Best Date Book

Sin & Vengeance by C.J. West opens with a bang but the erotic threesome comes to an end when an uninvited guest is murdered. Charlie Marston’s dreams of being a football hero were dashed when he was injured and forced to join the family winemaking business. He uses the house of an acquaintance to hide [...]

Blood, Money, Power, written by author, Michele Marie Tate, is a fictional, historical saga, based on a true story. It’s a tale similar to those that shout at us from news headlines every day – how greed and political power has led to fraud and even murder. Tate takes her readers back to the gilded [...]

Brian Cabell’s “Money in the Ground” is an intriguing story about a proposed mine in present day Upper Michigan and the controversy that erupts in the community as a result. The effective opening scene sets the tone when a house is burned down, the third in the neighborhood of the small fictional town of Peebles, [...]

I like “different.” Different can be a really great thing when you are reading fiction day after day. So, I thoroughly enjoyed William Lashner’s latest very different novel, Blood and Bone! First, the main character was different. He was funny, sensitive, and in many ways utterly charming. Yet, he drank most nights, couldn’t hold jobs [...]

As “Creation in Death” starts, a woman’s body is found. The state of the body and evidence found on it points to a serial killer who had been dormant. Lt. Eve Dallas is soon on the trail of the killer, one whom she investigated nine years earlier. Now, in the year 2060, “The Groom” is [...]

Another excellent book in the Mercy Falls series that Colleen Coble has made famous. Her books never disappoint her readers. They only add to their love of reading her spiritually based books. As with most of our lives, if we turn to God in times of praise as well of times of problems that we [...]

Nemesis In Spain by George J Thomas is a novel that will appeal to the reader who likes repeated tableaux of fast-flowing action. It’s not really a whodunit, more of a who’s doing what. Alexei is a retired Russian Spetsnaz officer who now offers a freelance service. A briefing in Russia from some decidedly shady [...]

The Fatal Heir: A Gillian Jones Mysteryby Lois LewandowskiiUniverse (2006)ISBN 059539843X Gillian is the probation officer in a small town. Gillian’s mother-in-law managed to pull a few strings and suddenly there was a job opening that would give Gillian the money to continue seeing the fertility doctor. Gillian was now the town’s investigator and already [...]

Don’t be put off by the title of this book, as it is written by a very good young Canadian author who has become much respected for his work both in Europe as well as America. This is a compulsive read about a journalist named Patrick Rush who is also a single father and a [...]

Accurate details prove important for those of us who include crime scenes in our writing. In the real world, scene investigators arrive after the crime has been committed. Initially, they may have little or no information about the incident except what they can see. Every CSI wants answers in three basic areas: What was the [...]