Rosario's Reading Journal

The Author of the Month read we do at one of my Yahoo chat groups is supposed to be a bit of a challenge, the opportunity to try things we ...

Well, I finally gathered enough courage to try Anne Stuart 's last year's release, Black Ice . It took quite a while to get into jus...

jmc had a post the other day about academics writing genre fiction , in which she mentioned Joanne Dobson's Karen Pelletier mysteries. ...

I first tried Lillian Stewart Carl because of a recommendation by someone who mentioned she wrote in the vein of Barbara Michaels . I start...

Die In Plain Sight is the third in Elizabeth Lowell 's Rarities, Unlimited , following Moving Target and Running Scared . I've bee...

Eve Silver 's Dark Desires ( excerpt ) is yet another of the books from Zebra's debut authors program, released with a very attract...

It was Wendy who made me want to read The Tutor , by Portia Da Costa (see her blog post about it here ). Her description sounded just wond...

I didn't much like the first Julie Kenner book I read, Silent Confessions . The second one, The Spy Who Loves Me was an improvement. T...

Liz Carlyle 's new trilogy continues with Two Little Lies , sequel to last year's One Little Sin . I was lucky enough to win this on...

Red Lily closes Nora Roberts 's latest trilogy, titled In The Garden . It's been a solidly good one so far, starting with After Blu...

Ruth Rendell (who writes this book as Barbara Vine ) isn't a new author for me. I picked up a few of her books pre-Internet, when I us...

What a Woman Needs , by debut author Caroline Linden really slipped past me this year. I usually take at least a look at the reviews posted...

Stephanie Vaughan was one of my favourite discoveries last year, and as soon as I finished Crossing the Line, I went looking for her backli...

With the exception of Almost Paradise, I've loved every single Susan Isaacs novel I've read, and I think I've probably read th...

Well, I can tell you, after yesterday's post , I'm tired of spreadsheets and pivot tables, so this will be short and sweet ("Go...

I quite liked the first Bethany Campbell book I read, Child's Play , so I went out looking for more. A Thousand Roses was the one I ch...