxwell is a great historical cozy mystery. Readers will be sad to learn this is the last book in the series. The book...
The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins

The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins

One of the most enjoyable — and prevalent — tropes in crime fiction is what one might call, “the Jack Reacher variation,” aka the lone avenger/slayer of scum, if you will. This subgenre crosses with others, including westerns, PI novels. Various crime...