Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Books Read - June 2018

Annino, Barbara
Bloodstone ***
Fiction.  Second in the Stacy Justice paranormal cozy mystery series.  A young woman arrives in town and announces to Stacy that they’re sisters.  Stacy’s mother disappeared after her father died, and Stacy was raised by her grandmother and aunts at their bed and breakfast.  When the young woman is kidnapped, Stacy learns that she is part of a trio of people assigned to protect the Blessed Book, and Stacy must find and protect the girl.

Bury, Scott
The Three-Way ****
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Van Freeman is out to take down another human trafficker, but when he’s caught and beaten, it looks like the end is near.  Robert Maxim and Van’s friend, Earl, are doing the best to extract him, but he might have to rely on the help of two drones to save his life.

The Wife Line ****
Fiction.  Book in the Sidney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Sydney is working for Elite Forces in Europe when she assigned to find out if an employee of a company has been stealing company funds or has been doing anything else nefariously.  She meets Van, who is tracing a line of human traffickers and whose case is intermingled with Sydney’s.  They travel from country to country to stop these men and to release the women and others who are being held by them.

Carey, Ella
The Things We Don’t Say ***
Fiction.  The love affair between two painters sets the scene for this story.  The man is gay, but he is in love with his female friend, who happens to be married to a man who is cheating on her.  A painting is used for collateral for a student loan, but when an art dealer claims the painting is a forgery, the bank recalls the loan, and the student does her best to prove the painting is real.

Epperson, S.K.
Green Lake *****
Fiction.  Madelaine Heron’s husband committed suicide, and she has left her job as a college professor to spend the summer at her sister’s cabin at Green Lake.  A Native American conservation officer lives in the next cabin, and they strike up a cautious acquaintance.  Crime is rampant at the lake this summer, and Madelaine and Eris have troubles of their own.

Ernst, Kathleen
Old World Murder ****
Fiction.  First in the Chloe Ellefson mystery series.  Chloe has a job as head of collections at Old World Wisconsin, an historic museum.  One her first day, an elderly woman begs her to find an old ale bowl that the woman had donated years ago.  Chloe promises to look for it, but as the woman signed it over to the historical society, she wouldn’t be able to get it back.  One the way home from work Chloe sees the old woman’s car overturned at the side of the road with the woman dead inside.  Her promise guides her actions as she struggles to find the missing item.

Finsilver, Janet
Murder at Redwood Cove ****
Fiction.  First in the Kelly Jackson cozy mystery series.  Kelly’s new assignment is running the B&B in Redwood Cove, because the previous manager fell down a cliff and died.  Whether it was an accident or murder is anyone’s guess, but when things go missing at the inn, Kelly is convinced the two incidents are related.

George, Kate
Moonlighting in Vermont ****
Fiction.  First in the Bree MacGowan cozy mystery series set in Vermont.  Bree works two jobs, as a typesetter at the local paper and as a part time housekeeper at the fancy resort.  When she finds her boss dead, Bree suddenly becomes one of the main suspects, and she has to fight her way to prove her innocence.

Gilbert, Julie C.
Fatal Interest ***
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Sydney has taken a P.I. job posing as a House Mother at a prestigious boarding school to help solve vandalism going on at the school.  A ghost tells her something is wrong and continues to give her messages during the case.  A young girl has been kidnapped, and Sydney and Blue stop the criminals.

Gladden, DelSheree
The Catalyst ****
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Hugh is still suffering over James’ death, but when a friend asks him to sub for her at a cooking school, he’s willing to give it a shot.  He meets a young girl who wants to help her friend find his sister.  Hugh brings Mulberry in to help.

Hamilton, Victoria
A Deadly Grind ****
Fiction.  First in the Victorian Kitchen cozy mystery series.  Jaymie Leighton buys an antique Hoosier cabinet at auction and parks it on her summer porch until she can make room for it in her kitchen.  When she hears noises in the middle of the night, she sees that someone has broken into the porch, upset the cartons of cookware she purchased at the auction, and has left a dead body behind.  The mystery of what is so special about the cabinet evolves, and more dead bodies are found around town.

Harkness, Deborah
The Book of Life *****
Fiction.  Third in the All Souls trilogy.  Diana and Matthew are readying themselves to face Benjamin, and Baldwin selects Diana to represent the de Clermonts at the Congretation.  She must prove to them that the covenant against different creatures mingling should be abolished.  Their twins are proving to be a blend of vampire and witch, and there are still enemies who are coming after them.

