Trouble in Spades by Heather Webber

Trouble in Spades by Heather Webber


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I enjoyed reading this. It was a quick read. The main character (Nina) is a strong woman and I like reading about her home problems intermingled with her detective abilities. Makes for good entertaining reading.

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Synopsis.

Landscaping is Nina Quinn’s business, but trouble seems to be her middle name. Saddled with a recently expelled, faithless local cop husband, a teenaged terror of a stepson, and the yappiest, most unhousebreakable Chihuahua in captivity, Nina needs a respite--and the backyard makeover she’s undertaking for her sister Maria and Nate, Maria’s fiancé, may do the trick. But, of course, Nate vanishes mysteriously, and Nina’s gardening magic inadvertently turns up a corpse. And with a thief on the prowl who’s preying on the neighborhood elderly, a suspicious Pandora’s Box of a package arriving on her doorstep, and yet another body inconveniently turning up, Nina’s going to have to dig into her community’s dirtiest little secrets to regain her peace and sanity--if she can manage to stay alive long enough to enjoy it.

A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks

A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks


My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It's been a few years since I read the Landover novels and hadnt realised he had released this one.
I found it really easy to get back into the series and enjoyed the book very much. Terry Brooks has an easy writing style and the words flow effortlessly on the pages.

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Synopsis curtesy of Amazon.co.uk

Princess Mistaya Holiday hasn't been fitting in too well at Carrington Women's Preparatory. People don't seem to appreciate her using her magic to settle matters in the human world. So when she summons a dragon to teach a lesson to the snotty school bully, she finds herself suspended. But Mistaya couldn't care less - she wants nothing more than to continue her studies under Questor the court magician and Abernathy the court scribe. However, her father Ben Holiday, the King of Landover, has rather different plans in mind for her. He thinks he'll teach her about perseverance and compromise by sending her to renovate Libiris, the long-abandoned royal library. How horribly dull. But before long, Mistaya will long for the boredom of cataloguing an unfeasible number of derelict books - for deep within the library there lies a secret so dangerous that it threatens the future of Landover itself ...