Showing posts with label Sandra Orchard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sandra Orchard. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Sandra Orchard

Dear Readers, 
It is always fun to curl up with a fun, cozy mystery.  They usually have loads of humor and very little blood and gore.  Their mysteries are fun to figure out, kind of in the same way the game of Clue is fun.  You just need to collect the right cards/clues and suddenly you know who did it.
A Fool and his Monet by Sandra Orchard is just such a book, sweet and yet a fun mystery.  To make this series of books, titled A Serena Jones mystery, Sandra centers them around the art world.  Not a world many know much about.  
Serena Jones loves art and her passion is finding lost and stolen art.  She joins forces with the FBI Art Crime Team to not only hopefully catch those stealing art, but to also find out who murdered her beloved grandfather.  
Her mother believes Serena should be doing something much tamer and quieter, like meeting a nice guy and getting married.  But Serena is not quite ready for that, not to mention that she hasn't met Mr. Right yet.  When a local museum discovers their Monet is missing, Serena is on the case, much to her mother's horror.  
Like I said already, these cozy mysteries are filled with humor and funny characters.  I think because the characters are written with quirks and other "normal" issues I can relate to them quickly.  They always seem so welcoming and really don't mind if they have a problem that you find out about.  
So if you are looking for a book to read on a warm evening or one just for fun this book will fit the bill very well.  
Happy Reading, 

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Sandra Orchard

Dear Readers,
Until Sandra Orchard wrote for Baker Publishing group I was not very familiar with her writing.   Deadly Devotion is her first of the Port Aster Secrets series.   It is a genre that Baker has been very excited about publishing. They have gone out and found wonderful authors to write in the romantic suspense and they can now add Sandra to that list. 
According to the cops, Daisy killed herself.  Case closed.  Kate knows differently, her friend and mentor had lots to live for, the not the least of them being her faith.  They were on the cusp of finding a treatment for depression with herbal medicine, which would earn them a chance to put herbal medicine on the map.
When Detective Tom is forced to agree with her after being presented with the evidence, they both start looking into who had the most to gain from Daisy’s death.   Of course that means there is a killer out there and they don’t want to be found.
For those who are fans of the romantic suspense books, this one is a good fit.  It has a good mystery to it, while including a great deal of romance.  There are moments of laughter and even those eye-rolling times when something maybe gets a bit sappy, but those moments are what make a book so fun to read.  It makes it more like real life.  I personally liked this book because it kept my attention to the end and the storyline made me want to continue reading.  I am looking forward to Sandra’s next books.
Happy Reading