Hello, friends of The Bookcast! “Where have you been, Bill?” is a question I hear a lot lately. I have not closed down The Bookcast, and my absence has not been by choice. Last December there was a fire in our condominium building in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Fortunately no one was injured, but smoke damage to the premises was considerable. In January my wife, cat, and I were forced to relocate to a hotel while…
Fed up with being tied down by twenty-five years of domestic bliss and everyone else’s expectations, Abbie Palmer, struggling to find her creative self and asserting some independence from her husband, moves into the Tiki Palms. But as Abbie finds, in Gay Degani‘s debut suspense…
Television producer Charlie Trager knows he’s lucky to have a successful career and good friends and family who support him. The man he loves, however, is not so lucky. In Laurie Boris‘s novel “Playing Charlie Cool”, Joshua Goldberg suffers the spite of an ex-wife gunning…
Ruby Lambert is the eldest daughter in the eccentric Lambert family of Hingham, Massachusetts. Angus Aleshire is a charming, smart and athletic boy who the Lamberts try to help, and who shares Ruby’s unconventional bent and love of the piano. And, in Amanda Holmes‘s novel…
What do Santa’s Sidekick, a dead lawyer and a geriatric vampire have in common? Well, let’s open Lizz Lund‘s cozy “Christmas Bizarre” and find out…. Meet Mina Kitchen, a forty-something single who finds trouble quicker than she can whip up a batch of breakfast breads.…
