Short and Quick Reviews

Crime Rib by Leslie Budewitz is the second book in the “Food Lover’s Village” mystery series. Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime, July 2014 I love the pace and the comfortable tone of this light fare filled with delicious food to savor and a mystery to solve. The...

Chatting With Maddie Briggs by Virginia Lowell

Murder, Marriage, and Money: Those three items were absent from my life a few years ago. That was before my best friend since age ten, Olivia (Livie) Greyson, returned to her hometown, Chatterley Heights, Maryland, with a divorce decree and a dream. Together, Livie...

A Cookie Before Dying by Virginia Lowell

A Cookie Before Dying by Virginia Lowell is the second book in the “Cookie Cutter Shop” mystery series. Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime (Penguin), December 2011 Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House—a quaint shop that specializes in all...

A Day In The Life Of Olivia Greyson by Virginia Lowell

Sometimes my day starts in the middle of the night… with murder. So far, I haven’t been the victim or the perpetrator, but I have experienced the occasional brush with pre-dawn homicide since moving back to my little hometown of Chatterley Heights, Maryland. I’m...