I live in Southern California, with my husband, in a house that is way too small for us, our pets and our hobbies. One problem with the size of this house is it doesn’t hold enough books. For us, books are a priority.
High Rhymes and Misdemeanors by Diana Killian
Grace Hollister is there on vacation from her teaching position at St. Anne’s Academy for Girls in Los Angeles, and to do research for her doctoral dissertation on the poets of the Romantic period. If you think that sounds like a tame, pastoral and rather too academic stroll, this mystery will surprise you from the first sentence, when Grace Hollister finds a man lying face down in a stream, left for dead by an unknown assailant.
To Wear The White Cloak by Sharan Newman
A good book pulls you in and holds your attention through the story so well that, when it ends, you want more.
Sharan Newman’s To Wear the White Cloak held me this way.
Before I Say Goodbye by Mary Higgins Clark
Before I Say Goodbye by Mary Higgins Clark started out slow for me, mainly because I don’t consider politicians all that intriguing. However, I kept reading and I’m glad I did.
He Shall Thunder In The Sky by Elizabeth Peters
He Shall Thunder In The Sky was the second of Elizabeth Peters’ books that I’ve read . . .
Canis by Robert E. Armstrong
In Canis, by Robert E. Armstrong, the head of Houston’s Bureau of Animal Regulation & Care is Dr. Duncan MacDonell, a man of compassion, intelligence and common sense who’s already doing what anyone will recognize as a difficult, depressing, and thankless job. Then street people begin to turn up dead…
Hair Raiser by Nancy J. Cohen
Marla Shore has been helping her cousin Cynthia organize Taste of the World, a benefit for Ocean Guard. The experience becomes a Hair Raiser for Marla, when the chefs she’s recruited are frightened out of participating. Marla needs to know who is sabotaging the gala event.
Beacon Street Mourning by Dianne Day
In Beacon Street Mourning, Fremont Jones, suspicious her ailing father is being neglected by his wife Augusta, returns to Boston to see him. Her father begins to improve, then suddenly dies. Fremont must solve what she believes to be murder by poison, while others, including his doctor, contend that her father died of natural causes.