There just aren’t enough books set during modern times that happen to be Japanese American! Japanese culture comes through a veil of humor, making this similar to the Alvin Ho series by Lenore Look. In this first book, Jasmine is too young to participate in the New Year’s mochi ...
Hundreds of graduates turned up for this wonderful event, many a bit shattered to realize how those 50 years had sped by and how the aging process is no joke! Regardless, it was a fantastic weekend of reminiscing and seeing how the college goes along so well in the 2020s. My own involv...
Ezra had to completely reinvent himself from being a popular athletic kid after the accident that shattered his leg and revealed how little he could depend on his so called friends. He found his way to a group of kids who helped him realize there was more he wanted out of life than party...
Previously I’ve waxed lyrical about Lucinda Riley’sSeven Sisters series on this blog. Tragically, Lucinda died in 2021 and the final book in that series was completed by her son, Harry Whittaker. I’ve now read, and thoroughly enjoyed, one of Lucinda’s earlier books,The Midnight Rose. ...
Enraged, she switches into attack mode, only to end up a moment later flat on her back, her robe caught up in a briar bush, the pint shattered and spilled on the sidewalk. This is just the first in a series of unexpected events that, over the course of a week, both throw Eva’s...
“It must have hit her cellphone.” John handed Kirk a plastic-wrapped iPhone with a dazzling pink case. “She must’ve been holding the phone to her ear when the bullet exited. We found the phone on the car floor between the two back seats. Screen’s shattered, phone’s dead.” ...
The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial. With secrets come the lies each of the girls is forced to confront. After caring for ...
She and her sister Jessica were in their bedroom and the windows blew out, the dressing table mirror was shattered, and the sky was red and filled with flames.’We threw ourselves down on the floor and prayed’, she said ‘We thought the end of the world had come’. Not having the ...
Bury the Lead By Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti $17.99, Spiderline In this launch of a new cozy mystery series, a big-city journalist heads to a small town with her dreams of ink-stained glory all but shattered. Cat Conway is reduced to working at the tinyQuill & Packet,a local ...
If like me, you are a big fan ofMick Herron’s writing, but are not quite up-to-date with his iconic Slough House series, then his 2023 new releaseThe Secret Hourscould be perfect for you. This standalone spy thriller centres on Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, two civil servants secon...