WIP Snippet: Evalyce Quaestors

Here’s a snippet from my current work in progress. The chapter has no title yet. ?     “Who’s there?” My voice was sharper than intended. More rustling, coming from behind a stack of wooden crates, and a towheaded boy no older than five tumbled into view.     “What’cha lookin’ for?”, he asked.     “You first, whelp. […]

Book Review: Daughters of Carrawburgh by Nigel Plane

This book was reviewed for Troubadour Publishing Limited via Netgalley Daughters of Carrawburgh is a first-rate psychological thriller that you simply can’t put down! I lost myself in this book, and finished it in a single day, so engrossing was it. Sam Layton is a spiritualist. Not the cold reader, the charlatan psychic who is […]

Book Review: Prospect for Murder by Jean Burrows-Johnson

This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review   Burrows-Johnson’s cozy mystery Prospect for Murder is set in the Hawai’ian Islands, proving that even Paradise has its dark side. We begin with the odd occurrence of our protagonist having a psychic vision. Both she and her brother have unique gifts, different yet complementary. Sadly, […]

Book Review: Echoes of Sherlock Holmes, edited by Laurie R King

This book was reviewed via Netgalley   Echoes of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most enduring character, written by a variety of authors. Some stories are set in modern times, others in Holmes’ own time. Some feature versions of Holmes and Watson themselves, others are faint […]

Book Review: Murder and the Making of English CSI by Burney and PembertonPemberton

This book was reviewed for the Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews Burney & Pemberton’s Murder and the Making of English CSI looks at the birth and development of crime scene investigating through the lens of a single sociocultural point- England. This field of study, in its broadest sense, has fascinated me for nearly three decades. […]