#murdermystery – Cannonball Read 17

That Magic Sofa (a homage to Ben E. King)

Twist and Shout Murder: A Murder A-Go-Go Mystery by Rosemary Martin

April 29, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

The fluff continues in the second installment of the Murder A-Go-Go Cozy Romance Mystery series, and as long as you remember that this is fluff and therefore not really a book series to take overly seriously, you’ll be fine. Set 3 weeks after It’s A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder, Bebe and her oh so dreamy boss Bradley Williams have moved from Rip-City Records Talent Company to Ryan Modeling on the round-the-companies tour Bradley’s Uncle Herman has sent him on. See, Uncle Herman has no […]

Even Murder Can Be Groovy

It's A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder by Rosemary Martin

April 22, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

We all need harmless little fluff books in our lives, and this is one of the fluffiest. It’s 1964 and 22 year old Elizabeth “Bebe” Bennett, recently out of secretarial school in Richmond, Virginia, is loving her new independent life in New York. A month out from her move from Richmond, Virginia, she has a job as the secretary to the dreamy Bradley Williams, vice president of talent company Rip City Records. Bebe spends her days hard at work, daydreaming about the future when after […]

“When did we become such terrible people?””Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

June 25, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Other nights, when he thought I was already dreaming, he slid out of bed, took his coat and shoes, and disappeared into the dark outside. I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow. ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains “Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?” The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains […]

Momstrocities, Every Last One of Them

The Hunting Wives by Mae Cobb

May 10, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

The tagline for The Hunting Wives was “How far would you go to fit in?” And before I talk about the plot of the book and my recommendation I want to talk about my personal feelings of isolation as a mother. It began almost immediately when I had children because my friends and I had kids at different times. Some started earlier, so they were busy. Then it was me, and no one wanted to hang out with me because either they were busy with […]

A Plot Within A Plot

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

April 3, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

Imagine being a writing professor at a small community college. Your own novel had meager success but it certainly feels like your chance of fame and fortune are rapidly dwindling. Enter a young man named Evan. He doesn’t want or need your help with his writing. He has the best plot, one completely new, one that doesn’t follow a single trope. You read a few pages and he’s right, it is totally different than anything you’ve ever read, depressingly you wished you had though of the […]

The Craftiest of Pensioners

The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

March 27, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

The Bullet That Missed is the 3rd in the series of the Thursday Murder Club Mysteries. I adore the characters and I can never get enough of them working through their difficult cases that often overlap other cases. This one starts as all the others do. The gang gets together to choose a cold case to hopefully solve when Elizabeth also receives word from a mysterious man telling her that she must kill a retired Russian agent who was once her lover or her best […]

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