2021 Challenges

2022 Library Love Challenge @BooksofMyHeart @angels_gp #2022LibraryLoveChallenge

Hosted by Angel’s Guilty Pleasures & Books of My Heart, this is a favorite challenge. I love libraries and so many of the books I read are sourced by them. This will be my fourth year participating in the challenge and I’m signing up for Library Addict (48 books) since I did at least that… Continue reading 2022 Library Love Challenge @BooksofMyHeart @angels_gp #2022LibraryLoveChallenge

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman @richardosman #LesleyManville @PRHAudio

The Cooper Chase Retirement Center in Kent is home to four residents who meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss and try to solve open cold cases from the files of one of their former members. Together, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim make up The Thursday Murder Club. Until recently, the best they’d done… Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman @richardosman #LesleyManville @PRHAudio

Audiobook, Blog Tour, Contemporary Fiction, Holiday

Blog Tour: The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman @viola_shipman @npnarrates @HarlequinBooks

Years ago, Amberrose Murphy left the snow and darkness of Michigan behind and reinvented herself as Sonny Dunes, the highly rated meteorologist in Palm Springs, California. Now, the new hipster owner of her TV station has replaced her with an AI solution. But, she didn’t go quietly and her meltdown was in front of the… Continue reading Blog Tour: The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman @viola_shipman @npnarrates @HarlequinBooks

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

Only the Lucky by Linda Castillo @LindaCastillo11 #KathleenMcInerney @MacmillanAudio

The short stories/novellas of the Kate Burkholder series are all included in the audiobook anthology A Simple Murder. As I’m reading the series in order, I will post the reviews of each separately.   Police Chief Kate Burkholder and her team have their hands full on Friday the 13th in Painter’s Mill. There’s a massive… Continue reading Only the Lucky by Linda Castillo @LindaCastillo11 #KathleenMcInerney @MacmillanAudio

Contemporary Romance

The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

Cybil Campbell is the youngest of Grant and Genviéve’s three children and has followed her father’s path. She’s the artist behind a comic strip but she’s a much lighter spirit than Grant, exuding cheer and sunshine, always seeing the best in people. That includes her new sullen neighbor, Preston McQuinn who guards his privacy with… Continue reading The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

Audiobook, Blog Tour, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

Blog Tour & #Giveaway: Her Second Death by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 @BrilliancePub

Philadelphia Detective Bree Taggert transferred to the Homicide Division two days ago and is paired with veteran Detective Dana Romano who may not be sociable but is a skilled, smart investigator. They’re called to her second death but this time it’s not a suicide. It’s definitely a homicide and the victim is James Tyson, murdered… Continue reading Blog Tour & #Giveaway: Her Second Death by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 @BrilliancePub

Audiobook, Blog Tour, Contemporary Fiction, Holiday

Blog Tour: The Christmas Escape by Sarah Morgan @SarahMorgan_ @HarlequinBooks

It’s been two years since Christy Sullivan’s mother died in a car accident. Her only remaining relative is an aunt, Robyn Svennson, who she’s never met as she and her sister were estranged. Christy needs an escape from the country cottage she and husband Seb purchased that’s become more like a money pit so she… Continue reading Blog Tour: The Christmas Escape by Sarah Morgan @SarahMorgan_ @HarlequinBooks

Audiobook, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction

All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle @mikegayle #BenOnwukwe @libro.fm @HachetteAudio

Hubert Bird lives a lonely and isolated life, has for years, but you couldn’t tell that from the sunny updates he provides his daughter Rose in their weekly phone calls. He lives in the London borough of Bromley and she’s a professor with a wonderful career in Melbourne, Australia. He even maintains a notebook to… Continue reading All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle @mikegayle #BenOnwukwe @libro.fm @HachetteAudio