April 28, 2019 – Jacquie Biggar-USA Today Best-selling author

Sally Cronin shares a recent review for Skating on Thin Ice- Thank you, Robbie and, for the wonderful review and to Sally for spreading the word {{hugs}}

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Welcome to the first of the updates this week… with recent reviews for authors on the shelves of the cafe and bookstore.

The first author with a recent review is Mary Adler for her wartime mystery Shadowed by Death… An Oliver Wright WW II Mystery Book 2. A young Polish freedom fighter is in danger and Oliver Wright must try to protect her..

About Shadowed by Death

San Francisco, 1944. Sophia Nirenska, a Polish resistance fighter who survived the Warsaw ghetto uprising, finds safety in California until someone tries to kill her. She insists political enemies want to silence her, but homicide detective Oliver Wright, on medical leave from the Marines, believes the motive is more personal. He and his German shepherd, Harley, try to protect Sophia, but she insists on doing things her own way—a dangerous decision.

Oliver guards Sophia as they travel from an Italian cafe in…

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The Sisterhood of Suspense’s weekly meme Sneak off and Read brings us the theme- PLEAD.

Word by Word

#OneLineSunday by #RSsos Lines all about PLEAD

Interested in reading more? Click on the book covers below for information about the novel and the author.

How dare she take on that risk alone. He’d begged and pleaded to be the one to go, but she’d left him on the sidelines—helpless.

Jacquie Biggar

A young woman looked over at them with pleading eyes. “Please don’t let it burn down. We have nowhere else to go.

Sam Bradley w/a McKenna Sinclair

If Kaitlin or any of the others suggested lunch, I would plead a previous commitment.

Joanne Guidoccio

“I said almost exactly that to the stars every night. I would stand outside wherever I was and beg you to hold on until I could find you.”

Kathryn Jane

Was it her screams? Her tears? Had she pleaded for her life? Had she passed out from the pain?

Marian Lanouette

Then I looked…

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Top Five Quotes From Books I Love

I’d been poor as shit for my entire life. I’d learned to roll with it most days. Other times, like this morning, it punched me in the teeth.

In Harmony- Emma Scott

I’ve never been hit in the face. My mother didn’t bother disciplining me. Though I saw men hit her and my aunt from time to time, no man has ever hit me, so I didn’t know. I couldn’t have known that the first hit, that baptism into violence, doesn’t just sting the flesh. It startles the soul.

Long Shot- Kennedy Ryan

His children were left behind, like a sock in a drawer that was almost empty, and that was a million times worse than if there was nothing left at all.

Bring Down the Stars- Emma Scott

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a doughnut.

Lost and Found Sisters- Jill Shalvis

Ragged police tape swung from the columns. The double-wide front door had been blown open, like the house had died mid-scream. Like it is still screaming.

Every Deep Desire- Sharon Wray