A Bone to Pick
by Charlaine Harris
"Who does the skull belong to?"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted August 21, 2008

Aurora "Roe" Teagarden has to go to two weddings and a funeral in the span of a few months. One wedding is of a former lover's, and the other is her mother's. The funeral is for Jane Engle, a member of the disbanded crime discussion group. Roe is surprised Read more...

Freezer Burn
by D. H. Dublin
"exhilarating police procedural"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2008

It has been a strange week in Philadelphia if you ask the CSU investigative team. While much of the unit works an arson that took six lives, investigator Tommy Parker and rookie technician Madison Cross work a carved up corpse found in several trash bags by the garbage collectors; Read more...

Feast of Fools
by Rachel Caine
"enjoyable young adult fantasy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2008

An hour from her home, Claire Danvers attends Texas Prairie University in Morganville, Texas. She has learned a lot in her time away from her parents about life, death, and the undead. One of her roommates is a rookie vampire; while another is the son of a vampire Read more...

Fearless
by Diana Palmer
"fascinating romantic suspense"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2008

In San Antonio anyone looking at pint sized Gloryanne Barnes would not connect her to being a tough district attorney, but she is. Besides being small, Glory is handicapped by a bad hip, broken twice as a child by her volatile mother Beverly who got off the child abuse Read more...

Dyer Consequences
by Maggie Sefton
"fun amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2008

In Fort Connor, Colorado, CPA Kelly Flynn is concerned as she has been harassed by vandals. Her tires were slashed, her windshield cracked, and red paint tossed on her house. She is also worried about fixing up the Bellevue Canyon Ranch she recently purchased although her boyfriend Steve Read more...

Cool Cache
by Patricia Smiley
"charming cozy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2008

Los Angeles based business consultant Tucker Sinclair shares a suite with private detective Charley Tate. Her latest client is Nectar, an upscale chocolate shop who needs Tucker's skills so the owner Helen Taggart can sell candies at a profit. One day Tucker arrives to find the Nectar door Read more...

China Lake
by Meg Gardiner
"exciting thriller"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2008

In Santa Barbara, California Pastor Peter Wyoming and his Remnant supporters heckle at the AIDS funeral of Claudine Gerard. Close friend novelist Evan Delaney is outraged by these religious nuts and tells them so. However, Peter gets the last word when he implies his cartoonist is Evan's runaway Read more...

The Rath Haven Chronicles
by Rachel DeFriez
"terrific coming of age fantasy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 1, 2008

Bishop Larson informs Jack Weston that in Switzerland his father is in a coma and his mother is apparently dead though the body has not been found; Jack and his sister Jane will move to Rath Haven, Utah to live with their paternal uncle. Jack knows that "them" caused Read more...

Lovers and Ladies
by Jo Beverley
"two fine reprints of early 1990s Regency romances"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 25, 2008

"The Fortune Hunter". Amethyst "Amy" de Lacy decides to marry for money so that her husband will bestow dowries on her sisters and pay off the debts her late wastrel dad engulfed her brother Jasper with. However, Amy wonders how to meet a wealthy spouse when her family Read more...

Lethal Legend
by Kathy Lynn Emerson
"entertaining late nineteenth century regional cozy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 25, 2008

In 1888 Maine Dr. Ben Northcote travels across Penobscot Bay to Keep Island to help three men suffering from poisoning. When he fails to return home or send a message to his fiancée Diana Spaulding, she becomes concerned as that is so out of character for the considerate Ben. Read more...

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