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Thanks to WOW blog tours for the chance to read my first Kristan Higgins book! Friendship, longstanding feuds, jealousy, love, grief, betrayal, guilt - this book has it all. You can read my review HERE and learn more about the book below. More About The Me I Used to Be Back in senior year, Audrey, Micah, Jasmine, and Beck were the Core Four: the lucky one, the beautiful one, the smart one, the sporty one. They had color-coded dreams, inside jokes, and a lifelong friendship th

Darcy Graves is back today with my review of her debut book The Harlot of St. Cecelia's. If you're a fan of Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series, this could be your next mystery series. You can read my author interview and enter the giveaway HERE. More about The Harlot of St. Cecelia's London, 1923. American expat librarian Eden Brior thinks things are bad when she is accidentally locked overnight in the St. Cecelia’s Library vault with the charming and unreliable Simon

Thanks to Partners in Crime blog tours for the opportunity to interview author Darcy Graves about The Harlot of St. Cecelia's. Check out my review next week. Don't miss the first book in the Inspector Garrett mystery series - complete with buttoned up Englishman, curious American expat and beautiful French actress. Don't miss the giveaway at the end of this post. Jodi: I’m with you on the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Love it! If you could be one detective from the Golden

Thanks to WOW Blog Tours and author Sherri Dodd for a copy of Moonset on Desert Sands. In Book 2 of the Murder, Tea & Crystals trilogy, Arista and her aunt are temporarily uprooted from their California home for Arizona. Judging from the lush descriptions (that I sometimes had to read multiple times, just to relish in the images the language conjured up) Arizona must be a breathtaking place. Lately, I've been loosening up my "read a series in order" rule but I fell I must rei

Thanks to WOW Blog Tours and author Marysue Moses for a review copy of Looking Past Dementia. If you're of a certain age you might remember the TV ad Is it Live or is it Memorex? Apologies to the ad men of the 1980s, but now we're asking a new question: Is it normal aging or is it dementia? Looking Past Dementia helps us answer that question as well as figure out what comes next. More About Looking Past Dementia: Learning from Those Who Live with It In Looking Past Dementia,

If you love reading a good mystery, thriller or adventure you might want to follow Partners in Crime tours HERE. I do review plenty of their titles and interview their authors here on Words by Webb but if you want to see (and enter giveaways) for ALL THE TITLES join their email list. And before August slips away...enter their Super Giveaway where everyone wins an ebook and some people win a box full of books. What a way to end the summer! Check out my post about the August Gi

No, I am not a Grandpa. But I am a Grandma (actually I'm a Nanny since my mom is the infinitely cooler Nan). But I thought, Hey, I can read this book and just use the ideas in my life as a Nanny. Thanks to Partners in Crime Book Book Tours and author Perry Solomon for the opportunity to read Grandpa Day - even though I'm not a Grandpa. More About Grandpa Day Becoming a grandfather opens the door to one of life’s most meaningful family relationships. In Grandpa Day, Perry Solo

Thanks to WOW Women on Writing Blog Tours and author Liz Wanic for a copy of Under Cover of Chaos. You can check out an author interview and enter to win a book giveaway HERE. Come back next week for my answer to a writing prompt by the author. More about Under Cover of Chaos “… a fast-paced thriller that plunges the reader into the morally complex world of a UN humanitarian mission in Bangui...a must-read for fans of thrillers with high-stakes political undertones.” –Kim McC

I love a good mystery/thriller that weaves in history and when I learned about The Midas Touch from Partners in Crime book tours I couldn't say YES fast enough. After all, it was written by people who were behind one of those movie series that I could watch over and over again(and have) - National Treasure. Read my review today, enter the giveaway and check out last week's interview with Oren Aviv HERE. More About The Midas Touch July 19, 1799. Napoleon’s armies advance into

It's not often that you get to read a book that has not one, not two, but three authors. But thanks to Partners in Crime blog tours I had the chance to interview Oren Aviv, one of the authors of The Midas Touch. You can learn more about the book and read my review next week. Also, watch the book trailer HERE and enter the giveaway below. More About The Midas Touch The Midas Touch is a globe-trotting adventure that follows CIA cryptologist/puzzle solver/savant Brady Donovan as

