Promise Not to Tell is book two in the Cutler, Sutter & Salinas detective agency series. The story of a man and woman united by a unique childhood, it’s a mystery which highlights the stuff of which modern day nightmares are made. For Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy there is a before and after. Before…
Despite living in Minnesota for nearly seven years, I never really got into hockey. I mean what’s the thrill of watching a bunch of big sweaty guys pounding on each other with hockey sticks? Then I moved to Denver and got caught up in the spirit of watching the Avalanche as they chased and eventually…
Okay, y’all. This book is a lot of things. It’s got insta-love/insta-lust, it’s got a fake-relationship, it’s got a famous actor falling for a ‘normal person’. Throw in a stalker subplot, an agoraphobic sister, and it’s a lot to pack into 200 pages. That being said, it’s generally successful and a lot of fun and…
Liv Rancourt has captured the 1950s’ post-war exuberance, conformity, music and homophobia in a gloriously evocative narrative entitled Aqua Follies. This beautifully told tale stands as a warning to those who yearn for the way things used to be. It seems in our more enlightened times some have forgotten just how bad things could be…
Jayne Ann Krentz is the author who turned me into a romance reader in the late 1990s. While I’ve liked many of her recent books, I never expected I would give another a DIK, until I read When All the Girls Have Gone. It’s truly one of my favorites of hers. Charlotte’s Sawyer’s sister is…
Have you ever worked a job where the employee handbook would rival the thickest tomes in the Library of Congress? If so, you’ll relate to the heroine of this funny, quirky office romance. As the newest employee at public relations firm Starr Media, Lainey Taylor, the second assistant to CEO Brogan Starr, gets a crash…
Readers can call Reed’s books a lot of thing, but boring isn’t one of them. Chaser was an off-beat, almost light-hearted look at a chubby guy and his Adonis-like lover while Raining Men delved into the messy personal life of a sex addict. Now Reed again changes his tone to one that’s nearly camp as…
I chose Caramel and Magnolias for review simply because I liked the title, usually a no-no because we’re expected to finish review books if we can. If you accidentally choose a stinker you’re stuck with it. This time I lucked out and found a quite nice book by a mostly new author that I probably…
I had a bit of a wake up call last year when I realized I’d reviewed ten series romances – and awarded nearly all of them C range grades (one was a D). Perhaps my go-to “light and easy” reads were becoming neither light nor easy. I backed way off this year; Just One Kiss…
In this latest entry in the Bloodhound Files series, Jace Valchek is back in Seattle after her battles in Las Vegas in Killing Rocks. In this book the focus is much more on character development than on threats to end the world. I didn’t like this one quite as much as the previous book, but…