A Discovery of Witches *****
Fiction.  First in the All Souls trilogy.  Diana Bishop is a visiting professor at Oxford studying medieval alchemy.  She is also a witch.  Matthew Clairmont is a doctor and scientist also working at Oxford.  He is also a vampire.  Unknown to Diana, she uncovers an ancient manuscript that many are searching for, including Matthew.  Their forbidden relationship leads them far into the past, and right into danger.

Shadow of Night *****
Fiction.  Second in the All Souls trilogy.  Diana and Matthew have time traveled back to 1590 in search of the alchemical manuscript that might or might not describe how the three otherworldly races, witch, vampire, daemon, began.

Harlow, Jennifer
Nemesis ***
Fiction.  In the Sydney Rye Kindle World.  Independence is a town with masked auperheroes who work in and out of the law to bring justice for the innocent.  

Kimelman, Emily
It Takes Two ****
Fiction.  First in the Jet thriller series, book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Sydney is assigned to protect a Texan oil man and his family while they are on vacation on the Amazon.  Jet is assigned to kill him.  The two women find themselves intrigued with the other, and they end up working together while trying to stay clear of the other killers in the picture.

Kuhn, N.
The Storybook Murders ***
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  David is a young detective whose mother was killed by the Storybook Killer.  When he and his partner are assigned a murder, it is another of the Storybook murders, and a freelance author assists in solving the case.

Land Anthony
Idiot’s Tale ****
Fiction.  Prequel to the Nemesis Investigations books.  Morgana has been kidnapped and ended up in the office of John Rainwater, P.I.. She hires him to find out why she was kidnapped, but when her father finds out, he cancels that contract and hires John to keep his daughter safe.  They meet ex-Mossad officer, Roni Miller, who uses them to destroy the plot of international criminals who have planted a nuclear reactor on a ship and docked it in New Orleans.

A Private Affair at the Green Hell Hotel ****
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Morgana and Lorena have fallen in love, though they/re trying to keep it quiet.  Morgana has made a deal with Joyful Justice to occasionally work in tandem on missions.  A Consortium is trying to take over, and they target Robert Maxim’s defunct hotel in Costa Rica where the full council of Joyful will be celebrating the reopening of the hotel.  But Joyful has a surprise waiting for the Consortium that will destroy their plans.

The Shrike ****
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Morgana Trehane is a billionaire who uses her inheritance to set up an international intelligence agency.  Their first case involves a serial killer who is targeting old Russian spies in America.  Morgana carefully gathers a team of experts to begin their investigation.

Maher, Tegan
The Deadly Daiquiri ****
Fiction.  First in the Enchanted Coast Magical Mystery series.  Destiny is a waitress at the tiki bar at a magical resort on the Gulf Coast when she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her unlikable boss, a fallen angel.  In order to save her own skin, she starts investigating and finds herself becoming enamored of a mysterious werewolf who never seems to tell the whole truth.

Sweet Murder ***
Fiction.  Firs tin the Witches of Keyhole Lake paranormal cozy mystery series.  Noelle lives with her younger sister, a miniature donkey, and an expired aunt.  She works as a waitress serving up BBQ, but when the most hated man in town dies face first into a plate of coleslaw, she becomes one of the prime suspects.

Pawlish, Renee
Walk Softly, Danger ***
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Reed Ferguson is a P.I. in Denver who gets involved in a case of human trafficking that has also drawn Sydney Rye’s attention.  Together they solve the case.

Petterson, Bev 
Strange Behavior ****
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Sydney and Blue are supposed to be on vacation, but it is cut short when a groom at the neighboring horse farm tells Sydney she is in trouble and needs to make sure her horse wins his next race.  But the horse owner has other ideas and sends his goons after the groom.  Sydney manages to stop the criminals with the aid of the track security chief.

Stevens, Dustin 
= Justice ****
Fiction.  Book in the Sydney Rye Kindle Worlds series.  Sydney teams up with Reed, a detective in Franklinton, Ohio to avenge the death of a girl Sydney helped once. 

Welling, ReGina
Spell or High Water ****

Fiction.  An anthology of paranormal cozy mysteries.

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