My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Aled Davies about his book on how the growing financialization of the British economy in the 1960s and 1970s affected social democracy in the postwar era. Enjoy!

Title: The Crepes of Wrath [Prologue]
Author: Sarah Fox
Publisher: Alibi
Series: A Pancake House Mystery
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating; Four
Review:

"The Crepes of Wrath" by Sarah Fox

My Thoughts...

This read for me was just a free preview of the story 'The Crepes of Wrath.' This seems to be a good foodie thriller mystery that will keep your attention and have you wanting to know who had killed 'Cousin Jimmy.' Marley McKinney who was from Seattle was visiting helping run her cousin's 'The Flip Side Pancake House' but later be kept busy trying to find out who had murdered her cousin. This seems like a good read to get into along with those dishes of 'pancakes, waffles, crepes along with some good recipes that I understand are located in the back of the novel. So, to find out 'who done it' I will have to pick up the remember of the novel to find out what will be coming next in the good mystery read.

Thank you instaFreebie for the prologue of "The Crepes of Wrath."

Title: Letting In Light
Author: Emma Davies
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:

"Letting In Light" by Emma Davies

My Thoughts...

This was quite a special good read that will give the readers a good look of 'friendship, love, with a community like [Rowan Hill] heartbreaking, to hope and even forgiveness.' The two main characters Ellie Hesketh and Will McKennan are very interesting, caring people however also fallible with each having their own baggage and even some dark secrets. Now, to add the rest of the secondary characters who were well drawn from [Ben, Helen, Finn, Gina, Alice, Prudence, Jane, Jack] to name a few that the reader will get a well told intriguing story that you will find it hard to put down till the end keeping you entertained. I don't want to leave out the beautiful description of Rowan Hill with its beautiful setting of the scenery that seems to comes alive as this author presents to the reader and I don't want to leave out the tea and lemon drizzle cake that was so important in this read! Now to put the icing o the cake how this author was able to present the 'secrets and revelations' that will come out from this read was very well done. That ending was quite a very interesting one that was very captivating definitely putting a closure to what all had gone on there in this village of Rowan Hill.

Be ready for a story that you will find 'warm, genuine, entertaining, heartbreaking' and still such beautiful read that you will find it hard to put down this well written novel until the very end.