This is the first book in this series. I found these books because it was clear other series’s I was reading referenced it. So I had to read it. Dr. Bill Brockton is a professor, but he also has quite… Read More ›
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Book: The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lillian Jackson Braun
This time Qwill and Koko are not alone. They’ve got a new team mate Yum Yum. She’s a female Siamese. Qwill is now covering Junktown with a series of pieces. The inhabitants of the area are quite eccentric to say… Read More ›
Book: Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston
This is an action adventure thriller with a new theory on the dinosaurs extinction. The adventure begins on the moon with a strange crater. Lunar Sample 480 is bagged because it looks like it contains a sample of the object… Read More ›
Book: The Sinner [Rizzoli and Isles #3] by Tess Gerritsen
A savage attack at a convent leaves one nun dead and another in critical condition. When Maura does the autopsy of the murdered nun, she is quite shocked to learn she was pregnant. So how did she get pregnant? Was… Read More ›
Book: Stone of Destiny by Thor Stonewell
This book starts out with a man on a cliff. He chooses to jump off the cliff to his own death rather than tell his kidnappers how to find what they seek. Enter Trevor Emerson. An unsuspecting American who happens… Read More ›
Book: C is for Corpse [Kinsey Millhone #3] by Sue Grafton
Kinsey is hired by 23 year old Bobby Callahan to solve his attempted murder. Bobby is lucky to be alive. He was driving his Porsche over a bridge when someone rammed into him causing he and his car to fly… Read More ›
Book: Retirement Can Be Murder by Phil Edwards
Jake Russo is a New York reporter. However, his boss turns his life upside down when he reassigns him to a Florida retirement community. Writing about bridge and shuffleboard games is not what he had hoped for. Neither is his… Read More ›
Book: Manhattans and Murder by Jessica Fletcher
Jessica takes a trip to Manhattan to promote her newest book. While strolling down the street she runs into a Santa Claus. However, she knows this man. He’s from Cabot Cove. This Santa happens to be one of the town’s… Read More ›
Book: Secret of the Sands by Rai Aren
This book creates an exciting mystery. It mixes modern day Egypt with Ancient Egypt approximately 12,000 B.C. On a dig site at the Sphinx Alexandra and Mitch, both archaeologists, make a startling discovery. They find a chest that has three… Read More ›
Book: Strawberry Shortcake Murder [Hannah Swensen #2] by Joanne Fluke
Hannah has been asked to be a judge in a four day bake off challenge. However, after day one Coach Boyd Watson turns up murdered. Is Hannah jinxed? When the coach’s wife becomes the prime suspect, Hannah jumps into to prove… Read More ›
Book: Two for the Dough [Stephanie Plum #2] by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie is back at the bounty hunting game. But this time she’s brought her Grandma with her. The funeral home will never be the same once Grandma Mazur starts attending viewings like they are movies. Hopefully, all the bodies remain… Read More ›
Book: Body of Evidence [Kay Scarpetta #2] by Patricia Cornwell
Dr. Kay Scarpetta has a new case. A famous writer was murdered in her own home. She writes letters to an “M.” As the mystery unravels Kay learns more and more about the deceased. As she gets closer to solving the… Read More ›
Book: Death Du Jour [Bones #2] by Kathy Reichs
Dr. Brennan is called up to dig up a deceased nun who is up for sainthood: Sister Elisabeth Nicolet. Her small coffin is buried in the recesses in an old decaying church. She also has to deal with burned bodies recovered… Read More ›
Book: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
This book is all about how Sherlock Holmes thinks. Lot’s of examples that relate to his thought processes in the stories about him are referenced. It covers all different aspects of Sherlock Holmes and how he sees and processes things…. Read More ›
Book: The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern [The Cat Who, Book #2] by Lillian Jackson Braun
Jim Qwilleran gets assigned a new beat: interior design. He will be writing a weekly article for Gracious Abodes. He’ll also have a new photographer, Odd Bunsen. The first house he goes to for the magazine has a jade collection…. Read More ›
Book: The Apprentice [Rizzoli and Isles, Book #2] by Tess Gerritsen
Wealthy men’s wives are being kidnapped, brutalized and murdered during a hot Boston summer. Only one conclusion can be drawn. That it is the work of serial killer Warren Hoyt. Thankfully, he’s in jail after his prior escapes. Is this… Read More ›
Book: The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster by Lyle Blackburn
I firmly believe that “Bigfoot” exists. We discover new species every day which is means anything is possible. This book is a documentary of the making of The Beast of Boggy Creek movie. It covers all the sightings, interviews and… Read More ›
Book: Naked Heat [Nikki Heat #2] by Richard Castle
I know many people watch the TV show and don’t want anything to do with these books, but I love these books. I can only describe Rook and Heat’s interactions as what we’d really like to see on the TV… Read More ›
Book: B is for Burglar [Kinsey Millhone #2] by Sue Grafton
When your client makes you immediately suspicious, do you take the case? Beverly Danziger hires Kinsey to find her missing sister, Elaine Boldt. She has some documents that she needs her sister to sign regarding an inheritance. Kinsey’s investigation turns… Read More ›
Book: Murder She Wrote: Gin and Daggers #1
This is the first book of this series. These are cozy mysteries. But just like in the tv show, wherever she goes someone seems to die. In this novel, she travels to London for a mystery writers convention. Her friend… Read More ›