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Tart of Darkness

The First in a Promising Series Author: Denise Swanson Dani’s life is one disaster after another. Her too-good-to-be-true boyfriend turned out to be engaged to another woman. Her office job forced her to participate in something that still makes her uncomfortable and guilty; something that handy little NDA keeps her from ever talking about. Under this cloud of suspicion and betrayal, a chance windfall starts to turn everything around. Dani has inherited a beautiful old house – a manor really – and enough money to leave the rat race behind and indulge in her true passion: cooking. Despite her father’s rampant [...]

2022-07-26T08:56:52-07:00March 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

As the Pig Turns

A Messy Agatha Mystery Author: M.C. Beaton When a bored Agatha attends a nearby village’s winter pig roast she stumbles into a gruesome web of intrigue. In the darkness of the falling night Agatha notes that the rotating pig is more that it seems – it’s a man with a pig’s head sewn on. The victim is a local policeman: the uncompromising, unlikable Beech. A man Agatha had just threatened publically the day before. The case is on. Despite Agatha’s role as the lead suspect, Beech’s gorgeous ex-wife hires Agatha’s agency to unravel the mystery of his grisly death. It’s a [...]

2022-07-26T08:58:35-07:00March 15th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

When You Finish Saving the World

Self-Therapy and Family Ties Author: Jesse Eisenberg When You Finish Saving the World is a three-part story of a family who confronts their traumas through recorded self-therapy. It begins with Nathan, an unhappy father who cannot connect with his newborn son. He is slowly working his way through the bonding experience (at the insistence of his angry spouse) with the help of a psychiatrist who has him recording and then emailing monologues of his feelings and experiences. Through the recordings, Nathan slowly confronts his issues and limitations, his family problems, and builds a bridge to hope. Next, his wife, Rachel, [...]

2022-07-26T08:59:37-07:00March 14th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |
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