Reading Recommendations with Harriet Michael
What was your favorite picture book as a kid? I was born and spent my childhood in Nigeria, West Africa as a missionary kid. Because we had to bring our possessions with us in Nigeria in shipped barrels, we had had limited space so I didn’t have as many books [...]
Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec (book review)
Get your copy here! At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found murdered. Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team take on the investigation and narrow the list of suspects down to five people, including a rising political star, a longtime friend of the victim and [...]
Countdown by Lynette Eason (book review)
Get your copy here! Flight paramedic Raina Price has been running so long it's hard to stop. To escape a dangerous stalker, she changed her name and disappeared, building a new life with the help of a friend from her time in juvie. It feels good to put her energies [...]
Death in the Park by London Lovett (book review)
Get your copy here! With her social life and writing career in tatters at the ripe old age of thirty-five, Sunni Taylor decides to pack up her things and join her sisters, Lana and Emily, in the small town of Firefly Junction. Hoping to open a bed and breakfast, Sunni [...]
Snowflakes and Sparks by Sophie-Leigh Robbins (book review)
Get your copy here! The best fake snow decorations in L.A.? Done by me. About to get a promotion? Also me. Sent to a sleepy small town right before Christmas to save a bookstore? Unfortunately, me again. Old Pine Cove was the one place on earth I had sworn I’d [...]