reviews

Moonshine and Murder Author: Sherryl Woods Investigative reporter Amanda Roberts loves a good story and an even better mystery. Plucky, daring, more than a little sarcastic, ruggedly determined to buck all rules, Amanda is an unstoppable force only faintly tamed by her loving husband and recently adopted teenage son. When elderly Miss Martha, a long-time society dame with big money and even bigger influence, calls up Amanda for a final favor, enter the story of a lifetime. Only – can and should Amanda help? Miss Martha is an old friend, yet her deathbed request has strings and Amanda’s husband is [...]

The Beginning of an Atmospheric and Powerful Mystery Series Author: Dawn Lee McKenna On a beautiful beach as the tide swells and the sun bronzes the water a lone man stares contemplatively over the ocean and then shoots himself in the head. Hours later, there are police, a body bag, shards of brain fragments, and finally, the phone call that sets it rolling. For all of these years, Maggie has tried to forget Gregory Boudreaux even though he keeps coming back to her in dreams, startling her awake, making her scream and reach for her gun. Now, while the town wonders [...]

Who Are We Really? Author: Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro has long been self-aware. She is a memoirist after all. She has even shared her painful transition away from her upbringing in Orthodox Judaism with us. Settling into who she is and what she believes only provides flitting, false security though. A chance DNA test – one of those ubiquitous discover-your-family-tree packages so prevalent online – reveals that what she thought she knew is all wrong. She is not her father’s daughter. Her sister is not, biologically, her sibling. She is not 100% Ashkenazi Jew, as she had always been told, [...]