(Reading has been difficult for me lately because I just can't seem to find a comfortable position.
You can read more about that at Living with FM and OA.)
Title: Chili con Corpses
Author: J.B. Stanley
ISBN:978-0-7387-1259-8
Publisher: Midnight Ink/Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 275
The voices of small town America are clearly alive and well in J.B. Stanley's latest installment in the Supper Club series.
If you're looking for all-out action, blood, guts, gore, or gratuitous sex, you won't find it here. If you're looking forward to a well-written tale about murder in a small town and how a group of friends band together to solve it, you've found just the right book.
Chili con Corpses has our dieting-together-friends joining a Mexican cooking class. Their group soon expands to include the local reporter and her best friend from college - who just happens to not only be blond and beautiful but has an identical twin sister. It doesn't take long for the friends to be in deep guacamole and treading in hot jalapeno pepper soup when one of the twins winds up dead.
To further confuse those attempting to solve the crime, the dead twin had filled in for her sister at the last minute on a school field trip. Did the killer murder the wrong twin? What skeletons do, or did, the twins have lurking in their past? Will the killer be back to kill the right one?
Do James and Lucy get back together? Has James' crotchety artist-dad found love again with Milla, owner of the Fix 'n Freeze?
An engaging story. Delightful read.
(If you'd like to know more about J.B. Stanley, please contact her publicist PJ Nunn at Breakthrough Promotions.)
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
To Be Read Stack, Excuses, and ...
My TBR stack is huge. The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff is at the top of the stack. It has received rave reviews from the likes of Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives.
I'm finding it a little slow getting started, but won't give up because PJ Nunn of Breakthrough Promotions has said it's a very good book. I value her opinion.
PJ has also sent me Chili con Corpses by J.B. Stanley. This is the third installment of the Supper Club Mystery series and sounds like a fun read. It's next on the list.
And ... Consequences of Sin, a first novel by Clare Langley-Hawthorne, who has lived in England, Canada, Australia, and now makes her home in the U.S.
AND ... The Olive Horseshoe by Ben F. Small.
I believe strongly that we must do what we can to provide for ourselves. It is this training that keeps me canning and preserving food for my family, and away from reading for the summer. I' m also an avid Freecycler, believing that keeping millions of tons of usable and durable goods out of the landfills is a worthwhile cause.
This summer has been a tough time for me physically. My movement has been hampered by a pinched nerve in my neck. I'm now undergoing physical therapy for the second time this year. You can read about my angst at Living with FM and OA. (Perhaps some of my best writing is done when I'm totally pissed about something.)
I've wanted an online store for a long time. Linda's Gifts and Decor, with thousands of choices for gifts and decorating, is now open for business. The store is a fun place to shop. Special catalogs are available for your group's fundraising efforts. Email me for a complimentary $10 gift card. Fr*e shipping through the end of August!
So now you know what I'm reading and what's keeping me from reading - and what's on my list to be read first. With my right arm going numb, sometimes twice per minute, typing isn't the easiest thing to do.
I'm finding it a little slow getting started, but won't give up because PJ Nunn of Breakthrough Promotions has said it's a very good book. I value her opinion.
PJ has also sent me Chili con Corpses by J.B. Stanley. This is the third installment of the Supper Club Mystery series and sounds like a fun read. It's next on the list.
And ... Consequences of Sin, a first novel by Clare Langley-Hawthorne, who has lived in England, Canada, Australia, and now makes her home in the U.S.
AND ... The Olive Horseshoe by Ben F. Small.
I believe strongly that we must do what we can to provide for ourselves. It is this training that keeps me canning and preserving food for my family, and away from reading for the summer. I' m also an avid Freecycler, believing that keeping millions of tons of usable and durable goods out of the landfills is a worthwhile cause.
This summer has been a tough time for me physically. My movement has been hampered by a pinched nerve in my neck. I'm now undergoing physical therapy for the second time this year. You can read about my angst at Living with FM and OA. (Perhaps some of my best writing is done when I'm totally pissed about something.)
I've wanted an online store for a long time. Linda's Gifts and Decor, with thousands of choices for gifts and decorating, is now open for business. The store is a fun place to shop. Special catalogs are available for your group's fundraising efforts. Email me for a complimentary $10 gift card. Fr*e shipping through the end of August!
So now you know what I'm reading and what's keeping me from reading - and what's on my list to be read first. With my right arm going numb, sometimes twice per minute, typing isn't the easiest thing to do.
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