Monthly Archives: December 2021

The family managed another “thrift-store odyssey” and ended up @ Waterfront Thrift Store in Pensacola. As soon as we went into the store, my older daughter and I made a beeline for the books. It was our lucky day – … Continue reading →

The Mobile (Alabama) Public Library had a copy of The Butler Did It (copyright 2012, Mainstream Publishing, 269 pages). I’d never heard of the book, author Paul Pender, or Roy Fontaine (the sociopath butler). Despite my lack of knowledge of … Continue reading →

My local Books A Million has a copy of Smalltime (copyright 2021, W.W. North and Company, 248 pages). I’v longingly looked at it a few times, but I am much too cheap to buy their copy. Therefore, it seemed fortuitous … Continue reading →

If you’re Southern and you like to read, you’re supposed to like Pat Conroy. And I do. But I’ve noticed that whenever I have one of his books, it tends to sit on my bookshelf a while before I read … Continue reading →

Series mysteries are always fun – provided that you can find the right series. I am searching for a new series and thought that I would give Jon A. Jackson’s The Diehard (copyright 1977, 189 pages, Random House) a try. … Continue reading →

The wonderful Book Inn in Fairhope, Alabama, had an old, dog-eared copy of Justice is Served (copyright 1994, St. Martin’s True Crime Library, 294 pages) in its True Crime section. I’d never heard of the crime or the book, but … Continue reading →

Sunday night the Mojowoman and I celebrated our wedding anniversary @ The Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama. We had to head back to normal life in Mobile on Monday. But, before we went home, we had a few minutes … Continue reading →