I was a big fan of Magnum P.I. as a young adult, and an even bigger fan of Blue Bloods as an old adult. I was also big into the TV treatments of Louis L’Amour’s Sacketts and Travens. I’m absolutely crazy about the Jesse Stone movies, which are based on books by my favorite author, […]
I can definitely say Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt is the best book that included an octopus narrator. So I don’t seem to be damning it with faint praise, let me say it would be a really good book even if it had all been narrated by non-cephalopods. But I would also like […]
As I am having a go at writing a cozy mystery, I thought it wise that I read as many as I can just to get a feel for the genre. But I didn’t know where to start, so I went to my trusty Libby app and searched for cozies. It had been my intent […]
I discovered Harlan Coben by watching a couple series based on his books on Netflix. I liked them. They were fun and twisty, with good characters. So, I decided I wanted to read some of his books. I did some research and found that, while many of his books are stand-alones, he has a series […]
When the troublemaking brother of the man in prison for a drunken crash that killed their parents is found stabbed to death in their restaurant, everyone in the small Irish village of Kilbane assumes it was one of the O’Sullivan clan who did him in. The blame falls squarely on oldest brother James, a hot-tempered […]
I recently went with Sarah to see the latest Tom Hanks movie, A Man Called Otto. All I knew was the little I could glean from the trailer and that people were upset because they had changed the titular character’s name from Ove to Otto. Well, and that it stars Tom Hanks, which is good enough […]
Ephraim Cutler sure doesn’t seem like the type of person to commit a cold-blooded murder. He’s a soft-spoken young man with an eye for Isabel, the local mercantile owner’s daughter, and a soft spot for folks in need. But all that doesn’t change the fact that he shot a man, an old friend in fact, […]