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The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

Spooky Sleuths & Haunted Mystery Author: Alice Kimberly The recently widowed Penelope Thornton-McClure has decided to do what she never could when her husband was alive: run from his opulent and controlling family and start her own life. It’s certainly not easy, nor are her complicated feelings about widowhood. Now that she is in the tiny town of Proofrock, living out her dream of running a bookstore with her Aunt Sadie, she thinks perhaps with time and patience, this new life will help her heal wounds and move on. That is . . . until a famous novelist comes to her [...]

Frances Carden2023-01-14T19:14:05-07:00January 14th, 2023|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, ghost, mystery, read, reading|

My Heart is a Chainsaw

“Is it really winning if everybody dies?” Author: Stephen Graham Jones Jade Daniels is your proverbial, never-going-to-fit in teenager living in a small town. She’s stigmatized both by her heritage and her abusive, shiftless father. So, she seeks solace in the only place that she can find: bloody, eviscerating, slasher horror. Part of this horror obsession, of course, is a survival instinct. If you cannot escape the darkness, you might as well love it. Another part of the fixation is a hope for salvation through revenge. After all, every slasher out there has a backstory, and most of those stories show [...]

Frances Carden2023-01-10T18:52:18-07:00January 10th, 2023|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, slasher|

Bon Bon Voyage

High Seas and Shenanigans Author: Nancy Fairbanks What’s better than eating the finest cuisine and indulging in the most decadent kind of luxury? Eating and luxuriating on a boat! At least, that’s what Carolyn Blue, food writer, thinks. Thanks to some good luck and a few pulled strings, she now has a free Mother’s Day trip on The Bountiful Feast. All she must do is write a few columns and eat, eat, eat. Things start to go sour, however, when her husband says he can’t be her plus one for the voyage. Through comedic miscommunication and some bad luck, however, Carolyn’s [...]

Frances Carden2023-01-09T20:58:33-07:00January 9th, 2023|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, reading|