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RWA Conference: Friday
Sometime during the conference I discovered that it is indeed possible to check my email on my Kindle (the keyboard model with 3G), although the process is somewhat eyestrain inducing. Friday morning...
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Death, Taxes, and Diane Kelly
A few days ago I finished reading Diane Kelly’s Death, Taxes, and a Skinny No-Whip Latte. I’m afraid this isn’t exactly hot news–the book was released in March–but if you visit here now and then you...
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Another Winner from Diane Kelly
And another roller coaster ride for Tara Hollway, Diane’s feisty IRS Special Agent heroine. Well, not an actual roller coaster, but in Death, Taxes and Extra-Hold Hairspray, Tara does manage to stay...
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Welcome, 2013!
The weather has been grey today, the temperature dropping from a morning high of 57 degrees. I went out to get my newspaper at 8:30 and haven’t been out the door since. I spent a chunk of the morning...
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Changing Habits
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. All of us can (and probably should) say that every day, but this week marks real change for me. Some months ago, Jo Anne and I started planning for...
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And More Books
When I cut my work schedule back to three days a week a couple of months ago, I was hoping to catch up on reading. Well, not catch up, really, since I continue to buy books faster than I read them,...
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Diane Kelly’s Paw Enforcement
Paw Enforcement is the first book in a new series by Diane Kelly, author of the hilarious Tara Holloway mysteries. Tara’s adventures have been on my auto-buy list since the first installment (Death,...
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Another Box of Books
When I got home from work last night, I found a lovely box of books on my doorstep. Now, you might think, with all the (mostly free) books I brought home from the RWA conference, that I wouldn’t need...
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Recent Reading: Mystery
I recently came across Robert Goldsborough’s When Archie Met Nero Wolfe on an ebook special, and downloaded it to my Kindle. Back in my voracious mystery-reading days, I read all of Rex Stout’s Nero...
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Chet & Brigit: Dog Detectives
I don’t have a dog of my own these days, but I’ve been keeping up with the adventures of two favorite canine detectives, Spencer Quinn’s Chet and Diane Kelly’s Brigit. Besides their work as...
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Mystery Round Up
Julie Mulhern’s The Deep End is the first in her new Country Club Murders series, set in Kansas City in the 1970s. When Ellison Russell goes for her usual early morning swim in the country club pool,...
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Tara Holloway Is Back
Tara Holloway, gun-toting Special Agent of the IRS, returns in Diane Kelly’s latest novel, Death, Taxes, and a Satin Garter, and she’s just as feisty—and funny—as ever. . In this outing, Tara is...
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Three Funny Books
The only thing these three recent reads have in common is that they made me laugh. Since that’s my favorite kind of book, it’s what you’re likely to find here more often than not. . Razor Girl: I love...
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Three Murders & a Death
Arlene McFarlane’s Murder, Curlers & Cream introduces Valentine Beaumont, beautician and amateur detective. It’s not that Valentine wants to be a sleuth—she’s already trying to live down a past...
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More Series Mystery
In Enforcing the Paw, Fort Worth PD Officer Megan Luz and her canine partner Brigit run into a puzzling situation: two ex-lovers who each claim the other is harassing them. Vandalism, stalking,...
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And More Mystery Reviews
I’m running out of titles for these review collections—obviously my reading has leaned heavily to cozy mysteries of late. On the other hand, as I write this I’m reading one alternate history novel (The...
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Mysteries With Humor
Mystery and humor make up just about my favorite combination in reading for pleasure (which, come to think about is, is just about all of my reading). Here are the latest installments in three series I...
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Mysteries: Three Firsts and a Third
Diane Kelly begins a new series with Dead as a Door Knocker, featuring apprentice house flipper Whitney Whitaker and her cat Sawdust. Whitney is an experienced carpenter and property manager, but the...
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Love and Humor
I will read just about anything Diane Kelly writes (her grocery lists are probably funny), and Busted, a romance about a small town motorcycle cop named Marnie Muckleroy and a visiting Silicon Valley...
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Three More Series Cozies
Dead in the Doorway is the second installment in Diane Kelly’s House Flipper cozy mystery series, set in Nashville. Whitney Whitaker and her cousin and business partner Buck have bought a house on...
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