I've wanted to read this series for awhile, and am finally dipping in. I started with the prequel. It got off to a slow start, but eventually picked up the pace. Overall it was very funny. The story though was pretty meh. What stood out to me was that I felt the characters, specifically the ...
Also listened to this in my car. I loved this one. My least fave of the P and P and Zombies era but entertaining nonetheless.
When I finished this novel I had to restrain myself from giving Steve Hockensmith and Lisa Falco a standing ovation, I know it would have been futile but I was still tempted. So instead I shall write this:Thank you Steve and Lisa, thank you for writing a cozy mystery and proving it doesn't have ...
This is #1 in the ‘Holmes on the Range’ historical mysteries series, set in 1890’s Montana. Features “Big Red” Otto Amlingmeyer and his brother “Old Red” Gustav, who are wandering cowboys who take temporary jobs offered by different ranches, and in this book they’re hired by Uly MacPherson, manag...
The second tale of the Amlingmeyer brothers, Old Red and Big Red. This time, the cowboy detectives have taken their first step toward professional deducifyin'--they've landed jobs as railroad detectives, of a sort. Lately, the Southern Pacific Railroad has been plagued by the Give 'Em Hell Boys. ...
They just stood there on either side of their stoop like a couple pillars with nothing to hold up. All the same, it wouldn’t do to dawdle around gawking at them. So Gustav, Diana, and I turned and moseyed back the way we’d just come. The leader of the Salvation Army band watched warily as we drew...
10 A MAMMOTH MYSTERY Or, Gustav Eggs Diana On While King Brady Turns Chicken “Curtis? Dead? In there?” Behind me, King Brady burst out laughing. “You’re joking!” His laughter stopped as suddenly as it had begun. “Aren’t you?” Diana and Gustav ignored him. “What’s going on up there?” someone shout...
in More Ways Than One Let us pause here for a brief moment of sacrilege. God, to me, is like Sherlock Holmes. I’ve read about Him. I’ve heard a lot of talk about Him. But I’ve never seen Him myself, and His existence I have to take on faith based on published reports. In Harper’s Weekly, say. Or ...
A love story. A true one. That’s the kind that doesn’t get told much. Once upon a time, there was a little girl. She was seven years old, and she was standing in a casino in Atlantic City. It was 1981, so the people in the casino were dressed even m...
Murder, robbery, drugs, desperation—it's not very holly jolly, is it? But the truth is I love Christmas! It's my favorite time of year. That's why I keep dragging it through the mud of human degradation. There's no season I'd rather write about.Well, that's not the only reason I've written about ...
Miller felt stronger. She watched as Terrill Lee washed the dishes as if desperate to return some normalcy to the situation. A repeating sound in the distance, like popcorn in a pan? No. Shots! Miller heard gunfire and it was getting closer. She and Terrill Lee moved closer together. He put an ar...