Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: February 1, 2023

The Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge is hosted by Long and Short Reviews.  This week’s topic is: what I eat in an average day.

Review: The Snowman Killer by Wendy Meadows

Sarah Garland, a retired homicide detective who’s gone through a painful divorce, seems to have found her peace at last, as a coffeeshop owner, in the sleepy (and freezing) small town of Snow Falls, Alaska. What she didn’t expect, was for her past life to catch up with her. Or, for her new life as a mystery writer to inspire a deadly killer to target her.

Yet, when the killer leaves a frightening clue-a creepy snowman, donning a leather jacket and eating a peppermint candy cane, left in front of her cabin-Sarah begins to suspect Conrad Spencer, the new detective in town, who is pursuing a murderer of his own. Soon, it becomes obvious that the sleuths would have to join forces, in order to catch the killer.

Sarah and Conrad must put their tragic pasts behind them and find out who’s after her…before the trail becomes frozen.

Friday Five Writing Challenge: January 27, 2023

This week’s prompts were: decay, archive, confine, sock, and chalk.

Friday Five Writing Challenge: January 20, 2023

This week’s prompts were: museum, rare, build, nonsense, identity

Friday Five Writing Challenge: January 13, 2023

This week’s prompts were: flood, chorus, pollution, sacred, childish.

My hope is to drag this into a longer story with an actual plot.  We’ll see if my muse and Zayne let that happen.  I mean, currently, he’s looking for tacos.

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: January 11, 2023

The Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge is hosted by Long and Short Reviews.  This week’s topic is: what I think of New Year’s Resolutions.

Friday Five: January 6, 2023

This week’s prompts were: whip, permission, election, finished, and legislation.  I kind of cheated and used elect instead of election, but I’m going to run with it.

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: January 4, 2023

The Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge is hosted by Long and Short Reviews.  This week’s topic is: My goals for 2023.

Review: Such a Good Mother by Helen Monks Takhar

Rose O’Connell is barely surviving. Her relationship with her husband is on the rocks and their son has isn’t fitting in at his new school, the prestigious Woolf Academy. Their tiny flat in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood–the very place Rose grew up as the daughter of an infamous local con artist–can barely contain her family. Rose can’t catch a professional break either, trapped in the same junior bank teller role for years. Life as the only mom in a nametag and uniform at The Woolf’s shiny school gates isn’t easy.

Not so for those in the elite and secretive Circle, a tight-knit group of mothers who rule the school, led by the charismatic and glamorous Amala Kaur. In exchange for supporting The Woolf’s relentless fundraising and public image drives, the women enjoy lucrative business opportunities, special privileges for their children, and the admiration of the entire community.

After the mysterious death of one of The Circle’s members, Rose dares to hope that filling the vacancy could set her family up for success. And when Amala makes the shocking decision to invite Rose into their clique, her fortunes, self-esteem, and status soar. But the deeper Rose gets inside The Circle, the darker the secrets lurking within every perfectly Instagrammable life. Far from being a dream come true, being inside The Circle could prove Rose’s worst nightmare…

Review: The Prisoner by B. A. Paris

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne.

But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned?