Category: Book Reviews

I just finished listening to the audio of The Beetle written by Richard Marsh and read by Nigel Patterson, and it is definitely something for a niche audience–people like me who like looking at early …

In Murder Again! Happy New Year! by D.B. Elrogg, the Milo Rathke series has come around full circle in a year. And just as there was a murder in Great Party! Sorry about the Murder!, …

The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper is one of the most hauntingly striking audiobooks I have ever listened to. I listen to hundreds of audiobooks each year, and so rarely do I wish …

Warning: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells are addictive. Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth in the series, is as irresistible as the rest., though it departs in one crucial way: Fugitive Telemetry is more purely focused …

Murder at St. George’s Church by Lee Strauss is the 7th book in the Ginger Gold series, set in the 1920s. I’ve come rather late to this series, which has 17 books but am enjoying …

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is a powerful historical fiction with a mystery element. It is 1939, and three young women of totally different backgrounds and varying skillsets have been recruited to work at …

The Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini is considered to be fiction, but it is about a real woman. Elizabeth Van Lew ran a significant intelligence network on behalf of the Union while ministering to Northern prisoners …

As Americans, we know we were first to land on the moon. However, most Americans aren’t aware that we weren’t the first country with a man in space. USSR citizen Yuri Gagarin circled the globe …

Traditionally, when most of us think of Europe, we don’t picture how people of color impacted the creation of society or their presence as part of it. The new book African Europeans works to dispel …

Josephine Morrow has been known as Girl One since her birth as part of an experimental commune where babies were conceived without male DNA in the name of science. Now decades later, Josephine and her …