The Chase farm is not doing so well. The bills are mounting and the recurring accidents on the riding trails are not good for business. After all, who would want their child learning to ride at a stable where the riding trails are riddled with...

Pearlie by Judy Iverson is the story of how a toxic relationship can ruin lives, even after the relationship ended years ago. All of this started with Chet Cromwell and Jeanette Burnette. Chet always had a problem with drinking, but when Jeanette came into his...

Sarai by Lilya Myers is an intelligent murder mystery that packs the punch of an exotic, well-made Turkish coffee. Fragrant, strong and intoxicating, it mesmerizes the senses like the wafting flame of a candle from the first page onward, leaving readers spellbound and unable to...

Strength and talent are not limited to men, although that was how it was seen in 15th century Florence under the rule of the powerful Medici family and the Church. When Viviana is faced with the murder of Guiliano de Medici by the hands of...

Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel, a historical novel by Linda Bennett Pennell, gives a new twist to the famed organized crime figure. The action is not in Chicago, but in the Sunshine State. Pennell intertwines two stories, one in the present and the other...

My Nazi Nemesis: A Dark Thriller is an historical suspense novel written by Rich DiSilvio. Jack Goodwin was an OSS officer during the Second World War and had become a CIA operative after the war. He's a widower who lives with his fifteen-year-old daughter, Eleanor,...

Twenty Days to Treasure by Phyllis Gunderson is a high-octane treasure hunt that has the makings of an Indiana Jones sequel. Ethno-archaeologist, Dr. Matt Howard, an impoverished adjunct professor at a university in Arizona, is staying at the family home she had inherited from her...

Fast Track to Glory by Tomasz Chrusciel is a tautly woven thriller somewhat reminiscent of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Very few people have the privilege of being called upon to offer their professional expertise and when Nina Monte, Professor of History of Religions...

Deadly Dunes is from the Mac McClellan Mystery series by E. Michael Helms. Private Detective Mac McClellan decides to continue his investigation after his client, Jessie, dies shortly after hiring him to investigate her brother’s death. Jake was an archaeologist who unearthed artefacts and a...

Plaint for Provence: 1152 Les Baux by Jean Gill is the third book in The Troubadours Quartet series. Although I have not read the previous novels in the series, I had no problem understanding what was happening. This is definitely not a standalone, but if...