The trend of lighter reading has been working for me so I thought I’d wrap up April with one more charming novel. Mainly because it combined two things I really love: a favorite TV show and sumptuous descriptions of baking. The novel is Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame and is about Jenny, a 77-year-old British woman who applies to and gets on a national TV show called Britain Bakes. ... Read More...
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
Sara is at a low point when her favorite aunt dies. Her well-reviewed restaurant has closed, she’s bankrupt, and her husband is leaving her and wants custody of their daughter. It’s a mixed blessing when she’s given a letter left to her by the aunt containing a final request, a deed for a piece of land in Sicily, and a plane ticket there. This is the intriguing groundwork laid ... Read More...
My Murder by Katie Williams
When My Murder begins Louise is still getting used to her body, luxuriating in the smallest of its sensations. Every movement feels like a gift and in its way, it is. The real Louise, or the original woman, was one of five women slain by a serial killer and this Louise is a clone. The government has brought all five back to life and returned them to their grieving, ... Read More...
Pineapple Street
The Stocktons are a family of inherited wealth, the kind whose trust funds have trust funds. Cord works with their father at the family’s real estate investment firm, but beyond that jobs are not anything his sisters Georgina and Darley have ever given thought to. Money or more importantly the lack of money is not a concept understood in Jenny Jackson’s debut, Pineapple ... Read More...
The Woman on the Ledge
After a woman is found dead on the pavement in front of a London highrise office building, Tate Kinsella is brought in for questioning on suspicion of murder. She tells the police that she had met the as-yet unidentified woman on the building’s rooftop terrace and that the woman was going to kill herself by jumping until Tate had talked her out of it. Either the woman had gone ... Read More...
Diva: A Novel
I’ve loved celebrity and pop culture since I was a teen when I would beg my mother to buy me trashy magazines in the grocery store with the promise that I would pay her back (I’m still in arrears on that debt). So even though it played out back in the 1960s I was well aware of the scandal surrounding the relationship between American royalty Jackie Kennedy and Greek tycoon, ... Read More...
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