Barbara Hambly’s first mystery set in antebellum New Orleans, A Free Man of Color, has a prominent place on my keeper shelf. Though I haven’t read the intervening several books in the series I was eager to review the latest installment, Die Upon a Kiss. Benjamin January is an accomplished physician and a virtuoso musician….
Usually when it comes to time travel books, I’m not too picky. My father, who is an omnivorous reader, can’t read time travel at all since the whole concept offends his sense of logic. I accept the premise and don’t worry how the characters travel in time, but once they do, if they act like…
It’s never easy to give a bad review, and this one is particularly difficult because the book in question represents an author’s life dream. Susan Elliston apparently spent fifteen years researching and writing Lafitte’s Lady before having it published by a vanity press called FirstPublish.com. I’m sorry to say that this book is awful. Tori,…
And to think I almost put this book down because one of Beau Dupree’s first lines is: “The minute Jose Lee’s out the door though, I’m picking it up right where I left off. First thing I’m going to do is find me a little blond with big tits.” I am not at all fond…
New Orleans and the Cajun country of Louisiana, are the background for Michelle Jerott’s Golden Heart Award-winning book, Absolute Trouble, and a wonderful book it is. Absolute Trouble has a wounded heroine, a bad boy hero, a drug-dealing slug of a villain, and some great supporting characters. Mix all these with a fast-paced plot and…
Rebel Spies, royal ancestors, and a marriage of convenience. Beverly Jenkins’s Through the Storm is a typical romance with a few twists. I liked the interactions between the characters but I did not like the way Jenkins presented historical facts. Sable Fontaine was born a slave on a southern plantation. Her mother was repeatedly raped…
This book is not the standard romance; it’s actually a mystery. But it’s a book that nobody should miss out on. It’s that good! Picture New Orleans in the summer; hot, humid, sultry, murderous and you’ve got the makings of one heck of a story. Karen Whitlaw is our heroine, and she’s exactly as you’d…
Ah, those sexy, slow-handed Southern men. First, there was Dane Hollister in Dream Man; and now there’s Marc Chastain in Kill and Tell. Being a Northern girl, I’m beginning to think I’ve been missing something – and I’ll bet you Southern gals know what that is, too. “Nooawlins” – that’s New Orleans to you and…
Knight Errant is the sixth and latest in Marilyn Pappano’s series Southern Knights. The books are set in New Orleans in a decaying neighborhood called Serenity Street. The characters in the Southern Knights books all have a common cause. They are fighting a crime boss named Jimmy Falcone. You don’t have to have read the…
Don’t let the title of this book fool you – Day Dreamer is not a dreamy sort of read. Instead, it is a two-hanky read and one of the best books you are likely to read this year. Set in New Orleans and the Caribbean in 1816, this compelling tale is a marriage of convenience…