In the first installment of Mischief Mayhem Want and Woe, Brent Michael Kelley unleashes the horrors of Desecration on Stagwater.
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Robin Nolet’s book starts out with a very applicable quote from Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same circle. We never would have chosen these neighbors; life chose them for us. But thrown together on this island of living, we stretch to understand each other, and are invigorated by the stretching. In The Shell Keeper, the island is the Colorado skiing town of Blue River and the shells tossed on the beach are Gwen, Claire, and Del. Thrown together by tides they cannot fathom, the women find a common thread that brings them together as friends despite their best intentions to remain strangers.
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LLBR’s first Spot Light On! An Impossible Dream Story by J.V. Petretta… It all started with a bicycle trip. In 1995, I was in the middle of a 5,000 mile bicycle journey to raise awareness and funding for AIDS, when I was invited to stay overnight with a family in South Bend, Indiana. The lady of the house was a nurse for the local AIDS Agency, my connection.
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In THE SAINTMAKER by Mary Carroll Patrick, the murder is introduced in the opening pages, solved at the very end of the novel. In between, evidence is uncovered slowly, cumulatively. Tension builds. The protagonist worries. The authorities rant. Suspects and action abound.
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Every once in a while there’s a book that almost gets away, especially when you are like me and read and review mostly indie or small press titles. I just can’t read them all. That’s almost what happened to Lara McLaughlin’s Alabaster Houses which was first queried to me last October. Other reviewers passed on it, but there was something in this book that made me pick it. And now I’m glad I did.
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Britannia, 61 A.D. For ten years, Taras has lived in the young city of Londinium, feeding off the city’s underbelly. But now Theron, his old enemy, has come looking for revenge, and Taras’ nights of living in relative peace are about to end.
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I first became a fan of author C.V. Hunt after reading and reviewing her Endlessly vampire series. I was delighted to read her new novella, Danse Macabre, when she inquired. The description above leads you to believe it would fall in the genre of zombie fiction, of which I know C.V. reads a lot of so it’s easy to guess she would be inspired by such. I myself am not a big fan, though I love watching AMC’s The Walking Dead, but I was willing to give her new book a try since I was already familiar with her writing style.
This was pitched as a humorous take on a science fiction story and while parts of it are very funny and have a nice bite to them, the story goes on way too long. I had a lot of trouble finishing the book and put it down several times.
I think I’ve said this before, but I love mysteries. I cut my reading teeth on the cozies of Agatha Christie — I have read every single one more times than I or anyone else can count — and it didn’t stop there.
What happens when resources become scarce and society starts to crumble? As the competition for resources pulls America’s previous stable society apart, the “New Normal” is a Soft Apocalypse. This is how our world ends; with a whimper instead of a bang.
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C.V. reviews Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley
Shannon reviews The Boston 395 by Jason Derr
Susan reviews Appraisal for Murder by Elaine Orr
C.V. reviews Hellwatch by Larime Taylor (February's 1st review)
Jaime reviews The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt
Susan reviews Dark Mind by Jennifer Chase
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