Seventeen years ago, a teenager, Jean Timberlake was murdered. Her body was found in small town named Floral Beach. She was found on the beach itself. No one batted an eyelash when Bailey Fowler confessed to the murder and was… Read More ›
Books
Book: The Maltese Goddess by Lyn Hamilton (Archaeological Mysteries, 2)
Lara heads off to the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. Her client has a house there and she has to get everything set up so it’s ready to move in to. What should seem like a nice, warm vacation… Read More ›
Book: Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat #5) By Richard Castle
Nikki is picking up right where we left her. She’s still hot on the trail of her Mom’s murderer. She’s pursuing a former CIA station chief. He’s the man who gave the order to have her mother executed. Nikki brings… Read More ›
Book: Martinis and Mayhem (Murder, She Wrote #5) by Jessica Fletcher
Jessica is in San Francisco to promote her latest book. While touring the city she goes to a women’s prison, a high school and walks the Golden Gate Bridge. While she is enjoying all the sites she learns of a… Read More ›
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4) by J.K. Rowling
Harry is stuck with the Dursleys again for the summer. The Weasleys send an actual letter to them to ask permission to take Harry to the Quidditch Cup. They hesitantly agree because while they don’t want Harry to be happy,… Read More ›
Book: Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke (Hannah Swensen #5)
Hannah seems to be a murder magnet. Not her own death, just those around her. Or maybe Lake Eden just has an above average murder rate for small town. Her Cookie Jar is popular. Andrea, her sister, is pregnant and… Read More ›
Book: High Five by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum #5)
Stephanie’s Uncle Fred has disappeared and then a body turns up in a garbage bag. Her Grandma Mazur has bought a stun gun that she is itching to stun someone with. She only has one jumper to catch and he’s… Read More ›
Book: The Bone Thief (Body Farm #5) by Jefferson Bass
Dr. Brockton is asked to take a DNA sample from a buried body for a paternity test. He and his assistant, Miranda Lovelady, go to the exhumation to take the sample. When the casket is opened they can’t believe what… Read More ›
Book: The Body Farm (Dr. Kay Scarpetta, #5) by Patricia Cornwell
Is Temple Gault back? The murder assigned to Dr. Kay Scarpetta would certainly make you think so. This time an eleven year old girl has been murdered. Lucy is now an intern with the FBI and this coincides with Kay… Read More ›
Book: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs (Bones #5)
Temperance Brennan and a team are in Guatemala recovering the remains of 23 murder victims in the bottom of a well. These people were viciously murdered 20 years ago. It’s heartbreaking excavating these people. What’s worse is those who are… Read More ›
Book: Ground Zero (The X-Files #3) by Kevin J. Anderson
A man seeks revenge for the annihilation of his entire tribe and culture. They were all destroyed by nuclear bomb testing. He barely survived as a child. Now, Mulder and Scully are going to a secret base in California where… Read More ›
Book: The Cat Who Played Brahms by Lillian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who #5)
Qwill wants a break from the big city. Aunt Fannie overs to let him use her cabin in Moose County. He wants to write a crime novel. However, the country is very, very different from the city. He takes up… Read More ›
Vanish By Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli and Isles 5)
Maura is overwhelmed by bodies coming into her morgue from an accident. Once she is finally done and preparing to leave she hears a sound from the freezer. When she finally checks it out she discovers one of the victims… Read More ›
Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkeban by JK Rowling (Harry Potter #3)
Harry’s summer goes from bad to worse when he learns that Aunt Marge is coming for a week. At the final dinner, he loses his temper and she turns into a giant balloon. Fearing the worst, he collects his belongings… Read More ›
Book: E is for Evidence [Kinsey Millhone #5] by Sue Grafton
Kinsey is having a trying holiday season. Her ex-husband has popped into town. California Fidelity offers her a nice distraction, an arson case. But it all spirals out of control. Somehow $5,000 gets deposited into her checking out, but she… Read More ›
Book: The Xibalba Murders (Lara McClintoch Archaeological Mystery #1) by Lyn Hamilton
Lara McClintoch is newly divorced from her now ex-husband and ex-business partner Clive. To relax and recover from the loss of her marriage and business she takes a trip to Mexico. She’s going to meet an older archaeologist who she… Read More ›
Book: Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass (Body Farm #4)
This book left me speechless. Clearly, my high school history class left a lot out. Dr. Brockton is called to Oak Ridge to assist with removal of a body from a frozen pool. The victim turns out to be Leonard… Read More ›
Book: Frozen Heat (Nikki Heat #4) by Richard Castle
The crime scene is something out of a horror movie. A woman is stuffed in a suitcase. She was stabbed to death. Nikki Heat has been assigned the case. But things get interesting when this case links to her mother’s… Read More ›
Book: Brandy and Bullets (Murder, She Wrote #4) by Jessica Fletcher
Cabot Cove is rocked to the core. The Worrell Institute has been sold to investors. They convert it to an art colony. The citizens of Cabot Cove are afraid the artists will ruin their town. Everything is going smoothly until… Read More ›
Book: Whirlwind (X-Files #2) by Charles Grant
A woman who owns a ranch stumbles across a pair of bodies. The fact that they are bodies is all that she can make out. Mulder and Scully are brought in to figure out what happened. While in town nothing… Read More ›