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
Megan Casey reviews The Ultimate Exit Strategy by Nikki Baker
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
Megan Casey reviews Long Goodbyes by Nikki Baker
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
Megan Casey reviews The Lavender House Murder by Nikki Baker
The second installment of the Virginia Kelly mystery series finds Ginny and her friend Naomi vacationing in Provincetown. Both are having girlfriend problems and simply need a break from their daily grind. But soon after they arrive, a famous lesbian journalist is killed in an alley. Seems that the woman was a gay rights advocate whoRead More
Megan G reviews Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Sophie Bishop was clean when her best friend Mina was murdered before her eyes. She’d been clean for nine months, two weeks, and six days. Not that the police or her parents believe her, especially considering the evidence to the contrary found in her jacket pocket. Everybody thinks that Mina’s death was a drug dealRead More
Susan reviews Piper Deez and the Case of the Winter Planet by M. Fenn
Piper Deez and the Case of the Winter Planet is a hardboiled scifi mystery by M. Fenn; Piper Deez is sent to investigate thefts on a mining planet owned by the clan that she serves, where there are definitely no factions, no bubbling undercurrents of resentment, and only a few murders. Hello, I don’t knowRead More
Whitney D-R reviews Motor Crush Volume 1
Domino Swift lives Nova Honda, a city where almost everyone lives and breathes racing. You’re either a sponsored racer in the World Grand Prix or racing at night against biker gangs. If you’re Domino Swift, you do both. From the very first page, you’re rooting for Domino. You want her to “crush” the competition, evenRead More
Megan Casey reviews A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter
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
Megan Casey reviews Only Lawyers Dancing by Jan McKemmish
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
Marthese reviews A Harvest of Ripe Figs by Shira Glassman
‘’Not everybody reads encyclopaedias for fun’’ A Harvest of Ripe Figs is the third book in the Mangoverse series. It takes place a bit after the epilogue in the second book. I loved this book so much I binge read it. This book combines two genres which I love: fantasy and mystery. Shulamit and her familyRead More
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