The name Heddy Lamarr has long garnered respect and attention amongst American cinema lovers. Known widely for rolls in movies like Samson and Delilah and My Favorite Spy in the 1950s, her work off camera has made her a celebrity all over again more recently. An abusive marriage to an influential arms dealer, a race … Continue reading The Only Woman in the Room
Thank you NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. London in the 1930’s is a time of magic. The city had survived the war and was returning somewhat to a semblance of normality after years of reconstruction with the arts at the center of London life. … Continue reading The Queens of Crime
All Poppy wanted was coffee…and then she showed up - the high school mean girl turned town mean girl. Decades of being teased and humiliated by this girl have been too much for Poppy, so she tries to deflect the incoming humiliation by grabbing the arm of the handsome stranger in front of her in … Continue reading My Phony Valentine
Thank you NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Doris Grandfelt’s murder shocked their community decades ago. Her body dumped in the woods near a park and the murderer never caught. Now, her sister is looking for closure and offering a hefty reward for information … Continue reading Lethal Prey
Have you thawed out from all the snow we got across the country this month? Here in Central Georgia we got two rounds of ice/snow! Not what we are used to at all, but it made for some great reading time - a warm beverage, snow falling outside, and a cuddly blanket completed the perfect … Continue reading January Recap & February Prompts
There was and there was not…a girl named Soraya who was locked away in a tower of the castle where she could do harm. Cursed soon after birth, Soraya’s parents kept her out of view so the kingdom wouldn’t lose faith in the family and their royal lineage. When a magical being presents an opportunity … Continue reading Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Thank you NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Grace Clark has lost her mother and barely knows her father. Mary Leakey has had a storied career in illustrations and archaeology, but her work with her husband and on her own in Africa made her a … Continue reading Follow Me to Africa
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is like most high school girls – she and her friends hang out, go to parties, and are studying hard to get into college. But when her senior capstone project has Pip investigating the deaths of two students a few years older than her, Pip finds herself alone and unsure who she can … Continue reading A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Thank you NetGalley and Interactive Publications Pty Ltd for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Rosa always loved to read. It was a hobby her mother loathed, but her father loved. Living in a traveling Gypsy caravan meant needing to travel light – Rosa’s books were sparse but treasured because … Continue reading Daughters of the Fatherland
It’s every administration’s worst nightmare – a terrorist attack on an assembly of the high-ranking government officials. It’s the entire reason the Designated Survivor policy was put into place – putting one official in a protected site away from the assembly in case something happens. With the Capitol under siege by an unknown mastermind and … Continue reading Designated Survivor
