Lexi George Has Struck Gold Again!

Demon Hunting in a Dive Bar

By Lexi George

Copyright February 2013

Publisher: Brava

 

Rebekah “Beck” Damian runs a demonoid bar where everyone’s welcome—even a reformed flesheater who’s strictly vegetarian, a musical ghost who’s looking for a piano bar, and a feline harbinger of doom named Wampus Kitty who’s scaring the customers. So when a big strapping demon-hunter walks into the bar, Beck knows it’s not the end of the world. She’ll treat him like any other customer.

If only she could. Conall Dalvahni is the toughest, meanest, sexiest demon-hunter Beck’s ever seen—and she’s finding it hard to hide her attraction. As far as Conall’s concerned, the feeling is mutual. But how can he trust a beautiful half-demon babe like Beck—when her demonic friends have the perfect weapon to destroy every hunter on earth?

 

This is the third book in the Demon Hunting Series.  Each one showcases another member of the Dalvahni “brother’s” lives and adventures in our dimension.  Beck Damian is the owner and manager of a demonoid bar.

Connall Dalvahni has been hanging out at Beck’s place trying to decide whether he should destroy her or not since she is half demon.  She puzzles the hell out of him because she doesn’t “smell” like a demon.  As the story unfolds Beck is employing a number of new people in the place.  She takes in a Vegetarian Zombie and a ghostly piano player.  Connall decides that she is the one he needs to help stop a major incursion by demon’s who have a new weapon to destroy him and his brothers.  The sparks fly, not only in battle but between Beck and Connall.

Lexi George has struck again. This third book in her Demon Hunting series is the most mind boggling one to date.  I’ve been totally drawn into the action and intrigue of this series right from the beginning… I started because the title of the book was so unusual and catchy, and stayed for the fighting, the romance, and the action.   I think you will also.

FTC FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book from the publisher who only asked for a fair and impartial review.

Under the Gun Definitely Hits the Target

Under the Gun

By Hannah Jayne

Copyright February 2013

Publisher Kensington Urban Fantasy

When you’re near the top of the Underworld Detection Agency, the claws really come out…

Quick thinking and loyalty have taken human Sophie Lawson a long way in the UDA—along with a healthy dose of magic immunity. But when her old boss Pete Sampson asks for help after a mysterious two-year disappearance, she’s determined to find out what high-placed demon has put two ruthless werewolf killers on his tail. Of course, sucking up to her icy vampire department head and negotiating a treacherous inter-office demon battle are the kind of workplace politics that could easily get a “breather” way worse than reprimanded. And sexy fallen angel Alex is doing whatever it takes to heat up Sophie’s professional cool and raise feelings she’s done her best to bury. Too bad their investigation is about to uncover the Agency’s darkest secrets…and powerful entities happy to sign one inquisitive human’s pink slip in blood…

What would you do if your former boss, who everyone thinks is dead shows up at your apartment?  If you are Sophie Lawson you will be looking for a way to help him,  and at the same time find out who is killing supernaturals .

This is the fourth book in the Underworld Detection Agency series, and each adventure gets better and better.  Sofie and her friends have to use all their wits and any and all luck they have to stay alive long enough to solve multiple problems.  I love this series and have been following it from the first book.  I hope you will pick up a copy, enjoy it as much as I do, and share it with your friends.

FTC Full Disclosure: I received my ARC of this book from the publisher who only requested a fair and impartial review.

Special Guest Post – Kari Lee Townsend author of Trouble in the Tarot

I’m taking another day off and turning the blog over to a friend and neighbor (we live in the same state) Award Winning Author Kari Lee Townsend.

TROUBLE IN THE TAROT (book 3 of the Fortune Teller Mysteries – March 5, 2013)

For psychic Sunshine Meadows, sometimes fortunes can be deceiving…

Lately Sunny has been experiencing a period of big opportunity: her business in Divinity, New York, is thriving, and Detective Mitch Stone has finally agreed to take Sunny on a date. But thanks to her clairvoyant abilities, Sunny knows better than anyone that life deals out bad cards along with the good.

