Saturday, May 4, 2019

Books Read - April 2019

Aspenson, Carolyn Ridder
  • Deal Gone Dead *****
Fiction.  First in the Lily Sprayberry Realtor cozy mystery series.  Lily has been contracted to sell an elderly woman’s house, but when she finds the woman dead in the kitchen, she sets out to discover who killed her.

Ayers, Candace
  • Mating the Alpha ***
Fiction.  First in the Shifters Overload romance series.  ER doctor meets wolf shifter.

Baker, Blythe
  • To Capture a Crime **
Fiction.  First in the Piper Lane mystery series.  Pipe and her sister are vacationing in California when she spies a fishing boat capturing an endangered sea turtle.  After a man on a scooter knocks her off her bicycle, she follows him to a warehouse where sea turtles are being carved up.

  • To Drink of Deceit ***
Fiction.  First in the Maddie Morgan mystery series.  Maddie is shopping in Texas with her girlfriends when she is mugged, and a man looking for the Japanese fan she just bought wants to get it back.

Bell, Cindy
  • A Tough Cast to Crack ***
Fiction.  First in the Nuts About Nuts cozy mystery series.  Kerri is trying to start a new business in a small town, but when her handyman is found murdered in the shop, she realizes his death might be linked to a previous murder in town.

Berry, Steve
  • The Malta Exchange *****
Fiction.  Eighteenth book in the Cotton Malone thriller series.  Cotton is recruited to help Stephanie deal with an issue in Rome, while Luke is sent to Malta to spy on a meeting between a cardinal and a Knight of Malta.

Blake, Camilla
  • Wolfpack Security **
Fiction.  Shifter romance set in Colorado.

Brown, Josie
  • Hollywood Whore ***
Fiction.  Nina is supporting her husband with two jobs while he tries to get discovered in Hollywood.  When she meets a handsome agent at the gourmet grocery store she works at, she gives him her husbands demo tape.  He becomes a star, but when he cheats on his wife with his co-star, his wife can’t forgive him.

  • The Housewife Assassin’s Handbook ****
Fiction.  First in the Housewife Assassin books.  Donna is a suburban mom, but when her husband is killed and she finds out he was an assassin, she signs up with the same company to try to bring down his killers.

  • Onesies: Fall ***
Fiction.  First in the Totlandia series.  Mothers and one father of toddlers vie to win the few open slots in the Pacific Heights Mom and Tots preschool group.

Burrell, Teresa
  • Deadly Secrets ***
Fiction.  JP meets the woman of his dreams, and he has to keep her safe.

Carr, Robyn
  • Virgin River ****
Fiction.  First in the Virgin River series.  Melina accepts a job in the small town of Virgin River.  She needs to escape the stress of her old job and the grief of losing her husband.  When she arrives, she finds the situation is not as it was advertised, and all she can think is that she made a huge mistake and needs to leave.  But the town grows on her.

Castle, Angela
  • The Purrfect Predicament **
Fiction.  Third in the Australian Shifters series.  Juniper is hiding as a man when shifters Andy and Hamish spot her at a diner and recognize her as their mate.  They kidnap her and take her home with them and promise to keep her safe from her father, a crime lord out to kill her.

Charles, Ann
- Life at the Coffin Joint *****
Fiction.  First in the Deadwood Undertaker series.  Clementine is Deadwood’s first female undertaker, and the bodies are lining up.  But she has one other job that she keeps secret.  She’s a hunter, a killer, an assassin, a sharfrichter.

Connolly, Sheila
  • Relatively Dead ****
Fiction.  First in the Relatively Dead genealogy mystery series.  Abby moves to a new town with her boyfriend and meets Ned, a docent at a historical house she is visiting.  When she has a flash of visions and passes out, Ned helps her and they begin to talk about history and what happened to her.  With him as her tourist guide, they visit several locations in the Boston area, where she learns the history of her family.

Daley, Kathi
  • Snowmen in Paradise ***
Fiction.  Second in the paradise cozy mystery series.  TJ gets drawn into a case when a hated professional snowboarder is found dead.

Dane, Lauren
- Triad (reading)

Danley, Kate
  • The Woodcutter *****
Fiction.  The Woodcutter travels through the Wood trying to right wrongs and keep the balance in the world, but when the Queen and the Gentleman arrive wreaking havoc, he has to face his fears and give his all to save the kingdoms.

de Blasi, Marlena
  • A Thousand Days in Venice ***
Non-fiction.  A food journalist meets a banker in Venice and marries him, moving from America to Italy, where she revels in the customs and traditions of Venice.

DeLima, Jan
  • Celtic Moon ****
Fiction.  First in an urban shifter fantasy.  Sophie has spent 16 years running from Dylan, but when their son turns fifteen and begins to show signs that he is truly his father’s son, she takes him back to his father’s forest fortress, where they’ll both face dangers brought by the Guardians.

Fishman, Zoe
  • Inheriting Edith *****
Fiction.  Maggie is a housecleaner who inherits a house and a mother from a former client and friend.  Edith is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s, and when Maggie and Lucy, her daughter, move into the house, things are prickly.  These two women learn to live together and support each other in their lives.

Galenorn, Yasmine
  • Blood Bonds *****
Fiction.  Final book in the Otherworld urban fantasy series.  The girls are finally facing Shadow Wing.  Once he is defeated, they go on with their new lives.

Garrett, Danielle
  • Couture and Curses ****
Fiction.  Third in the Touch of Magic paranormal cozy mystery series.  A bridal gown designer is attacked, and Anastasia is caught in the crossfire.  When she becomes a target, Caleb insists that she hide out at a safe house, but the shadow man finds her there. 

  • Wedding Bells and Deadly Spells *****
Fiction.  Fourth in the Touch of Magic paranormal cozy mystery series.  When the groom at the shi-shi wedding dies just before the vows, Ana’s harridan boss rushes to blame Ana, who has finally had enough and quits her job.  While she tries to figure out what to do for work, she ends up helping to solve the murder.

Green, Layton
  • The Brothers Three ****
Fiction.  First in the Brothers Three fantasy trilogy.  Three brothers from New Orleans get swept into a quest in an alternative universe where magic and monsters rule.

Harms, Kelly
  • The Overdue Life of Amy Byler *****
Fiction.  Amy is a single mother whose husband ran off to Hong Kong three years previously with his girlfriend.  Now he’s back in town and wants to spend a week with their children.  Amy is reluctant to leave them alone with him but is finally talked into going to a conference in New York where she stays with her college friend and becomes the star of a new magazine article about “momspringa”.  She’s anxious to get back to her kids, but when she returns home, her husband asks to take the kids for the summer, and she realizes she does want to spend time for herself.

Harris, Joanne
  • The Girl with No Shadow ****
Fiction.  Second in the Viane Rocher series.  Viane and her two daughters have moved to Paris where they run a chocolaterie.  Zozie, a stranger, approaches Viane and asks for a job, but she has nefarious plans for the family.

  • Peaches for Monsieur le Cure *****
Fiction.  Third in the Viane Rocher series.  Viane and her daughters return to Lansquenet for a visit and get embroiled in a war between the village and the Muslims, the traditional versus the modern, and men against women.

  • The Strawberry Thief *****
Fiction.  Fourth in the Viane Rocher series.  Viane’s daughters are growing up.  Anouk has moved to Paris to live with her boyfriend, and Rosette has become a teenager.  When the local florist dies, he leaves his oak wood to Rosette, but his daughter tries to fight to get it back.  Reynard is fighting his own demon while he learns about the florist’s secret sin.  Viane is facing losing her youngest daughter, which would be what she dreads the most.

Heckart, Kelley
  • The Bear Goddess *****
Fiction.  First in the Arcadia fantasy series.  Callisto, a nymph, is on a quest to become the Bear Goddess, but when she meets and falls in love with Kasin, a centaur, it upsets her world in ways she can’t imagine.

Kimelman, Emily
  • A Spy is Born ****
Fiction.  First in the Starstruck mystery series.  Angela is an actress well on her way to joining the A-list, but when her director calls her to come out to his house, he has more in mind than just going over the script.  He drugs her, but Angela is able to fight him off, to the death.  And a mysterious man shows up offering her the chance of a lifetime, and she cannot turn him down.

MacInerney, Karen
  • Dyeing Season ****
Fiction.  Fifth in the Dewberry Farm cozy mystery series.  A scam involving a retirement home and a realtor results in the death of a home health care worker for Lucy’s neighbor.

Murray, Donna Huston
  • The Main Line is Murder ****
Fiction.  Ginger and her family move into a house owned by the private school her husband just became the headmaster of, but when she finds one of the staff murdered in the school, she’s determined to find the killer and hoping it won’t shut down the school.

Neal, Toby
  • Wired Truth *****
Fiction.  Ninth in the Sophie Ang series.  Sophie is now the CEO of Security Solutions, but she’s not happy behind the desk.  When a client approaches her about stolen diamonds, she decides to take on the investigation herself with a new partner.  Conner has graduated from his training and has taken his place as number One.  But he longs for Sophie, and she for him.

Nelson, Nova
  • The Missing Motive ****
Fiction.  Second in the Eastwind Witches paranormal cozy mystery series.  Ruby goes back in time to tell a story of how she does her job as ghost investigator.

Saint, Nic
  • Enemy of the Tates ***
Fiction.  First in the Tate-a-Tate series.  Cleo and Mark Tate are movie stars, but when Cleo finds a Mark look alike dead in her car, she becomes a suspect in his death.  When another Mark look alike kills their agent, Mark becomes a suspect.

Vallere, Diane
  • Designer Dirty Laundry ****

Fiction.  first in the Samantha Kidd cozy mystery series.  Samantha takes a new job in her hometown working for Patrick, a fashion icon.  But when she finds him dead on her first day on the job, she becomes the prime suspect.

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