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What the Family Plots

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The Family Plot
Cherie Priest
ebook $2.99
paperback $15.99

Here’s a little something seasonal.   And by little, I mean the length of the review, not the length of the book.

Cherie Priest is someone whose work I’ve reviewed here before, namely the Borden Dispatches, Maplecroft and Chapelwood.  Before I started this blog, I’d read Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Wings to the Kingdom.  So I knew Ms. Priest could write ghost stories and do them right.

The Family Plot is a stand-alone novel, but it’s one I could see becoming a series, depending on what happens after the final sentence…

Chuck Dutton owns Music City Salvage, and times are lean.  He needs a big score.  So when the elderly Augusta Winthrop walks in and makes him an offer that sounds too good to be true, Chuck doesn’t question things as much as he should. Continue reading →

A Review of Shane Berryhill’s Bad Mojo

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Bad MojoBad Mojo
Shane Berryhill
Ragnarok Publications
Paper $13.95
ebook $3.99

If you like your supernatural thrillers with a strong Southern ambience, then Shane Berryhill’s Bad Mojo might be just your glass of tea (sweet tea, of course).

Ash Owens (short for Ashley, but don’t you dare call him that) is a veteran who came home from the Middle East with a monster. Literally. He keeps it in check with help from a conjure woman named Zora Banks. They now work together, solving problems for the residents of Chattanooga. Of course most of their clients are from the supernatural community, which lends their cases an added element of risk.

Ash is approached by a Senator of his acquaintance to help find the missing wife of a Congressman who is running for governor. She’s disappeared into the supernatural community and is hooked on drugs. Oh, and if Ash can find the missing woman’s diary, well then, all the better.

You can see where this is going to go. Of course it isn’t going to be that simple… Continue reading →