Who doesn't love free books? Personally, I am NEVER lucky at book giveaways but Partners in Crime Tours has taken luck off the table. Everyone wins! I kid you not. If you love mysteries and thrillers enter to win a box of ten books - THREE winners (US addresses only for these). Plus one special winner receives an Amazon card. But that isn't even the best part. Every person who enters receives a free Kindle book. Don't waste time. Enter today because this contest ends on Augus

Initially, I wasn't going to review Deadly Gold Rush, the second book in the Indie Retirement Mystery Series. I did have fun interviewing author Landis Wade HERE. But Partners in Crime Book Tours gave me a link and once I started reading I just couldn't stop. So take a peek at my review and don't miss out on the last days to enter the giveaway. More about Deadly Gold Rush Murder, mayhem, and the Carolina gold rush: welcome back to the Indie, where retirement is anything but q

More about Mother Tongue: A Memoir of Taiwan “Standing by the window, I tried to understand what happened to me to take such an unfathomable leap… What I hadn’t realized was that first, my one and only assignment would be to learn the language.” In 1984, when Linda Petrucelli arrives in Taiwan with her husband Gary Hoff, she assumes she will learn Mandarin Chinese. Instead, her local church partner, the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, assigns her to learn Taiwanese, an eight-t

I'm thrilled to be welcoming back author Katharine Schellman. Last time, I got to interview her and review A Scandal in Mayfair, the latest book in her Lily Adler series. This time she back with her other historical mystery series The Nightingale Mysteries and celebrating the release of Last Dance Before Dawn in paperback! More about Last Dance at Dawn Vivian Kelly has finally created a home and a family at the glamorous speakeasy known as The Nightingale, where no one cares

Thanks to Partners in Crime blog tours for the opportunity to chat with author Landis Wade and tell folks about his new Indie Retirement Mystery Series. Don't you just love when people start a new chapter after retirement? Deadly Gold Rush is the follow-up to the first book in the series Deadly Declarations. Don't miss the fun giveaway at the end of the post. More about Deadly Gold Rush Murder, mayhem, and the Carolina gold rush: welcome back to the Indie, where retirement is

The Limerent series by L.S. Delorme is interesting as each book has a paranormal element but they also lean into another genre - romance, legal thriller, historical fiction. Today, I'm featuring a review of the last of the three stand alone titles that can be read in any order: Fanning Fireflies. I'm excited because this means that up next is Ghost Academy - the book where many of the characters from the first three books meet. Check out my past reviews of Bright Midnights an

I interviewed author Sheila Sharpe last week and got a peek behind the scenes of Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief . You can check it out HERE . More about Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief is a riveting, wildly entertaining, complex, and adrenaline-fueled art crime novel that is as intriguing as it is satisfying. Nick McCoy wants out of the art forgery business but not until he exacts revenge on the man who murdered his family years ago. Kate O'Dade, Mc

Author Teresa Peschel's bio mentions that she lives in the Sweetest Place On Earth. I know where that is! Do you? Tell us where the Sweetest Place on Earth is in the comments section. More about Agatha Christie, She Watched: One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Christie Adaptations Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband Care to match wits with Hercule Poirot? Share tea and gossip with Miss Marple? Chase spies with Tommy and Tuppence? "Agatha Christie, She

Since I have a young friend who LOVES dragons I knew I had to check out Dibs the Dragon. I'm more familiar with the dragons of Cressida Cowell's series How to Train Your Dragon so I was pleasantly surprised by a more cuddly version of dragons in Dibs the Dragon . You can also read my post inspired by the book posted last week HERE . More about Dibs the Dragon and the Marshmallow Rescue How does a bubble-blowing dragon make his very first friend? In the magical land of Lickit

I'm so excited today to welcome author Elizabeth Crowens with a peek at the work an author does AFTER their book has been published. Elizabeth just released the third book in her Golden Age of Hollywood Mystery series: Round Up the Unusual Suspects. You can check out my review next week but for now, here's Elizabeth (don't miss a book giveaway and a special offer from Elizabeth at the end of her guest post). Emotional Survival as an Author Every year, I attend a handful of wr