Tag: debut novel

• Book Review: The Gardener‘s Plot: A Mystery by Deborah J. Benoit

  First of all, when I read the author’s bio for this book, I was 100% IN and immediately requested an ARC of this new mystery from Macmillan Publishers via NetGalley. This is Deborah Benoit’s debut novel and The Gardener’s Plot won the First Crime Novel Competition sponsored by Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America. Prior to…

  michardillo

  June 25, 2024

  books, Essay

  book-review, books, cozy mystery, death, debut novel, fiction, gardener, gardening, killer, mystery, novel, reading, writer, writing

• Book Review: When the Moon Turns Blue by Pamela Terry

  “You can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl.” The older I get, the more I identify with this old saying.  I’m a Southern girl, born and raised in Louisiana, but have now lived in Maryland (NOT the South, no matter what you Yankees say…

  michardillo

  October 12, 2022

  books

  Bury What We Cannot Take, debut novel, Georgia, Kim Wright, Kirstin Chen, NetGalley, Pamela Terry, Paul Bunyan operetta, racism, sophomore novel, Southerner, Soy Sauce for Beginners, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines, W. H. Auden, When the Moon Turns Blue