Xepherus Reads

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!    I will tell you a story about the fairy folk of Ballysiogdun. They are upset because a woman lives in a cottage that is upon their land. They want her out and will curse the village if she is not removed and the cottage remains standing. Or, so the villagers believe...      Murder in an Irish Cottage is the fifth book in Carlene O'Connor's Irish Village series of cozy murder mysteries. It is published by Kensington Books and is available now in hardcover. In this fun and whimsical book, we are once again brought back to the village of Kilbane, Cork County, Ireland. Garda Siobhan O'Sullivan and her fiancé (and superior in law enforcement), Macdara Flannery, are back to solve the latest murder in Ireland. Unfortunately, this time the deceased is Macdara's Aunt Ellen, and Siobhan is worried that she may have to solve this case alone because Macdar...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons ,   The art of writing often times has an author revis it ing his or her favorite characters . In L is a Gardner 's case she has written so many wonderful characters, that when she returns to a previ ous book to add to a latest story, the results can be quite amazing.   The Neighbor is published by Bantam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House . It is the third novel in the Detective Warren series, and serves as an ind irect sequel to Say Goodbye . In it we are introduced to Jason and Sandra Jones , and their adorable little girl, Ree. Sandra is a school teacher and J a son is a reporter for the Boston Daily newspaper. T hey have split parenting to a "night and day" routine with Sandra as night parent and Jason as day pa rent. It is a well-worked formula that keep Ree happy in her four year old mind. But the happiness is short-lived when an unidentified intruder attack s and abducts Sandra during one Wednesd...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!     My reading for the year of 2018 has been above and beyond my expectations. I finished my Goodreads Challenge early. And I am still adding books to my own Xepherus Reads Reading Challenge . But one constant aspect of my reading has been my love for thrillers and mysteries. Lisa Gardner has provided many amazing books to fuel this passion for who-done-its, and of course I had to read another of her books.        Right Behind You is  the  seventh book in Lisa Gardner's popular FBI Profiler series. It is published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The story is the result of a Facebook Poll that Gardner issued on her page: Who should star in my next book? The response was overwhelming, and her FBI Profilers were once again on the hunt.   This story begins eight years ago when Telly Ray Nash took a baseball bat to his father's head in order to save his...