“I met Frank Bellarosa on a sunny Saturday in April at Hicks’ Nursery…” Long Islanders will know why the very first line in The Gold Coast made me smile. This was the […]
Book Review: The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille – The Gilded Age in Decline
Book Review: Vanquish by Bradley Wright – With So Many Good Writers Out There, How Did This Get Published?
The first book in the Xander King series by Bradley Wright was recommended to me somewhere along the line. My review of Whiskey & Roses was tepid, but sometimes series will get […]
Book Review: Put the Needle on the Record – An Art Almost Lost
I’m a child of the 1980’s. My late teens and early 20’s encompassed that decade, and what I remember of it was a lot of fun. There’s a lot of it I […]
Book Review: Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille – DeMille’s Thrilling Take on Home-Grown Terrorism
Of all the detective series with gritty, smart-aleck detectives, I have to say that John Corey grates on me the most. I have a love/hate relationship with these books because the stories […]
Book Review: Cop Hater by Ed McBain – 1950s Police Mystery
I’m not quite sure where I first heard about the “87th Precinct” books. It likely came up as a recommendation after reading some of Michael Connelly’s Bosch series. I enjoy books where […]
Book Review: Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover – The Book Wanted Me To Cry But I Didn’t
I belong to a few book groups on Facebook. In one of those groups, one author’s name keeps coming up as a favorite of the members: Colleen Hoover. I was not familiar […]
Book Review – Hide and Seek: Life Lessons of a Geocacher by Gary Slinkard – Not What I Thought It Would Be
Anyone who follows me knows how much I love to geocache. There are very few books out there about my hobby, though. One author I tried to read who incorporated geocaching into […]
AudioBook Review: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow – The Founding Fathers Were as Divided as We Are Now
I find history fascinating. I likely should have become a historian or a fact-checker and researcher for someone like Ken Burns. When I hear something that intrigues me, I want to know […]
Book Review: Cold Lake by Jeff Carson – Reopening Old Wounds
I have to say that I’m glad I plugged along with this series when the first book kind of threw me off. Author Jeff Carson has managed to combine intrigue and small-town […]
The Hidden Staircase – Nancy Drew Discovers a Ghost and Saves Her Father
Growing up in those “tween years” my hero was Nancy Drew. She had a life I dreamed of, driving around in a nice car given to her as a gift from her […]
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