Reading Excursions

  MY REVIEW   Paperback:  320 pages Publisher:  Kensington (February 23, 2021) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1496725190 ISBN-13:  978-1496725190   “Sixteen years ago, a teenaged Will Sterling saw—or rather, heard—the girl of his dreams. Standing beneath an apartment building balcony, he shared a perfect moment with a lovely, warm-voiced stranger. It’s a memory that’s never faded, though he’s put so much of his past behind him. Now an unexpected inheritance has brought Will back to that same address, where he plans to offload his new property and get back to his regular life as an overworked doctor. Instead, he encounters a woman, two balconies above, who’s uncannily familiar . . .    No matter how surprised Nora Clarke is by her reaction to handsome, curious Will, or the whispered pre-dawn conversations they share, she won’t let his plans ruin her quirky, close-knit building. Bound by her loyalty to her adored grandmother, she s...

  MY REVIEW   Series:  (Book #1 – Untitled Series) Hardcover:  368 pages Publisher:  Kensington (December 29, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1496731514 ISBN-13:  978-1496731517 Click Picture for Purchase Information   “ Set in a charming British village during World War II, Stephanie Graves' new charming historical mystery introduces Olive Bright, a spirited young pigeon fancier who finds herself at the heart of a baffling murder... Though war rages across mainland Europe and London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Adrift since her best friend, George, joined the Royal Air Force, twenty-two-year-old Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her beloved racing pigeons. Desperate to do her bit, Olive hopes that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained bir...

  MY REVIEW     Paperback:  322 pages Publisher:  Rippling Effects (September 9, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1989144128 ISBN-13:  978-1989144121 Click Picture for Purchase Information   “Separated by a century. Bonded by loss. Will examining all that was invoke comfort or calamity?   Seattle, 2015. Emily Reed refuses to dwell on her emotions. When the first-year attorney is assigned a church archival project, she dives into the records to hide from her own heartache. But when she discovers her parents were married in this very chapel, she is forced to confront the grief she buried a decade ago. After she died in 1935, Elizabet Thomas was devastated when her beloved husband wasn’t waiting for her on the other side. A lost soul, she’s wandered their church for the past eighty years, desperate to find him. And now she must persuade a young, living lawyer that the historic building needs to be preserved rather than sold and to...

MY REVIEW Series: Honey Creek (Book #1) Paperback:  320 pages Publisher:  Zebra (May 26, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10: 1420151282 ISBN-13:  978-1420151282 Click Picture for Purchase Information “ Piper Jane Mackenzie, mayor of Honey Creek, won’t let a major scandal rip her quirky hometown apart, or jeopardize her dream of one day running for higher office. So she’s willing to welcome undercover detective Colby McBride, hired to help solve the mystery behind her wannabe fiancé’s disappearance. Colby’s cover? That he is an old boyfriend now begging Piper for a second chance—always when there are plenty of townsfolk around to witness his shenanigans. Piper hardly knows whether to laugh or cry, especially when she finds herself drawn to the handsome rascal. He's not the only newcomer she has to deal with. There’s a new interim preacher in town, Sam Cassidy. Drifting from one assignment to another since his one love died, Sam isn...

MY REVIEW Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Citadel (April 28, 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 0806539976 ISBN-13: 978-0806539973 Click Picture for Purchase Link “ In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me , bestselling author Leslie Rule delivers a riveting true story for our time—as she exposes the years-long trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer at the dark heart of a real-life fatal attraction . . . It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska.   Cari, thirty-seven, was a devoted mother, reliable employee, and loyal friend—not the type to shirk responsibilities, abandon her son, and run off on an adventure while her dying father took his last breaths.   Yet, the many texts from her phone indicated she had done just that. It appeared that Cari had dumped her new boyfriend, quit her job, and relinquished custody of her son to her mothe...