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Review: Skeletons in the Closet (Shadowy Solutions Book 1) by Nicky James

Rating: 4.5🌈 Nicky James is following up the successful Doyle and Valor police investigation romance series with a new series that is heavily intertwined with the one that preceded it while setting off in often newly emotional and psychological directions. It helps a reader to have knowledge of both the Doyle and Valor stories as well as have read the prequel novella, Invisible Scars, to get a…

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Review: Psyched to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 6) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4.5🌈 Psyched to Death, sixth in Meg Perry’s Jamie Brodie Mysteries series, brings complications to Jamie and his stumbling relationship with psychology professor, Pete. Trouble comes from multiple directions when a past acquaintance turns up dead as it’s not just a random person but someone who was deeply involved with a previous investigation and has ties to Pete’s work. Perry is…

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Review: Death In The Spires by K. J. Charles

Rating: 5🌈 K. J. Charles is such an incredible writer, a word artist with a passion for rich historical settings, layered characters, and complex plot development. All that is apparent here in Death in the Spires. It’s a haunting story that Charles lays out for us immediately. And then in flashbacks. A man , Jeremy “Jem” Kite, is in the process of losing his job. It’s emotionally devastating.…

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Review: Nelson & MacIlwraith (Moon Murder Mysteries #2) by K Sterling

Rating 3.5: This was a hard book to rate as well as read. For all the qualities I loved in the first book, some of those same elements were ones that made this a very frustrating reading experience. Where book one was an expansive exploration of those characters personalities, universe , including the mystical powers and mythology that surrounds them, the second novel narrowed down the focus to…

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Review: Matrimonial Merriment (Valor and Doyle Book 7) by Nicky James

Rating: 3.75🌈 I had real trouble arriving at this rating. Matrimonial Merriment is the last Valor and Doyle book by Nicky James. It’s a 7 book series that I found incredibly strong and emotionally compelling at the start, only, imo, to chart a very strange path for the characters and their various storylines. This story has its strengths and its weaknesses, much like its characters. Quaid…

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Review: Ghostly Target (Ghostly Book 5) by E M Laya

Rating: 4🌈 The Ghostly series continues with Ghostly Target, a book about a killer targeting police officers. This plot switches the focus from the normal plots where the bodies have been found to the detective team of Angus and Franks, and a suspenseful investigation. One officer down, that’s the first body but the killer is shooting at officers, randomly it seems picking targets. So…

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Review: Nelson & MacIlwraith (Moon Murder Mysteries #1) by K Sterling

Rating: 5🌈 K Sterling has become a go to author for me and this book is an excellent example why. Nelson & MacIlwraith, the first in the Moon Murder Mysteries, is steeped in mythologies and cultural traditions. These myths and lores that enrich and at times horrify the characters and readers have been pulled from literary sources and the author’s incredible imagination. To say the Celtic…

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Review: Taken Under Fire (Paranormal Investigative Service Book 3) by Cassidy K. O’Connor and Sheri Lyn

Rating: 4🌈 It’s been 6 months since I read Stitched Under Fire, the 2nd book in this series, so it took me awhile to remember what had happened to the characters and were we were in the various investigations. Turns out Taken Under Fire it’s a very politically and racially charged atmosphere where xenophobia is ramping up, fueled by the revelations that the paranormal body parts could heal…