We follow the characters in this book from 1906 to 1953 in London, England where Papa Jack’s Emporium is located.  This magic toy shop opens with the first frost of winter and closes when the first snow drop appears, usually sometime in January.  At the age of fifteen, Cathy Wray leaves home and finds a... Continue Reading →

Whenever I would see a sticker on a book or a blurb that would say something like “the next Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” or “the next Harry Potter”, I wouldn’t even pick those books up because I have found that generally the hype never lives up to the expectations and that they are no... Continue Reading →

A novelist goes missing and his wife hires Cormoran Strike to locate him.  That is the basic premise of this book, however, for me it was all about the growing relationship between Robin and Cormoran.  I cannot believe how much I am enjoying this series since I really had no intention of reading it and... Continue Reading →

This novella brings us back into the world of the Parasol Protectorate series and its characters Biffy and Randolph Lyall, both werewolves.  The novella takes place about twenty years after the Parasol series and we find out that Biffy and Lyall have been separated for all those years and that Biffy is now the Alpha... Continue Reading →

I think the best description I can give of this book is that it is a mystery set in the art world of Los Angeles. Kim Lord is an artist who has created a series of paintings that depict high profile murders of women over the decades (e.g. Nicole Brown Simpson, Chandra Levy, the Black... Continue Reading →

This is the first book in the “Winter” series featuring the Quinn family.   Kelly Quinn owns the Winter Street Inn in Nantucket.  He has three grown children with his first wife, Margaret Quinn, who is a famous television anchor for CBS and is currently married to Mitzi his second wife, with whom they have a... Continue Reading →

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  It will be published November 27, 2018. Claire and Matt are divorced and they have a young daughter, Scarlett.  Matt is now partners with Alex and Claire is with Patrick but it has been suggested that for the benefit of Scarlett, they should... Continue Reading →

This is the third novella in the “murder-bot” series and it is just as good a read as it’s predecessors.  In this outing, Murder-Bot travels to another location to gather evidence that the GrayCris corporation violated laws respecting alien remnants.  Sadly, the ART character from the second novella is not in this book but we... Continue Reading →

  This is book number 22 in the long-standing Rebus series by Ian Rankin.  Several books ago, Rebus retired but, thankfully, Rankin keeps bringing him back to tell new stories. As in the other books in the series, we get to spend time with Rebus, Siobhan Clarke, Malcolm Fox and Cafferty, the mob boss that... Continue Reading →