Liss MacCrimmon is attempting to manage her family's Moosetookalook Scottish Emporium and her upcoming wedding to true love Dan Ruskin. Liss' parents, Vi and Mac, are in town for their daughter's day and Vi is "helping out" with everything and driving poor Liss totally crazy....

I recently had the opportunity to review the audio format of "I, Michael Bennett" by James Patterson. I became familiar with the character of detective Michael Bennett in “Tick Tock.” I quickly fell in love with the Bennett family. Bennett is a widower with ten...

"Fifteen Digits" by Nick Santora is a fast-paced thriller that will keep the reader turning the pages right to the very end. It is conspiracy in its highest form and five men are out to make money in it. However, they soon learn that as...

Handsome Linc Brannon is a top secret Army Intelligence officer working on special projects, some of them attached to Langley, home base of the CIA. His older brother RJ has just been married and Linc is sitting at a bar, relaxing until a television news...

"Gun Games" by Faye Kellerman is the story of Lt Decker and his police unit trying to make sense of two young people who commit suicide for little reason. Decker wants to see if there is any connection to school kids that harass others....

"Bastion: Guardian of Covington" by J J Marro is thoroughly enjoyable fantasy for six to ten year-olds. Bastion is a frog and lives a carefree existence in Covington, not really doing a great deal. But along comes the sprite Larien with a worrying tale of...

Tremont, Massachusetts, police officer Ben Grasso turns his cruiser into the parking lot of the Downtown Villa Motel. A young woman's bloody body is being carried out on a stretcher as Ben's fellow police officer Andy McGill is to be taken into custody. Undesirable local...

Colette French was the replacement coach for the cheer leaders. At first they resented her high expectations and regimented ideas. The girls were curious about her but she held them at arm’s length at first. Slowly she let them into her life. All the girls...

"The Death of Sweet Mister" by Daniel Woodrell is a well-written, entertaining but gloomy book. In it we meet Shug Akins, a thirteen year old overweight young man. He and his mother, Glenda, live rent free in a mobile home for taking care of the...

"Losses and Gains," book two in Karen Wiesner's 'Cowboy Fever Series,' is so much more than a romance novel; it is a story of love, resentment, sibling rivalry and second chances. Janaya decides to give up on pursuing her dream of making it big in...

Aaron "Ace" Jamieson rarely goes out with a woman beyond three months but when he met beautiful Talise Reed, Ace keeps on going out with her long after the three month mark is up. Then, Talise tells Ace that she is pregnant with their baby,...

A series of five heinous murders have occurred in the small town of Grabenberg, New Jersey. And next to each mutilated body has been found a note that more or less states "We are not evil. We are good. We are of the True...

"Spoiled" by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan is an excellent read for 4th grade through adults. Although the book is meant for preteens and teens I thoroughly enjoyed it. My copy was in the audio format. There are several lessons to be learned in "Spoiled":...

It's 1952 and the first setting for this story of an eccentric family and its assorted members is Pasadena, California, where the two oldest brothers have bought a home for their mother, sister and nephew. The nephew is Danny who is fourteen years old, a...

Adam Brown was born on February 5, 1974, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and died a hero, a Navy SEAL Team Six member, on March 17, 2010, in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan. He left behind a wife, Kelley, whom he dearly loved, two treasured...

I am shocked at the atrocities Henry Kissinger is accused of. But I am also not so naïve to think that similar things have not been done by other administrations that just haven’t come to light. The safety of the citizens of the United States...

"Do Yourself a Favor...Forgive" by Joyce Meyer is a book that everyone should take to heart. One of the biggest problems people have is learning to forgive, whether it is a spouse, a parent, a close friend or just someone they work with. The more...

This is the review of the audio version of "Forever and a Day" by Jill Shalvis. When Grace received the phone call, which happened to be a wrong number, offering her a job as a dog walker, she accepted it. The beautiful young woman had...

It is post-Civil War time in small town Hangtree where anything goes. Law and order is a dream and take-what-you-can and live with it is the norm. Principles are whatever wins out in a gun battle. The North and the South are still at odds...

In "Grandma, You Rock!" author Karen O'Connor gives the reader short stories about grandparenting which then lead to a reflection on everyday life as a practicing Christian. No matter what the religion of the reader is, the stories are absolutely delightful! They deal with topics...