Killer Nashville Book of the Day Find Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) at Killer Nashville’s associate, Amazon.com* C. Joseph Greaves Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) by C. Joseph GreavesReviewed by Tessa Bryant Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) has everything you want in a ‘30s crime novel: filthy New York alleyways, a […]
Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge From the melting watercolors alone on the cover of “Love Water Memory” by Jennie Shortridge, I was pulled in. The writing carried me on downstream. “Love Water Memory” (all without commas) is a wonderful character study. It was emotional, full of complex relationships, and powerful. From the first page, we […]
A man on death row, a second wife learning the startling truth about the first, a sister avenging the death of her sister, and how to write a killer thriller. Here are some books I think you might find of interest. Some I have reviewed in depth, others I just blurbed to let you know why […]
Today’s featured book is Rapscallion by James McGee It’s the early 1800s and espionage is alive and well in jolly old England. “Rapscallion” by James McGee is the third adventure for Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood and in this installment, without giving too much away, he is to go undercover as a prisoner of war to discover […]
Today’s featured book is The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne If you are looking for a page-turning mixture of suspense and betrayal within a well-executed part love story, part historical epic, and part-tragedy, then “The House of Special Purpose” is a book you must not miss. New York Times bestselling Irish author John Boyne’s new […]
Today’s featured book is The Mothers by Jennifer Gilmore It is amazing how, when one can’t have children, that one sees children and pregnant women everywhere, hears women getting pregnant who didn’t want to be, hears innocent remarks made by family members that makes the person not able to have a child feel nothing less than a […]
Today’s featured book is Submergence by J.M. Ledgard J. M. Ledgard’s “Submergence” has figuratively grabbed me by the…neck. Every few months I read a book like this and it just blows me away. This novel hit me in the gut. The story is from the points-of-view of two characters: James More, a spy, and Danielle Flinders, a […]
Today’s featured book is Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger William Ken Krueger’s new deeply human grief-ridden novel “Ordinary Grace” is as much a literary novel as it is a mystery. Told from the point-of-view of a 13-year-old boy, Frank, an about-to-be juvenile delinquent preacher’s son (according to the town), and featuring a brother who stutters, a […]
Today’s featured book is Death of A Neighborhood Witch (Jaine Austen Mystery) by Laura Levine. Who says you can’t mix murder with laughs? And some candy? Why Clay Stafford chose this book: This book was released by Kensington in time for Halloween. I picked it up, loved it, and decided great fiction needed no holiday. This is the 11th […]
Today’s featured book is Death of a Schoolgirl by Joanna Campbell Slan. Who would have thought Jane Eyre was such an excellent detective? Why Clay Stafford chose this book: Joanna Campbell Slan’s new historical series stars Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. “Death of a Schoolgirl,” the first in this historical cozy series, picks up where the classic leaves […]