Category: Adult Fiction
Paint An Inch Thick / Eddie London Mysteries by Adam Dompierre
Review by Sharon Brunner Adam Dompierre’s Paint An Inch Thick revealed a madcap mystery in which the main character, Eddie London, encountered murder, greed, dark secrets and mind-boggling acts of deception. The story takes place in California during the 1980s. Other characters, who made multiple appearances throughout the book were…
Lake Superior in the Moonlight: Yooper Tales, by Sharon Brunner
What You Find in the Woods and other stories, by J.D. Austin
The Hole They Dug for You, by Jodi M Hinman
Dead Silence by Craig Brockman
Review by John Austin About a hundred pages into Craig Brockman’s recent thriller Dead Silence, the reader and the complicated “hero” of the story meet the book’s most splendidly rendered character: Ma’ii, the trickster coyote spirit who eventually resolves the plot, albeit in confounding fashion, and not necessarily to everyone’s…
The Adventures of ArgyLe Sock by M. Kelly Peach
Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Evil forces trapped animate objects in a Misplaced Universe in M. Kelly Peach’s book The Adventures of ArgyLe Sock. The animate objects varied from articles of clothing and socks to metal items such as paper clips, scissors, and clipboards. These objects could speak, move around,d and have…
Yooper Murders of Mackinac County by Mike Cronan
To Be Marquette, by Sharon Dilworth
Being Nancy (In a World Lost in Mystery) by Michele Olson
Misguided: A Mackinac Island Novel by Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone
Review by Sharon Brunner Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone’s “Misguided: A Mackinac Island Novel” revealed a lot of plot twists, adventure, and humor. The main character, Jack McGuinn, steamrolled his way into serving as the youngest tour guide at the historic Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island. He joins three other…
2084: The Obesity Farms, by Edd Tury
Gift Horse, A Kat Wilde U.P. Mystery, by Terri Martin
Off The Hook Too! Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) by Nancy Besonen
Review by Sharon Brunner Nancy Besonen’s “Off the Hook Too!” book was thought-provoking, extremely humorous, and down to earth. She demonstrated the ability to connect so well with the Yooper culture. A true Yooper is someone who has lived all their lives in the scenic and rustic Upper Peninsula of…
The SideRoad Kids: Life as U.P. Adults By Sharon M. Kennedy
The Last Huck By J.D. Austin
Purple Sunshine / Sunshine Blues / Hazy Sunshine by Bob Calverley
Monsters, Relics, and Dangers Unknown – The Kollrheim Realms Chronicles Book 1, by S,M. Atherton
Review by Mack Hassler Once the storytelling is done in Monsters, Relics and Dangers Unknown, this first volume of “The Kollrheim Chronicles,” Emerick, who will be the warrior savior for the Princess of the Golden Kingdom of Kollrheim, has barely begun his long and dangerous sea voyage. Atherton’s large-sized hero…
Paint An Inch Thick / Eddie London Mysteries by Adam Dompierre

Review by Sharon Brunner Adam Dompierre’s Paint An Inch Thick revealed a madcap mystery in which the main character, Eddie London, encountered murder, greed, dark secrets and mind-boggling acts of deception. The story takes place in California during the 1980s. Other characters, who made multiple appearances throughout the book were…
Lake Superior in the Moonlight: Yooper Tales, by Sharon Brunner
What You Find in the Woods and other stories, by J.D. Austin
The Hole They Dug for You, by Jodi M Hinman
Dead Silence by Craig Brockman

Review by John Austin About a hundred pages into Craig Brockman’s recent thriller Dead Silence, the reader and the complicated “hero” of the story meet the book’s most splendidly rendered character: Ma’ii, the trickster coyote spirit who eventually resolves the plot, albeit in confounding fashion, and not necessarily to everyone’s…
The Adventures of ArgyLe Sock by M. Kelly Peach

Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Evil forces trapped animate objects in a Misplaced Universe in M. Kelly Peach’s book The Adventures of ArgyLe Sock. The animate objects varied from articles of clothing and socks to metal items such as paper clips, scissors, and clipboards. These objects could speak, move around,d and have…
Yooper Murders of Mackinac County by Mike Cronan
To Be Marquette, by Sharon Dilworth
Being Nancy (In a World Lost in Mystery) by Michele Olson
Misguided: A Mackinac Island Novel by Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone

Review by Sharon Brunner Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone’s “Misguided: A Mackinac Island Novel” revealed a lot of plot twists, adventure, and humor. The main character, Jack McGuinn, steamrolled his way into serving as the youngest tour guide at the historic Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island. He joins three other…
2084: The Obesity Farms, by Edd Tury
Gift Horse, A Kat Wilde U.P. Mystery, by Terri Martin
Off The Hook Too! Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) by Nancy Besonen

Review by Sharon Brunner Nancy Besonen’s “Off the Hook Too!” book was thought-provoking, extremely humorous, and down to earth. She demonstrated the ability to connect so well with the Yooper culture. A true Yooper is someone who has lived all their lives in the scenic and rustic Upper Peninsula of…
The SideRoad Kids: Life as U.P. Adults By Sharon M. Kennedy
The Last Huck By J.D. Austin
Purple Sunshine / Sunshine Blues / Hazy Sunshine by Bob Calverley
Monsters, Relics, and Dangers Unknown – The Kollrheim Realms Chronicles Book 1, by S,M. Atherton

Review by Mack Hassler Once the storytelling is done in Monsters, Relics and Dangers Unknown, this first volume of “The Kollrheim Chronicles,” Emerick, who will be the warrior savior for the Princess of the Golden Kingdom of Kollrheim, has barely begun his long and dangerous sea voyage. Atherton’s large-sized hero…