Jean-Michel La Grenouille is handsome, disgustingly rich, and an actual hand-to-god prince, but he’s got a dirty little secret: he spent the first few years of his life as a frog. It was only a chance meeting with a hungry little girl that released him from his slimy prison. If Jean-Michael wants to keep his…
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Review: The Christmas Cantata
It’s three weeks until Christmas, and the normally cheery town of St. Germaine, North Carolina is stuck firmly in the dumps; in the words of Police Chief/choir director Hayden Konig, everyone is “crabby.” What everyone needs is something to get them in the Christmas spirit — fast. The first glimmer of light winks on when…
Revisiting a Childhood Favorite
I grew up reading Prudence Mackintosh’s Thundering Sneakers, a chronicle of a young mother raising three sons in the 1970s and 1980s. The stories are laugh-out-loud funny, and they merit re-reading (even if some of the references have become dated). Recently I received copies of Sneaking Out and Just As We Were: A Narrow Slice…
Review: The Cantor Wore Crinolines
Hayden Konig leads a charmed life. He’s a fantastic detective, rich, the organist and choir director at St. Barnabus Church, and has the best-looking wife in three counties. Yet he remains discontent. The one thing Hayden wants most in the world is to be a famous noir detective writer like his hero, Raymond Chandler. He…
Review: Heads in Beds
Fresh out of college with a degree in Philosophy, Jacob Tomsky wasn’t exactly what you’d call hireable. After a few stumbles he ended up at the bottom of the food chain as a valet parker for a luxury hotel in New Orleans. Some would call his rise through the hospitality industry meteoric; Tomsky is more…