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Megan Casey reviews The Girl in Gold by Beth Lyons

May 16, 2018 by Danika Ellis

I recently received a couple of review copies of books in which the private investigator protagonist has paranormal powers. The first, Geonn Canon’s Underdogs, has its shape-shifting PI use her powers to do surveillance for a client in the first few pages. Perhaps I should have read on, but using paranormal powers to solve aRead More

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Megan Casey reviews The Ultimate Exit Strategy by Nikki Baker

April 18, 2018 by Danika Ellis

Hmm. This book was published by Bella Books in 2001, which would have made it one of their first publications. This means that for some reason Baker bailed on Naiad, who had published the first three books in this series. Naiad was subsumed by Bella two years later. The copy I read for this reviewRead More

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Megan Casey reviews Long Goodbyes by Nikki Baker

March 21, 2018 by Danika Ellis

This is the third novel in Nikki Baker’s Virginia Kelly series. It is an odd novel. For one thing, unlike her other novels, it isn’t a mystery. Nor is it a thriller or a romance or any of the other typical genres. Although Virginia Kelly is the protagonist and the story is told in herRead More

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Megan Casey reviews A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter 

December 20, 2017 by Danika Ellis

One of the reasons I read books is that I don’t like to watch TV. So it’s not necessarily a compliment when I say that A Quiet Death could easily be made into an episode of Broadchurch: death among dark and brooding scenery. But because of the shared point of view of the two main protagonists, it’s like watchingRead More

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Megan Casey reviews Only Lawyers Dancing by Jan McKemmish

November 15, 2017 by Danika Ellis

I’ve had to create a new shelf for this one called Lesbian Crime Fiction. There is a lot of crime in this book, and a couple of lesbians, but nobody actually solves a mystery or a puzzle. At least, I don’t think they do. The fact is that Only Lawyers Dancing is so literary that it’s oftenRead More

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Megan Casey reviews Addict by Matt Doyle

September 20, 2017 by Danika Ellis

Popular lesbian author Lori L. Lake has an interesting essay on pseudonyms and the reasons writers choose to use them. Oddly, she fails to discuss the use of pen names in lesbian mysteries. The omission is even more unusual because “Lori L. Lake” is, in fact, itself the pseudonym of a writer of lesbian mysteries. I don’t know her reason forRead More

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Megan Casey reviews Edited Out by Lisa Haddock

August 16, 2017 by Danika Ellis

It would be easy to just say that this is a really good book and that you should put it high on your list of things to read. but I guess that would be shirking my responsibilities as a reviewer. But if you’ve read any of my other reviews you’d know that several things catchRead More

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Megan Casey reviews The Slayer by Nadine LaPierre

July 19, 2017 by Danika Ellis

Whoa. Here’s something I wasn’t expecting. I purchased The Slayer primarily so I could get free shipping for a recent book order. At the time I ordered it, I was not even sure that it was a mystery. The book, when it arrived, was an attractive size and it was well formatted—more accessible for my taste thanRead More

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Megan Casey reviews Fearful Symmetry by Tasha Fairbanks

June 21, 2017 by Danika Ellis

For me, good books are the hardest to review. I mean, it’s easy—and sometimes not even fair—to find flaws in the work of writers who really don’t understand writing, but what do I say about a writer who does? Sure, Tasha Fairbanks’ characters are good, her prose is compelling, her plot is exciting and unusual—butRead More

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Megan Casey reviews The Shirley Combs/Dr. Mary Watson Series by Sandra de Helen

May 17, 2017 by Danika Ellis

The Hounding  (Shirley Combs/Dr. Mary Watson Series Book 1) Pastiche: “a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work.” For decades, the word pastiche was commonly used to refer to stories about Sherlock Holmes that were not written by A. Conan Doyle. Perhaps the most famous is The Seven-Percent Solution, which was aRead More

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