A Stitch in Crime
by Betty Hechtman
"enjoyable amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 9, 2010

Molly Pink works as an event coordinator at Shedd & Royal Books and More. Her boss Mrs. Shedd hands over her rhinestone clipboard placing Molly in charge of the "Get Out of the Heat and Light Your Creative Fire" retreat weekend on the Monterey Peninsula. Her employer's only Read more...

Promise Me Tonight
by Sara Lindsey
"fine Georgian romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 9, 2010

In 1784, the oldest of five sisters six years old Isabella Weston wrote a letter to her dear mama telling her she will marry her older brother Henry's best friend, James Sheffield. Years later, she still knew he was the one for her. With her coming out in Read more...

How to Host a Killer Party
by Penny Warner
"delightful whodunit"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 9, 2010

At San Francisco State University, all part-time instructors were riffed due to budget cuts. Presley Parker was one of the first downsized by the school, but she rebounded quickly by opening up Killer Parties, an event planning firm. She mostly sponsors children's galas, but her big break comes when Read more...

Butter Safe Than Sorry
by Tamar Myers
"superb Pennsylvania Dutch amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 9, 2010

Magdalena Yoder Rosen is an original in her Amish town where most of the people try to blend in. She is married to a Jewish doctor, is a conservative Mennonite, and owns the Penn-Dutch Inn where the rich and famous stay. Besides being loudmouthed, her sister Susannah is Read more...

Pretty In Ink
by Karen E. Olson
"Brett Kavanaugh owns Las Vegas"
Reviewed by Lori Gondelman
Courtesy Lori's Reading Corner
Posted February 9, 2010

Brett Kavanuagh is known for her original art - tattoo art that is. As the owner of The Painted Lady tattoo shop in Las Vegas she doesn't do "flash" artwork as her counterpart Jeff Coleman does, she does custom work. So after she does the ink for a group of Drag Read more...

Lake Magic
by Kimberly Fisk
"entertaining contemporary romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 3, 2010

Jenny Beckinsale and her late fiancé Steven Harmon started The Blue Sky Air seaplane charter business three years ago but it has failed because she has no interest in anything except grieving her loss. Feeling pity as she compares her self to her siblings "Perfect Paul" and Amazing Anna". Read more...

Through Stone and Sea
by Barb & J. C. Hendee
"fascinating quest fantasy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 3, 2010

Wynn Hygeorht returned to the Guild of Sagecraft in Calm Seatt expecting a heroine's welcome due to the copies she made of arcane texts written by vampires during the time of the Forgotten History and the Great War, millennia ago. Instead of being one of the translators, she is Read more...

Doppelganger
by Laura Resnick
"amusing urban fantasy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 3, 2010

New York actress Esther Diamond waits for her next gig, but brings in needed cash while resting between roles as a singing waitress at Bella Stella because the patrons, when they are not killed, are mobsters that everyone knows are the best tippers. As she shares Ben and Jerry Read more...

Who Stole My Soul? A Dialogue with the Devil...
by Vishwa Prakash
"You Don't Have a Clue!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Reviews
Posted February 3, 2010

"Confused and directionless in a world where good things seem to happen to bad people, and bad things to good people," begins this fascinating meditation on the wisdom required to live a purposeful life! Most of the advice offered here arises from an unwillingness to see things the way they Read more...

Miracles, Messages & Metaphors
by Norm Carroll
"Wisdom for All Ages!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Reviews
Posted January 29, 2010

Miracles, Messages & Metaphors... I read it through in several sittings for the purposes of this review but would emphasize that this is a book to savor and meditate upon over a long span of time. Norm Carroll is a Deacon of the Catholic Church, but the Biblical focus of Read more...

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