A Killer Cupcake (Beachfront Bakery #1) Allison Sweet, 34, a sous chef in Los Angeles, has had it up to here with demeaning customers, her demanding boss, and her failed love life. After a shocking incident, she realizes the time has come to start life fresh and follow her lifelong dream of moving to…
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Book Review | A Murder in Paris | Blake Pierce
A Murder in Paris by Blake Pierce Diana Hope, 55, is still adjusting to her recent separation when she discovers her ex-husband has just proposed to a woman 30 years younger. Secretly hoping they would reunite, Diana is devastated. She realizes the time has come to reimagine life without him—in fact, to reimagine her life,…
Book Review | Pains and Penalties | Sarah Biglow
Pains and Penalties (A Geeks and Things Cozy Mystery #1) Small-town life brings big-city problems. Kalina Greystone’s return home to Ellesworth, MA to take over the family’s comic book shop brings back old friends and even older secrets. The death of her Great Aunt Agatha in plain sight at the annual Solstice Fair pushes…
Book Review | Killing Floor | Lee Child
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1) Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police…
Book Review | Gone Tomorrow | Lee Child
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher 13) Suicide bombers are easy to spot.They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs.There are twelve things to look for.No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them. New York City.The subway, two o’clock in the morning.Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers.Four are OK.The fifth isn’t.The train…
Book Review | The Hard Way | Lee Child
The Hard Way (Jack Reacher 10) Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher’s job is to make sure it all turns out right – money paid, family safely…
Book Review | Persuader | Lee Child
Persuader (Jack Reacher 7) Never forgive, never forget. Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs – and rewrite his own agonizing past. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands….
Book Review | First Term at Malory Towers | Enid Blayton
First Term at Malory Towers Darrell Rivers is off to boarding school for the first time. She quickly settles down and makes new friends. But the first term is not all fun and Darrell has some tricky problems to cope with. Author Profile Enid Blyton is one of the most popular children’s authors of…
Book Review | The Street Lawyer | John Grisham
The Street Lawyer | John Grisham Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage…
Book Review | Tripwire | Lee Child
Tripwire (Jack Reacher 3) Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he’s ever been. And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher’s own troubled past?Tripwire is a taut, nailbiting adventure which once again stars Lee Child’s irresistible hero, the maverick former…