When Sunny agrees to read tarot cards at the annual summer Solstice Carnival, she meets her Granny Gert’s “arch nemesis” Fiona Atwater, and is overcome by a vision of Fiona in a violent argument. Sunny knows trouble is brewing when Granny and Fiona start having squabbles all over town. But the fighting comes to a head when a local baker gets run over by a big white Cadillac—and Granny and Fiona are found at the crime scene.

Sunny knows she should step aside and let Mitch handle the investigating, but she’s not about to ignore her visions and leave her granny’s life in fate’s hands…

 

Granny Gert’s Top 10 Cookies for Everything!

 

• 10 ~ Romance ~ Hershey Kiss Cookies are so romantic
• 9 ~ Broken Heart ~ Double Chocolate Chip for when the romance doesn’t work out
• 8 ~ Loss ~ Raison Oatmeal Cookies for the old-fashioned comfort of home
• 7 ~ Anxiety ~ Molasses Spice Cookies ooze relaxation and warm your heart
• 6 ~ Illness ~ Peanut Butter Cookies give you energy and protein to fix you right up
• 5 ~ Anger ~ Oreo Cookies are great for attacking the cream filling and releasing anger
• 4 ~ Jealousy ~ Pistachio Cookies are such a pretty green to turn your mood around
• 3 ~ Celebration ~ Frosted Sugar Cookies are a shiny, sparkly party in your mouth
• 2 ~ Guilt & Innocence ~ Half Moon Cookies tell both sides of the story
• 1 ~ Perfect Cookie for Any Occasion ~ Special K Bars!

 

I grew up on Special K Bars and proceeded to make them for my family and pass on the tradition. They were the first cookies I ever made. So easy, yet they look like they took a lot of time. I usually don’t share my cookie recipes, but since you all are just so darn nice, I decided to share the deliciousness J Enjoy!

 

Special K Bars

 

1 cup light Karol syrup

1 cup sugar

1 ½ cups peanut butter

6 cups Special K Cereal

1 bag Hershey’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

 

Melt chocolate chips (double boiler style) on the stove. While chips are melting, bring 1 cup Karol syrup and 1 cup sugar just to a boil and then remove from heat. Stir in 1 ½ cups of peanut butter until melted. Stir in 6 cups Special K Cereal until mixed well. Press mixture into 9×13 inch pan. Pour melted chocolate chips over the top and refrigerate until hardened. Cut into bars and enjoy!

 

Kari Lee Townsend lives in central New York with her understanding husband, her three busy boys, and her oh-so-dramatic daughter She is the National Bestselling Author, Agatha & RT Reviewer’s Choice Award nominee for her Fortune Teller Mystery series. Kari also writes romance under the name Kari Lee Harmon. Small towns, mystical elements, quirky characters and a few chuckles along the way are what her books are all about. To find out more about Kari and all of her books, check out her websites at: www.karileetownsend.com & www.karileeharmon.com

 

Trouble in the Tarot is a Magical Treat

Trouble in the Tarot

By Kari Lee Townsend

Copyright:  March 2013

Publisher Berkeley Prime Crime

For psychic Sunshine Meadows, sometimes fortunes can be deceiving . . .

Lately Sunny has been experiencing a period of big opportunity: her business in Divinity, New York, is thriving, and Detective Mitch Stone has finally agreed to take Sunny on a date. But thanks to her clairvoyant abilities, Sunny knows better than anyone that life deals out bad cards along with the good.

When Sunny agrees to read tarot cards at the annual Summer Solstice Carnival, she meets her Granny Gert‘s “arch nemesis” Fiona Atwater, and is overcome by a vision of Fiona in a violent argument. Sunny knows trouble is brewing when Granny and Fiona start having squabbles all over town. But the fighting comes to a head when a local baker gets run over by a big white Cadillac—and Granny and Fiona are found at the crime scene.

Sunny knows she should step aside and let Mitch handle the investigating, but she’s not about to ignore her visions and leave her granny’s life in fate’s hands . . .

Sunny didn’t quite agree to read tarot at the annual Summer Solstice Carnival. Granny Gert pushed, pulled, chivvied, and basically guilted her into it by playing on her love of animals.  The money raised from the profits of the carnival was going to the new animal shelter in town.

