This week, I’ve been trying to read through some of the book pile as I tackle my The Other Daughter revisions. I’ve been blessed with a couple of good friends who send me book care packages (hi, Vicki and Claudia!), so this week’s haul is mostly from them. — Isabelle Holland, Counterpoint. Thanks to the…

Since I’m immersed in dread revisions, the horrible, scary bit where you’ve torn apart the book but haven’t put it back together yet (and are beginning to wonder whether the original version was really that bad or if maybe you should be giving it all up and trying sheep-farming), it was time for some serious…

It’s been a bit of a blurry week (my toddler has decided that sleep is for other people), so I’m having a rather hard time remembering what I’ve read and if I read. But two books stand out: — Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy, in which a redoubtable young lady reorganizes her relations. Some of…

This has been a rather sleepy reading week for me. I did something I usually never do: I re-read two of my own books, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily and The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, to make sure that I had various bits of Jack’s and Jane’s backstories right for the upcoming Lure…

Hi, all! Apologies for not being around much on the website recently. It’s been a bit of a crazy fall so far. But I’ll have more If You Likes and Teaser Tuesdays for you soon! In the meantime, here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Florence King, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. I…

It’s been a week of books set in England. The other things that these books have in common? They’re good misty day, cup of tea reads. But other than that, they fall into two very different categories: — Elizabeth George’s Lynley mysteries. I went through a huge Lynley phase back in law school. I’d first…

Since plague has struck my household (bring out your tissues!), it seemed like a good time for comfort reads, in the form of two old favorite madcap mysteries that I hadn’t re-read in a bit: –Dorothy Cannell’s The Thin Woman, in which our heroine hires an escort for a family event, and, a few months…

I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, but there have been some gems amid the grumpiness. This week’s gems? Carla Kelly’s Marrying the Royal Marine, set in Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars, in which the ugly duckling sister finds herself on an unexpected adventure when she joins her sister in staffing a hospital…

I had a big treat this week: an early copy of Simone St. James’s upcoming book, The Other Side of Midnight! In this one, a reluctant medium finds herself drawn into a former friend’s murder inquiry, pulling her back into a world that she’s been avoiding since their big falling out years before. As always,…

I’ve been living in the 1920s for so long now, that I desperately needed to read something that wasn’t a) anywhere near the Twenties, or b) set in England. So this week’s haul was: — Jo Goodman’s In Want of a Wife. We all have those ridiculous plot tropes we secretly love. One of mine…