Review: Year One

Year One by Nora Roberts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Nora Roberts is a first-class writer who delivers an outstanding performance consistently with her writing. My first encounter with this author was with her J.D. Robb crime series, but I have read many of her other novels as well, and each and everyone one has been a first-class novel. In this apocalyptic thriller, we find the world plunged into chaos after a family unleashes a supernatural power that spreads a disease that will decimate the earth leaving those who have survived to overcome the violence to start a better life with their new magical abilities. Who will survive and who will perish? An exciting page turner with many characters you will love or hate so don't wait to get your copy of this riveting book.
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Review: The Widening Gyre

The Widening Gyre by Chuck Grossart
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

If you believe in God then you must believe that there is also the Devil. In the war between God and the Devil, there are those on earth that have been chosen to fulfill certain destinies in the fight for world domination. With the help of ghosts who were brutally murdered two young adults find themselves fighting for their lives from people controlled by demons hell-bent on killing them. Will they win in the end? or not? Good character development and an interesting twist on the fight between good and evil.

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Review: Death of an Honest Man

Death of an Honest Man by M.C. Beaton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Scottish Detective Hamish Macbeth with his bright ginger hair is content to solve crimes but shies away from any type of promotion. In this, the thirty-third in Hamish Macbeth series by author M.C. Beaton we find Hamish knee-deep in suspects after a local newcomer who seemed to have insulted just about everyone he came in contact with is found dead in a peat bog. Not only is Hamish inundated with possible murder suspects but he also finds himself having to train or replace several new police recruits, along with trying to stay one step ahead of his boss who has it out to discredit Hamish at every chance and save his once pet wildcat. So many fun quirky loveable characters that blended together to set a tale that only the English can weave. This writer has earned a spot on my must-read shelf.

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Review: Death of an Honest Man

Death of an Honest Man by M.C. Beaton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Scottish Detective Hamish Macbeth with his bright ginger hair is content to solve crimes but shies away from any type of promotion. In this, the thirty-fifth in Hamish Macbeth series by author M.C. Beaton we find Hamish knee-deep in suspects after a local newcomer who seemed to have insulted just about everyone he came in contact with is found dead in a peat bog. Not only is Hamish inundated with possible murder suspects but he also finds himself having to train or replace several new police recruits, along with trying to stay one step ahead of his boss who has it out to discredit Hamish at every chance and save his once pet wildcat. So many fun quirky loveable characters that blended together to set a tale that only the English can weave. This writer has earned a spot on my must-read shelf.

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Review: They All Fall Down

They All Fall Down by Tammy Cohen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Your fellow residents of a physiatrist clinic start committing suicide and you insist that they have been murdered but when your crazy nobody believes you. A good look at how many mental health patients are misunderstood by those who think they are the sane ones.

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Review: Celtic Viking

Celtic Viking by Lexy Timms
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A historical tale of adventure that will have you traveling back to a magical time filled with cruelty and honor.

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Review: Mehndi for the Inspired Artist: 50 contemporary patterns & projects inspired by traditional henna art

Mehndi for the Inspired Artist: 50 contemporary patterns & projects inspired by traditional henna art by Morgan Alex
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This well-structured book has high-quality images along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions that will have you creating and crafting some uniques designs on yourself, family and friends in henna or incorporating the same designs on objects such as a glass jar and just about any surface artists use as a canvas. I myself have incorporated some of the designs into Mandalas for coloring. My next project I want to try on some Mason Jars as shown in the book for gift giving this holiday season.

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Review: A Christmas Return

A Christmas Return by Anne Perry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When aging Mariah Ellison receives an ominous package, with a murder weapon hidden within some Chrismas pudding she is drawn into the solving a twenty-year-old mystery that involved her dear friends. Chilling describes the subject matter when the rape of two young girls floods back memories of past cruelties inflicted upon her by her husband. With exceptional style, Anne Perry weaves a woeful tale of how one devious evil man preyed on all he came in contact with for his own sexual desires. Can Mariah along with the help of her nephew find enough evidence to put this monster away for good? This is a perfect book to curl up with anywhere you have a few short hours, being one hundred and seventy-seven pages long this makes a great travel companion or stocking stuffer. Thank you, Anne Perry, Ballantine Books of Random House Books and Goodreads for allowing me to receive an ARC copy of this book.
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Review: THE MARKER

THE MARKER by Diana Savastano
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The US Civil War caused brothers to fight brothers. When a Confederate Doctor is killed and buried in an unknown grave in a Union cemetery his ghost comes back to right some wrongs when his grave marker is stolen. In this investigative reporter mystery, we travel from New York to the deep south and find love and some unscrupulous individuals. I just reviewed The Marker by Diana Savastano. #TheMarker #NetGalley

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Review: Next of Kin

Next of Kin by James Tucker
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Riveting, I could not put this book down. It moved at a good pace from one atrocity to another in this thriller. The sins of the fathers who became wealthy by stealing and killing the Jews will come back to enact vengeance upon future generations. He kills with a hatchet then leaves his victims chopped in mutilated lumps and you'll never know who the killer is until the very end. Looking forward to what this author has to offer in the future.

