murder mystery

If you've ever longed to be on tour with a long-lived, hot stuff rock band, this book is your backstage pass.  When sleazy biographer Perry Dillon plans a tell-all book about the British rock band Blacklight, he's setting himself up for the kill, and that's just the beginning of this tale of drugs, sex, rock and roll, and murder.  Caution: the language in this book is explicit, vulgar,

It's bad enough to lose your husband without being accused of his murder.  That's what Laurel Hatcher is facing, and, after two years and a hung jury, she is trying to put the pieces together and find something, anything, to prove her innocence.  Dan Ryan wants to believe in her, but things don't add up, and his boss at the police station makes it clear he wants to be kept in the loop.  Laurel and Dan's growing attraction for each other is soon shattered by attempts on Laurel's life.  They need to find out who murdered Laurel's husband, but will they find out in time?

Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter

(Dell - 2007)

Rating: Very Good

This is the 6th book in Slaughter's series about Sara, Jeffrey, and Lena of Grant County.

In this story, Jeffrey, the police chief, is called to a neighbouring country where Lena, one of his detectives, has been arrested. Lena was found sitting outside a car in which a woman had been set on fire and burned to death. Jeffrey and his wife Sara, paediatrician and coroner, have to figure out if Lena is guilty.

4 Stars! ~~~ Another page turning suspense with lots of sizzle and sass for flavour!

Glory in Death by J. D. Robb

Berkley ~ December 1995

Book Two of the “In Death” series

Brilliance Audio ~ 2008

Narrator Susan Ericksen

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Philly Prep teacher Amanda Pepper has her hands full in this one, as the self-styled Moral Ecologists attack their reading program and the generous donation to the school's library by Neddy & Tea Roederer.  After Neddy is burned in effigy outside the benefit given at their home, no one realizes this is just a prelude~~~to murder!

2 Stars. A murder mystery, fun, lighthearted read.  Goldy-the main character, was a caterer.  Her ex-father-in-law was poisoned, Goldy became suspect/person of interest, so with the help of her son, she tried to find who put the poison in the food, the story unfolded from there. The jokes were a little bit predictable, but the ending had a twist & susprise element in it. NFM

This was another good one by Heather Graham.  I really like her stories.  I loved all the characters and I must say I was back and forth about who could be the real killer.  I highly recommend this one if you like paranormal and mysteries.  Excellent! 

Dr. Amanda Bell Brown, psychologist, is called to a crime scene by her Medical Examiner sister Carly, where not only does she meet the man of her dreams, she throws up on his shoes.  The perfect way to make an impression...   Jazz Brown (no relation) is so handsome it makes Bell's heart alarms go off.  Trust Bell to fall in love with the one man who is unavailable...

When rain exposes a burial ground, forensic anthropologist Kyra Elliott is called in to make sense of the collection of bones and scraps of fabric.  The FBI agent assigned to help in the investigation, Joshua Richards, is someone Kyra once loved, though he never knew it.  As they begin the painstaking task of identifying the three bodies, working together, they grow to love each other.  But can they find the identity of the serial killer before he strikes again?

Somehow I'd missed this one when I first started reading romances.  Carmel March has a romantic beginning: found under a rosebush in the garden of Commonwood House.  Is she truly half-Gypsy?