Audible / Book Review: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Mary Russell c/o Laurie R King

I have read Ms Russell’s delightful Beekeeper’s Apprentice, and when I had the chance to snag an audible of it, I was thrilled. Ms Sterlin is a fabulous, creative narrator with a gift for voices. I particularly like Sherlock’s low drawl. I’m very picky about narrators, and happy that my favourite series has a most […]

Poem: Shadows on the Wall

© Aislynn d’Merricksson, 2017 Shadows on the wall, stained forevermore, ghosts heavy with the weight of the past. To see, to see- indifferent destruction waged from afar. People cease being real, mere numbers on a chart, faceless and distant. No chance to see- we are the same. Flesh and blood, hopes and dreams. Gone in […]

Book Review- Tune Up: Secret of Mylin by Joe Klingler

***This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review Klingler’s Tune Up: Secret of Mylin is an intense mystery set in modern day California and Nevada. It begins with a questionable traffic accident that proves to be less an accident than premeditation upon closer inspection. An elderly Chinese woman is struck by a motorcycle […]

Book Review: Venetian Blood by Christine Volker

***This book was reviewed for She Writes Press via Netgalley & for the Manhattan Book Review   Volker’s Venetian Blood weaves alluring language, seductive setting, the charm of shadowed history, and cunning intrigue into a (modern) historical mystery so tantalising you will be swept away from word one.   Anna Lucia Lottol, a financial investigator […]

Spotlight: The Misadventures of Lady Ophelia by Christina McKnight

  Title: The Misadventures of Lady Ophelia Series: The Undaunted Debutantes Series (Book Three) Author: Christina McKnight Genre: Historical Romance, Regency England Release Date: July 11, 2017 Word Count: 70,000     Synopsis Quiet, reserved, Lady Ophelia Fletcher always has her nose stuck in a book; hence why she didn’t witness the death of her […]

Book Review: Bathing Strictly Prohibited by Michael Rhodes

***This book was reviewed for Troubadour Publishing Limited via Netgalley   Bathing Strictly Prohibited is a beautiful, haunting collection of poetry, whose language evokes times long past, breathing shape to the ephemeral. The poems are divided into two categories- places, and moments. Some of my favourites were Dawn in the Alps, On the site of […]

Shout Out: Gringo by Dan “Tito” Davis w/ Peter Conti

Story Summary Dan “Tito” Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that’s so small everyone knows their neighbor’s cat’s name. But once he got out, he made some noise. While at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, he started manufacturing White Crosses, aka speed, and soon had the Banditos Motorcycle Club distributing ten million pills […]