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About pixifer

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I'm an avid reader working on my second official Cannonball. My favorite genres are mystery, horror, fantasy, and SciFi, but I'll read almost anything that won't make me cry. When I'm not reading, I'm probably being held down by cats.

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This time it’s personal (for the characters) in the latest from my most favoritest series

Fortune Funhouse by Jana DeLeon

March 23, 2021 by pixifer Leave a Comment

Fortune Funhouse is the 19th book in the Miss Fortune series by Jana DeLeon. Fortune Redding is a former CIA operative, now living in the bayou town of Sinful, Louisiana. Her best friends are two Vietnam veterans named Gertie and Ida Belle. Together, they are Swamp Team Three, and they investigate crimes ranging from murder to exploding stills. Fortune is dating Deputy Carter of the Sinful Police. Gertie is looking for a hot date when she isn’t knitting, feeding her pet alligator named Godzilla, or accidentally […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Jana Deleon

pixifer's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Jana Deleon ·
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Spoiler Alert: I’m not the target audience for this book

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

March 23, 2021 by pixifer 1 Comment

I don’t read many romance novels, but after reading a few reviews for Spoiler Alert here on Cannonball Read, I just had to give it a go.  April Whittier is a thirty-something geologist in Sacramento who writes Gods of the Gates fan fiction under the name Unapologetic Lavineas Stan. When a picture of her in Lavinia cosplay goes viral on Twitter, Marcus Rupp-Cutter, the actor who plays Aeneas in Gods of the Gates, defends her against internet trolls and asks her on a date. April […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Olivia Dade

pixifer's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Olivia Dade ·
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Light and fluffy cozy mystery about a senior citizen CIA agent saving hippies from the Bulgarian secret police in 1971

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

March 9, 2021 by pixifer 2 Comments

The Mrs. Pollifax series has become one of my reading comforts. When I’m tired or world-weary, it’s nice to pick up something familiar with a little mystery and adventure, but no real threat of danger, while some nice people make the world a safer place.  The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax is the third in the series, published in 1971. Life is back to normal for Mrs. Pollifax; she’s hosting her garden club for a rare blooming of her night-blooming cereus. Just as she’s thinking her short-lived […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cozy mystery, Dorothy Gilman, spy

pixifer's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cozy mystery, Dorothy Gilman, spy ·
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This mystery might make you cry, not in horror but because you will want the characters to have a happy ending

The Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

March 1, 2021 by pixifer 1 Comment

I decided to read The Bellweather Rhapsody based on jomidi’s Cannonball Read review. I’m a sucker for a locked door mystery, especially when it involves a group of strangers trapped in a remote location with a murderer. Content warning: Suicide, both completed and attempted. The completed suicide is described in a fair amount of detail. Domestic abuse is mentioned.  In 1982, twelve year-old Minnie Graves decides to explore the Bellweather Hotel after her older sister’s wedding. She stumbles upon another new bride moments after she […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: kate racculia, locked room mystery, music

pixifer's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: kate racculia, locked room mystery, music ·
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Not as fluffy as the tv show but still a fun ride

Cocaine Blue by Kerry Greenwood

January 21, 2021 by pixifer 2 Comments

Needing some light entertainment, I decided to rewatch Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. It’s a delightful show and the rewatch made me curious about the books.  Phryne, carrying the cocktail, decanted it unobtrusively into a potted palm against which she had no personal grudge, and hoped that it would not give her away by dying too rapidly. Content warning: the book, and my review, mention sexual assault.  Cocaine Blues is the first book in the series. Miss Phryne Fisher is a wealthy socialite in 1920s England. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: 1920s, amateur detective, Australia, cozy mystery, historical ficiton, Kerry Greenwood, Miss Fisher's mysteries

pixifer's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: 1920s, amateur detective, Australia, cozy mystery, historical ficiton, Kerry Greenwood, Miss Fisher's mysteries ·
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