Just a reminder: A bunch of the books I’ve reviewed recently are now available at a bookstore near you. Here are links to the reviews. The Haunting of Paynes Hollow The Gallery Assistant Death on a Scottish Train The Devil Take the Blues Miss Winter in the Library With a Knife If you read any of these books, please consider leaving a review at Amazon, GoodReads, B&N or wherever books are sold. Reviews–good, bad, or indifferent–help readers choose books and […]
The outcast daughter of a powerful family of witches returns home to New York City and is immediately embroiled in a supernatural power struggle in this wickedly funny fantasy debut from AM Kvita. After seven long years Joan Greenwood is finally returning home. Unfortunately, her family totally forgot about it. Joan’s homecoming is lukewarm at best, but soon turns disastrous when news hits that someone has created a spell that can turn an ordinary human into a powerful witch, threatening […]
Ok—I live in a house in the woods. I built it—or at least I told the builders how to build it (whether they liked it or not) and I’ve lived in it for over 20 years. I can absolutely guarantee that this house is alive. It’s tried to kill me a couple of times—all in good fun—and it’s even more frequently saved my life. We have a complicated relationship. Haunted by a curse that kills someone close to their family […]
Modern Day. Payne’s Hollow, a village on the shores of Lake Ontario. We begin with a funeral. I already like it. Any book that starts with a funeral—especially a funeral where everybody agrees that the deceased was a giant pain is okely dokely with me. Even better, the reading of the will causes substantial problems for Samantha, the granddaughter of the recently deceased. It seems Sam’s father confessed to murder over a decade ago and then killed himself. In the […]
A little magic on a summer night. Read my review and enter the giveaway. LS Delorme will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Enter at all the tour stops to increase your odds. 1944. Harrisville, a small southern town. Veronica works at the cigarette factory and takes a side gig processing cannon fodder, er, new army recruits. Some of the recruits are black, and the small town is rife with prejudice. She meets […]
NetGalley and Hell or Highwater Books provided a free copy of The Devil Take the Blues in exchange for an honest review. Meet Me at the Crossroads The Devil Take the Blues by Ariel Slick is a Southern Gothic Song of Love and Infernal Bargains Circa 1920. The fly spot of a town called Azoma, Louisiana. Beatrice runs and owns the store she inherited from her profligate father only because she refuses to contemplate marriage, at which point the store […]
