Diane Kelly writes a very good series about an IRS agent, Tara Holloway, and a surprisingly decent series about a police officer and her K-9 (surprising because the dog has its own chapters). This is not on par with those other efforts. This was just short of awful. The characters are good, but...
This one is going to be short. The book is too long. Too much stuffing. If we shaved away all the targets that qualify as 'author's research she must share so her accountant knows those deductions are legit', and then shaved away the overly long descriptive narrative about the places she goes and...
Whitney Whitaker loves turning an eyesore of a house into a beautiful piece of art. She's just been given the opportunity to purchase a charming old house for an amazing price. She can't wait to renovate the place and get it on the market, but she's going to have to because her cat, Sawdust, has jus...
Not my favourite of the series, but not bad. It had fewer mini-plots running concurrently, in fact, there was only one, and I missed them. Kelly is really good at those multiple mini-plots and they keep the story moving and lively. Without them, this one dragged a bit. Tara is undercover here, ...
It's been awhile since I picked up a Tara Holloway novel, and I don't know why - they're really fun and better built than your average cozy. Needing to read a book where the character had to be good with a gun was just the motivation I needed to get back into the series. In this book Tara is inve...
Another so-so entry. Kelly has the plotting down pat, but she struggles with the amount of research to share with her reader; even when it's interesting stuff, it's over-bearing. Megan and Brigit go undercover at a local University to try to break up an ecstasy dealing ring. Kelly writes this se...
This was an impulse buy. I saw it at the grocery store and was immediately drawn in by the dog on the cover. Even though I knew it wasn’t the first book in the series, it sounded like something a newbie should be able to jump into fairly easily. Against the Paw is set in Fort Worth, Texas and stars...
I generally like this series; I think the story lines are better than average and the characters are people you can get behind. Against the Paw is probably the least cozy of the 4 I've read, venturing into the slightly darker territory of voyeurism. As a police officer, Megan has the agency to in...
I like these, but I don't get the point of them. The stories are very well-written and not gritty, but not cozy either. Liberal use of colourful language and more violent crimes than can be found between the pages of most of the genre's covers. But then there's the dog's POV and it's just...cute....
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