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Review: Eye of the Beholder

Eye of the Beholder by Elizabeth Cooke
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

As a lover of art, I was familiar with all the painters that were selected for this book. But as a woman, I was appalled at the treatment of those young women who modeled for paintings and found themselves in a sexual relationship with the artist. Not all the artists in the book took advantage of their models. My disillusion with the book was because still today we shrug off the fact that some men are predators feeding on the young and innocent. When will stop sweeping sexual inequality as a trivial crime?




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Review: The Kill Society

The Kill Society by Richard Kadrey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

He is called "the Abomination" who is a monster killing monsters who are on a first name basis with Lucifer, in fact, Jim who goes by several names held the Lucifer position in Hell for a brief time. This book was funny and really sick in so many disturbing ways. Jim/Slim our hero? murderer? finds that he has been killed for good this time around and is back in Hell. He teams up with a bunch of misfits and a few Angels who are on a quest to end the war between Heaven and Hell. It was a rip-roaring time through the lands of Hell with its bogs of blood and sewage or the brutal deserts and mountains with no water. I really enjoyed this book and will be picking up, in the beginning, I am a fan for life.

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Review: The Judas Flower

The Judas Flower by Douglas Lindsay
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

In Glasglow, Scotland murders seem to have a way of happening when least convenient. DI Aliya Pereira's life is in turmoil, the weather sucks and to boot; she now has not one murder but several that her partner DS Blaine must solve. What is the common thread that ties all the victims together? The first victim is found dead tied to a gravestone with a crucifix rammed into his head. Was he killed for a long past secret, the millions he just won in a lottery or for some unknown reason not yet ascertained? A riveting crime detective mystery with a sharp pair of partners with some highly suspicious culprits from author Douglas Lindsey from be-ebooks was a first-rate thriller.

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Review: The Shadow of Death: A Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery

The Shadow of Death: A Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery by Jane Willan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Shadow of Death by Jane Willan
A Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery #1
by Jane Willan
Crooked Lane Books

This murder mystery finds us having a Gouda time in a Welsh town who's local Convent has been slated for destruction if the Nuns can not increase their enrollment status. Amongst this obstacle, Sister Agatha the resident mystery novelist in the making must unravel the mystery of the young Jacob death who was found murdered in their cheese curing room since the authorities believe it a simple accident. With the help of her longtime friend and Priest, Father Selwyn begin a quest to uncover the person or persons who lead young Jacob to his death and to devise a plan on how to save the Abbey from being torn down to make room for a new upscale health spa. This novel is the first in author Jane Willan's, "Sister Agatha & Father Selwyn Mystery" series. In the small community of the Abbey, we find many likable, fun lives that coexist with the changing world while retaining their old world charm, you have found a follower of more Sister Agatha adventures.

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Review: Searcher of the Dead

Searcher of the Dead by Nancy Herriman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Searcher Of The Dead
by Nancy Herriman
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A Recent widow and herbalist Bess Ellycott are one step away from finding the actual killer of her brother-in-law, who was found hanging from a tree. If her brother-in-law's death is ruled to be a suicide, then all his possessions will become the property of the Duke, leaving her sister and her two children penniless and without a home. Bess searches for clues in all the wrong and right places. Upon meeting the elected Constable, where there seems to be some mutual attraction between them, but she has her doubts as to whether he can complete the task at hand without her continued help. This book was fun, witty, a dash of good historical subject matter, substantial characters to relate with encouragement or hostility in a land where men are considered superior to women.

In 1593 Queen Elizabeth enacted a new bill named the "Act Against Puritans. In this bill, she requires that all individuals over the age of sixteen be responsible in attending church services on a weekly basis or face fines, imprisonment, and other such judicial penalties that were popular at that time.

Repression, no freedom of religion.

Act Against Puritans By Queen Elizabeth in 1593; "conform themselves to the obedience of the laws and statutes of this realm, in coming to the church to hear divine service," https://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENG...



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Review: Carmilla

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Not as horrific as I was lead to believe. It was set in a time and place where strangers became friends due to the mear isolation of their lives. This was my first chance to read anything from author Joesph Sheridan Le Fanu who wrote this Vampire themed novel in 1871. He will be a most welcome addition to my to "follow" list of authors. The undead vampires have been and will be a subject of fear and nightmare for many years to come. A good thriller is always a good way to spend an evening alone.

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Review: Buried

Buried by C.J. Carmichael
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Buried (Twisted Cedar Mysteries Book 1)
by C. J. Carmichael

Some intriguing dysfunctional families in a small town on the coast of Oregon must unearth the mysteries behind the death of not only the local mother of two who's prime suspect is her handsome husband Kyle but the murders of several others in and around Oregon. When Dougal first received the email concerning the deaths of four small-town librarians in the state of Oregon, he was tempted to delete the message, but he did not. Now he is knee deep back on his home turf of Twisted Cedars with not only the four librarian murders from the seventies, his sister's wedding to the wrong man, a dead body in the vegetable garden, losing his heart to the local librarian, cryptic messages from his murderous father and a possible suicide that may shed light on all that is happening in Oregon. No wonder it will take three books to come to the final conclusion of this tale.

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDUNYFR/ref=cjcarmichaelc-20

Forgotten (Twisted Cedar Mysteries Book 2)
Exposed (Twisted Cedar Mysteries Book 3)

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