So here she sits setting out her fortune telling supplies while her cat Morty (who has a traditional fortune telling turban tied on his head) give her what in our house would be the traditional “duh, ya think?” look.  Granny Gert group Trixie’s Sewing Circle was in charge of the carnival this year and they’d chosen .

So on an early Friday morning Sunny (not an early riser) was setting up her booth in the Gazebo, set in the middle of the park.  After hanging her shingle (five times)  from the roof which reads Sunny’s Sanctuary, a gentleman named Harry fixed it so it would stay up. Thereby giving her hope that maybe this week would turn out better then she’d hoped.  Sunny offered to do a reading  for Harry as sort of a thank you payment but he declined, explaining that he has a fishing pole waiting for him back at Divine Inspiration, the Inn her parents always stayed at.

Setting up the table by putting a silk scarf over it and setting out elemental symbols around the table representing the earth, air, fire and water.  Little knowing that her week would devolve into a murder , with her Granny Gert as one of the prime suspects.

I love this series (and own all of them) and think the characters are  very well thought out. Between Sunny, her disapproving parents, her cat Morty who knows Sunny is his, and Granny Gert, along with the ancillary townspeople make this a treat to read and twisty enough to have you wondering till the very end.

I’m not going to say any more… Not because of spoilers, but because I want you to be salivating at the thought of getting a copy of the book into your hot little hands and spending a wonderful afternoon or evening enjoying the story.

FTC FULL DISCLOSURE: I was given a copy of the book by the author who only requested a fair and impartial review.

SPECIAL NOTE:  Author Kari Lee Townsend will be guest hosting on my blog on March 12th.  Please stop by and talk to her… ask questions, or just leave comments and thoughts about this book and the whole series.

 

The Christie Curse Comes Out as a 5 Star Winner

The Christie Curse

By: Victoria Abbott

Copyright March 2013

Publisher Berkeley Prime Crime

 

In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared—making headlines across the world—only to show up eleven days later at a spa under an assumed name. During those eleven days, did she have time to write a play?

Jordan Kelly needs a new job and a new place to live. She’s back in Harrison Falls, New York, living with her not so law-abiding uncles, in debt thanks to a credit card–stealing ex and pending grad school loans.

Enter the perfect job, a research position that includes room and board, which will allow her to spend her days hunting down rare mysteries for an avid book collector. There’s just one problem: her employer, Vera Van Alst—the most hated citizen of Harrison Falls.

Jordan’s first assignment is to track down a rumored Agatha Christie play. It seems easy enough, but Jordan soon finds out that her predecessor was killed while looking for it, and there is still someone out there willing to murder to keep the play out of Vera’s hands. Jordan’s new job is good…but is it worth her life?  

 

Jordan needs a job and that’s something that is not easily available in her home town.  She answers an ad in the local newspaper for a position that seems perfectly matched to her degree and skills.  When she shows up for the interview she is interviewed by a wheelchair bound women with a scowling face and a nasty temperament.

Vera Van Alst is the most hated woman in the town.  Her family had previously supplied work for almost all the folks in the town until they shut down the shoe factory that they’d owned for multiple generations.   Looking at Jordan Vera tells her that she is wasting her time applying since she is looking for a man to do the job which is the only reason she was asked to appear for the interview, she has a man’s name.  Jordan was getting upset with this woman and wished she could just walk, but she needed this job desperately.  She needs to get out from under her uncles’ eyes, and to pay off her monstrous student loans.

Jordon is finally given a 3 month opportunity to prove herself.  She is asked to research and find a missing work of Agatha Christie’s.

With a lot of effort Jordon starts tracing the object and finds that she is not only not the first to work for Vera on this project, but that her predecessor died while on a trip into NYC regarding a possible purchase.  As the story proceeds Jordan makes new contacts in the book business, puts out calls for information through her uncle’s contacts, and finds herself getting deeper and deeper into a very dark business.

This story, the first in a new series by Victoria Abbott is intriguing and full of twists, turns, bad guys, good guys, and players who will show their true colors further into the book.  I highly recommend it to anyone who wants more than a cute entertaining read.

