Oct 17, 2008 | My Musing
The Chocolate Snowman Murders by JoAnna Carl is the eighth in the “Chocoholic” mystery series. Publisher: NAL, September 2008 The scrumptious—and deadly— hardcover debut of the national bestselling Chocoholic Mysteries. Lee McKinney Woodyard knows that...
Oct 15, 2008 | My Musing
Handbags and Homicide by Dorothy Howell is the first in the new “Haley Randolph” cozy mystery series. Publisher: Kensington, July 2008 Witty, smart, and always chic-to-die despite a less than glam checking account balance, Haley Randolph has it...
Oct 14, 2008 | My Musing
Swan Peak by James Lee Burke is the 17th book in the “A Dave Robicheaux” thriller series. Publisher: Simon & Schuster, July 2008 James Lee Burke’s new novel, Swan Peak, finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax...
Oct 13, 2008 | My Musing
Foreign Body by Robin Cook. Publisher: Putnam Adult, August 2008 A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic UCLA medical student on a desperate search for answers, in this chilling tale from the master of the medical thriller. Jennifer...
Oct 12, 2008 | My Musing
Black Out by Lisa Unger. Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books (Crown Publishing), May 2008 When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn’t realize she was being tragic. On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is...
Oct 11, 2008 | My Musing
Sail by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, June 2008 Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing...