A man that was an ex-employee of the Stony Point Fashion Park in Richmond, Virginia, apparently planned a revenge prank on the company in January of 2014. It was reported that he had been fired from the Park in December 2013 after he showed up for work drunk. He was a security guard at the [...]

The past is never truly buried. As any mystery reader knows, the past often comes back with a vengeance leaving a trail of bodies and carnage in its wake. Such is the case here in The Dead Will Tell: A Kate Burkholder Novel by Linda Castillo. The author once again takes readers to the Amish [...]

Billed as a resource book for crocheters at all levels, Crochet: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide features the basics and over 80 patterns at all skill levels. Visually stunning thanks to the well done photographs, the book showcases quite a number of possibilities for gifts, home use, and more.   After a section on the basics [...]

The latest in a long line of cook books from Dean Fearing is another that expresses love for the Lone Star state. The Texas Food Bible: From Legendary Dishes To New Classics is designed to be a one stop resource for the cook. This cookbook co-written with Judith Choate and Eric Dreyer works well if [...]

By John Donovan This morning the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc announced its second quarter results. In subsequent news coverage, Bloomberg commentators said they were stunned by the lack of comment by Shell on the risk of reprisals by Russia to the recent announcement of EU sanctions targeting the Russian  oil and gas industry. [...]

If your “Plan A” for survival sinks, do you have a Plan B backup? Forget rushing to the grocery store when disaster like a snowstorm strikes. Everyone else will have the same idea. Need I say more? The supermarket and the convenience store are the first places a panicking town will flock to for food [...]

Just about everyone has private information that should be protected. Let’s begin with something you’ve surely heard of: antivirus protection. But this isn’t enough to guard your personal data. A free antivirus service may not even update automatically, and this is very important to keep up with rapidly evolving technology. Your protection is worth the [...]

A teenage mother, 17 year old Nydydra Briggs has been reported missing from their home in the Bronx. The police say they have been missing for 10 days now and they are asking for help from the public in finding them. Briggs was last seen as she was leaving her home at East 234th St. [...]

Please welcome my special guest, debut fantasy YA author D.W. Raleigh! His novel, Shiloh’s True Nature, has just been published by Hobbes End Publishing.  D.W. Raleigh was born in the Delaware Valley and has spent most of his life in that region. He has attended multiple colleges and universities collecting several degrees, including an M.A. in Philosophy. After toiling [...]

The cover story of the July 2014 issue of Fortune Magazine is titled “Positively Un-American: Bigtime Companies Moving Their Headquarters Overseas To Dodge Billions In Taxes”. Technically, if this is taking advantage of a loophole or provision of of the legal code, is it really un-American? To many of this perspective, the issue is not [...]

Burt Collins is just one of those difficult folks that Sheriff Dan Rhodes has to deal with on a daily basis. Burt Collins has a very narrow view of the world and Rhodes has to listen to him complain and demand action. His latest issue is that he doesn’t like the artists that have shown [...]

After a short introduction to the book by, publisher J. Alan Hartman, it is on to the twelve short stories. Some are written by names you may recognize. Others by names that are unfamiliar to you. All authors involved have weaved a complex tale very worthy of their inclusion in The Untreed Detectives anthology released [...]

Editor Jochem Vandersteen crafted a very good read with The Shamus Sampler and does it again with The Shamus Sampler II. The 13 stories in the book are all good ones though they go about things in very different ways. By doing so the authors show in very practical terms the argument put forth by [...]

Does the profession of real estate sales turn someone into a burglar, or, does a burglar one day realize, “Hey, I can make off like a bandit if I sell homes!”? Ray Glen Greene, 49, was a real estate agent in Cobb County, Georgia, who’d use his agent keycode to get into houses and steal [...]

I am pretty sure that Casey Anthony told a judge at her bankruptcy hearing that there had been no dealings for a book telling her story. Now a man named Rick Namey is claiming that he was working with Anthony and her attorney, Cheney (Mr. Finger) Mason up until the day before the day before [...]

Warning – This article contains spoilers and is a story more than a review! I have been a fan of John Ford since the very early 70’s, The Strawbs were one of my favorite bands. I have lost count of how many articles I have written about this band and the effect they had on [...]

Whom better than a burglar knows what a great way to find a victim is? Edith Cowan University in Australia interviewed 69 burglars. One of their favorite methods of finding a target is to search social media for vacation updates. You can extrapolate that it wouldn’t be a bright idea to reveal travel plans on [...]

The more technological advanced we become, the higher the degree the potential exists for an invasion of our privacy. Imagine how difficult it must have been for people’s personal information to get stolen—10,000 years ago. We now live in a world where someone half-way around it from you can nab your most personal information in [...]

Linda Frank has just published her third book, Secrets In The Fairy Chimneys. This is another installment in the Annie Tillery Mystery series aimed at the YA (Young Adult) audience. You can read my review here. I had the opportunity to sit down with Linda Frank and discuss not only Secrets In The Fairy Chimneys, [...]

Summertime is here…and that means sunshine and vacations. Most people love summertime, including scammers! Hackers can use this time to take advantage while we are planning vacations or on vacation or just enjoying fun in the sun. Here are some key scams to watch out for this summer: Family or Friend Requests Money You receive [...]

CHAPTER 14 And yet another experiment I will once again flag this as NSFW (Not Suitable For Work). Sam is a very creative writer – Simon Charles entered into the foyer of Anne’s apartment and she bear hugged him and then stuck her tongue down his throat and just as quickly recoiled in anger. “You [...]

It’s as easy for hackers to phish out your personal data as it is to sit in a canoe on a still pond, cast the bait and wait for the fish to bite. So many people fail to learn about phishing scams, a favorite and extremely prevalent scam among cybercriminals. A type of phishing scam [...]

An Annie Tillery Mystery This is third book that Linda Maria Frank has published in her Annie Tillery series. People love to put books in genres and the publisher has deemed that Secrets In The Fairy Chimneys is Juvenile Fiction. I personally would have labeled it YA (Young Adult), but that is of no matter. [...]

The latest collection of eight stories edited by Todd Robinson features the noir tales one expects from the Thuglit series. Whether it be fate that puts these characters in bad situations, bad decisions as that simplistic Facebook meme that some folks must unthinkingly share week in and week out, or just being in the wrong [...]

A credit freeze locks down your credit report so lenders can’t see your scores, making your credit/SSN useless to them because they don’t know their risk level. If thieves get ahold of your ID, they can’t get credit in your name as long as your credit is frozen. Freezing your credit will seal your credit [...]

What a sad story. Apparently the Calgary, Alberta Police are now treating this missing persons case involving 5 year old Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents, Kathryn and Alvin Liknes, as a homicide case. After two weeks the case has been a mystery to everyone not knowing where the three are. Today a break in the [...]

Not many books on religion are both inspiring AND humorous.  “The First Book of Mimi” by Daniel Aldouby is such a book, and the result is a delightful read for readers of most every age. The premise of the book requires imagination on the part of the reader to grasp its meaning.  An eighteen year [...]

I was smitten by this story from the first time author Damien Lewis mentioned it to me. A true tale of derring do and the bond between a man and his dog during World War II. One of the things I love about Damien Lewis is the level of research that he puts into his [...]

Imagine waking up at 3:35 in the morning to a knock at your door only to find two small children ages 5 and 8 telling you that something was wrong with their mother. Well that was what happened to a neighbor this morning according to Jefferson Parish’s Sheriff Newell Normand. When the police arrived to [...]

When I was a kid growing up in Northeast Dallas my parents always took us camping on the winter breaks as well as during the summers. Not only did we do a bunch of parks and sites here in Texas we spent weeks at a time up in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. My dad was [...]