One of my greatest regrets in being a voracious reader (to a tune, on average, of over 300 books a year) is that I don’t often find time to watch movies, at least not for their own sakes. So when I learned that Poisoned Pen Press is reissuing David Dodge’s To Catch A Thief, simultaneously…

I stayed up all night, happily wrecking my already mangled sleep schedule, to finish this propulsive and absolutely diabolical page-turner of a thriller!  The Agarwal family are rich, successful and remarkably tight-knit. Patriarch Raj, fondly known to the younger generation as Papa, built up his petrochemical business from nothing, as he never hesitates to remind…

Cannabis cafe owner Chloe Barnes is thrilled when a famous podcaster not only features her on the wildly popular series Starch Nemesis, but also has nothing but complimentary things to say about her business, Baked By Chloe. Calista Bryant’s podcast has a reputation for tearing eateries that she dislikes apart, so avoiding derision was Chloe’s…

When Charlotte Cross was a young woman living in 1930s New York City, earning a spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt seemed like a dream come true. Their expedition leader, Grayson Zimmerman, is a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who takes a fatherly interest in the only young woman on his crew.…

The tension never lets up in Battle Mountain, the 25th Joe Pickett novel. Legendary game warden Pickett has been in the job for a good long time: his longevity in his post is noted often, as is his legendary reputation. For following the letter of the law.  An evil man, Axel Soledad, has inflicted immeasurable…

My new novel, I Would Die For You, dives into the world of 1980s fandom. Cassie is obsessed with Ben Edwards, lead singer with Secret Oktober, the band of the moment, and there isn’t much she won’t do to get close to him. But he’s got eyes on someone else. A chance meeting with Cassie’s…

If you only went by her Instagram and other social media, Kerry Walsh would be very much living the writer’s dream. After a short story she’d written was published in The New Yorker and went viral, she landed a six-figure publishing deal for a novel based on the story, with potentially more to come given…

I do so enjoy these collections of seasonal cozy novellas from Kensington Books’ roster of accomplished authors! It’s always fun doing a little fresh, quick sleuthing with casts of characters I already know and love. These books are also great for readers new to one or more of the series included, as they often serve…

I genuinely can’t remember the last time I read a spicy rom-com murder mystery, and especially one that works so well on all its genre levels! Sexy, sweet and suspenseful, She Doesn’t Have A Clue is a delight from start to finish. It helps a lot that our heroine, bestselling mystery author Kate Valentine, is…

Genre matters. Even when novels were, well, novel, genre probably mattered. Imagine yourself drawing water from the well or fountain in ye olde square and recommending a book to someone. “Have you read THE TALE OF GENJI yet?” Head shakes. “I don’t read very often, seeing as how it’s the 11th century. What’s it like?”…