FTC FULL DISCOLOSURE: I received this book from the author, who only asked for a fair and impartial review.

Warrior Prince Will Fly You Off Into Adventure

Warrior Prince

By Nancy J. Cohen

Copyright: September 2012

Publisher : The Wild Rose Press

When mythologist and Florida resident Nira Larsen accepts a job as tour guide for a mysterious stranger, she’s drawn into a nightmare reality where ancient myths come alive and legendary evils seek to destroy her. To survive, she must awaken her dormant powers, but the only person who can help is the man whose touch inflames her passion.

After a dimensional rift in the Bermuda Triangle cracks open and an ancient enemy invades Earth, Zohar—leader of the galactic warriors known as the Drift Lords—summons his troops. He doesn’t count on a redheaded spitfire getting in his way and capturing his heart.

Nira has the power to defeat the enemy and to enslave Zohar’s soul. Can he trust her enough to accomplish his mission, or will she lure him to his doom?

My Review

This is the first in a new series by the author. It is a Sci/Fi Romance series and totally enjoyable. It features Nira Larsen a Grad Student who specializes in Mythology.  Nira is taking a year off from school to earn money for school. After a few bad interviews, Nira Larsen hopes that this next one will go well.  She enters the offices of Drift World, a new adult role playing park.

The first thing she notices about the office is how shabby it is. Considering how well done Drift World’s park is, she is a bit apprehensive about her interview.  After waiting a few minutes she is introduced to Algie Morar and escorted into a back area for her interview.  At that point Nira begins to feel like Alice after she fell down the rabbit hole.  A person is brought into the interview room and she is asked to “make him appear more human”.  ???????  Say WHAT?

She attempts to leave saying she’s changed her mind and heads for the door. While she is attempting her escape at this point the door blows open and a group of masked hotties enter the room and the battle begins.

If you grew (like I did) watching Flash Gordon on television you will absolutely love this book.  The sense of action and adventure and the feeling that you truly have fallen down the rabbit hole will keep you enthralled until the very end.

FTC FULL DISCLOSURE: I received this book from the author who only expects a fair and impartial review.

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All Natural Murder

By Staci McLaughlin

Copyright: February 2013

Publisher Kensington Mystery

Greetings from Blossom Valley, CA, home of the O’Connell Organic Farm and Spa, where the best in healthy living is sometimes spoiled by untimely murder…

As Dana Lewis settles into a quiet life of tofu this and tofu that, murder a la carte is the last thing she wants on her plate. But when she learns about the death of Monster Truck driver Bobby Joe Jones, frequent philanderer and boyfriend to Dana’s sister, Ashlee, she has no choice but to wipe up the mess. Especially when witnesses last saw Ashlee angrily up in Bobby Joe’s grill at the fairgrounds. With dizzying speed, Dana’s life skids out of control. What else can she do but go into overdrive to save Ashlee’s soy bacon, and stop a deadly killer in his tracks…

What happens when your clueless sister (unless the topic is men, makeup or clothes) has a very public breakup with her latest boyfriend, and tops it off by yelling at him “ Bobby Joe, I’m going to kill you”.

If your name is Dana Lewis, your mother and sister will get you involved with finding the real killer, while still holding down a job with many hats, and not pissing off Gordon, the manager of the O’Connell Organic Farm and Spa.

Dana has no idea how many possible enemies Bobby Joe had, or who actually would benefit from his being dead.  So she takes extended lunch hours, signs in late, leaves early, while still trying to complete all her daily chores.  Jason, her reporter boyfriend is not exactly thrilled that she is getting involved in another murder.  The detective on the case is definitely not happy, especially since his cousin is the Deputy Sheriff who she interacted with just a few months back on another murder.

Between the people Bobby Joe knows and the strangers in town for the big Monster Truck show, Dana’s job is going to be a long and hard one.  The final outcome is going to have you scratching your head and saying… D’uhhh   Why didn’t I figure that out?

FTC Full Disclosure: I received an ARC of this book from the publisher who in return only asked for a fair and impartial review.