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Lookin’ For Love

Cocaine and Champagne Author: Susen Edwards It’s 1963 and Ava is sure that she can escape her unloving parents through marriage. Before the honeymoon is over, she regrets her choice. Her husband is a violent alcoholic. Two little boys later, nothing has changed. Her children are witnessing their mother being slowly destroyed, and with nowhere to go, she leaves her husband and starts a dissolute life of go-go dancing, hoping to make enough money to keep body and soul together. Starved for affection, overworked and undervalued, with no support network, Ava devolves into the seedy world of drugs and alcoholism, ultimately [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-17T18:39:58-07:00September 17th, 2024|Tags: addiction, book review, fiction, read, reading|

Consultant, The

Bosses from Hell Author: Bentley Little There is no denying it – the corporate world is full of hellish bargains, backroom backstabbing, evil schemes, and nose-diving employee morale. What better “normal” location to showcase the unique, insidious horror of the everyday? What if the amoral creature that lurked in your work corridors wasn’t just your terrible boss, but a demonic presence with a mysterious goal, a goal that made you (and everyone else) entirely expendable, physically and mentally? What if there was more to it all than corporate profits, and what if termination was a lot more ominous than unemployment and [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-15T15:53:01-07:00September 15th, 2024|Tags: book review, Comedy, horror, paraody, read, reading|

Murder Buys a One-Way Ticket

Jaine on a Train Author: Laura Levine Jaine is looking to keep herself in Chunky Monkey when a new ghost-writing opportunity appears. Chip Miller, aka Iron Man, is a wealthy gym owner. When he’s not jet-setting on his private train car, he’s running on his treadmill, visiting his gym, making his special Iron Man martini, and lambasting his family and loyal friends. Chip is ready to write an exercise book for the every-man or every-woman, something to promote his methods and his gym. If Jaine can get it, with her craving for savory snacks and her elastic waist pants, anyone can! [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-15T14:30:30-07:00September 15th, 2024|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, read, reading|