3 stars.  You know what you are getting with Stone Barrington novels! Brett Battles is a worthy successor to Stuart Woods with a seamless transition that brings sex, money, murder together into the same basicContinue Reading

4 stars.  Another winner from Hillerman.  In this one, the plot starts out slowly with Bernie investigating the deaths of several sheep by feral dogs.  At the same time, Leaphorn is helping an adopted woman find herContinue Reading

3 stars. Simultaneously fantastic and the weakest in the series.  Grasping at straws for a macabre plot that becomes muddled at the midpoint and only slightly recovers for the rather routine and well-telegraphed ending.  TheContinue Reading

3 stars. Interesting cozy with a twist: a locked room murder mystery! Gemma reluctantly runs the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium in, of course, a small Cape Cod town. Cozy mysteries and Cape Cod goContinue Reading