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It's time to share another one of Sandie Herron's reviews for those of you who enjoy audiobooks. This time, it's the eighth in Victoria Laurie's Psychic Eye series, A Glimpse of Evil . Thank you, Sandie. A Glimpse of Evil                                                      Series:  Psychic Eye Mystery Book 8 Written by Victoria Laurie Narrated by Eileen Stevens Unabridged Audiobook Listening Length: 8 hours and 28 minutes Publisher: Audible Studios Release Date: July 6, 2010 ASIN: B003VXKC2O **** stars It's almost too much to believe that Abby and her FBI boyfriend Dutch would both find jobs in the same FBI office in Texas as opposed to Michigan AND be followed individually by home contractor Dave, Dutch's old best friend from the police department, while Candace preceded them there and had already bought her ...

I think I'm getting a little tired of the escapades of Stephanie Plum-like characters. Although Kellye Garrett's second Detective By Day mystery, Hollywood Ending , is set in Hollywood, apprentice private eye Dayna Anderson and her best friend, Sienna, are a little too Stephanie and Lulu for me. After solving a hit-and-run case, former commercial spokesperson Dayna Anderson wants to become an apprentice in training to cop turned private investigator Aubrey Adams-Parker. She thinks she’s found the perfect case when Lyla Davis, spokesperson for the upcoming Silver Sphere Awards event, is killed at an ATM. Dayna’s boyfriend, hot actor Omari Grant, had been at that ATM just minutes earlier. Dayna teams up with her best friend, Sienna Hayes, a reality star wannabe, and uses her wiles and connections to probe the social media secrets of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Some people have secrets worth killing for, and Lyla Davis seems to have known them all. Dayna’s soon caught up in Hollywo...

Her breath rose and fell in fearful gasps but it was too late. She could already see what she dreaded most. The back seat was empty. Her little girl was gone. Abigail  lives the perfect life with her doting husband and adorable baby  Izzy . But someone knows a secret about Abigail and they want the truth to be told. When Izzy is snatched from a carpark, it becomes a case for  Detective Robyn Carter . Someone has been sending threatening messages to Abigail from an anonymous number. What is Abigail hiding?  Robyn’s instincts tell her there’s a connection between Izzy’s abduction and two murders she is investigating. But the last time she acted on impulse her fiancé was killed. To break this case and earn her place back on the force, she must learn to trust herself again – and fast. Robyn is on the hunt for a ruthless serial killer. And unless she gets to the twisted individual in time a little girl will die … I downloaded Little Girl Lost after watching a live chat wi...

Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Jane N. from Vashon, WA won These Honored Dead . Suzanne R. of Nashville, TN will receive A Tale of Two Murders . The books will go out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving away two interesting collections - mystery stories. The first one, The Night of the Flood, is a novel told in stories. E.A. Aymar and Sarah M. Chen edited the collection about the night Maggie Wilbourne was to be executed in Pennsylvania. A group of women protesting the execution struck, blowing up a local dam and flooding the town of Everton. Fourteen new authors wrote chapters in this engrossing book, authors such as Jenny Milchman, Wendy Tyson, Alan Orloff and Hilary Davidson. Ten Year Stretch celebrates a decade of crime fiction at CrimeFest in England. Twenty brand new stories were commissioned to celebrate the anniversary. Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller edited the collection. The original stories were written by authors such as Maj Sjowall, Simon...

I really only read the first two pages of this book. I'm reading mysteries again for next Wednesday's deadline. But, I started Jonathan Santlofer's memoir  The Widower's Notebook . It's not going to be easy to read the story of his wife Joy's sudden death, and his attempt to push through the grief. There are eleven quotes from other authors at the front of the book. Andrew Solomon's comments were the ones that summed up the book I'm expecting to read. " The Widower's Notebook is a searing rendition of the complex relationship between men and grief - an intense despair that is too often starved for words. This chronicle of devastation is itself devastating, a deeply powerful and unflinchingly honest report of how painfully and strangely life continues in the wake of a sudden, tragic death." I don't mean to start your day on a somber note. But, that's what I'm starting to read. What are you reading or listening to this week?

I've been waiting to read Paula Matter's debut mystery, Last Call . Readers of the blog know my schedule -  read frantically for deadlines; crash; read for myself for about a week; repeat. I'm looking forward to getting to this book. In the meantime, I asked Paula if she'd answer interview questions. She was kind enough to agree. Thank you, Paula. (And, if you read the entire interview, you'll discover an opportunity to receive a signed copy of Last Call .) Paula, would you introduce yourself to readers?      Hi Lesa, thanks for having me visit your awesome blog! I guess I’ll just offer my official bio: Paula Matter is the author of the Maggie Lewis mysteries which take place in a small town in North Florida. Paula’s short crime fiction stories have been published in USA and German anthologies. After losing her job as a catering server, Paula decided instead of getting yet another job as a waitress/bartender/activities director/etc., she’d tackle her mystery novel a...