Booklist reviews in May

Four of my Booklist reviews have been published this month:

***** In Want of a Wife by Jo Goodman -- the latest in her Bitter Springs, Texas, historical Westerns about a mail order bride and the troubled man who just wants love in his life

**** Night Diver by Elizabeth Lowell -- an adventure thriller about deep-sea diving near the island of St. Vincent and the theft of treasure from a sunken ship

** Love or Duty by Rosie Harris -- set in the 1920s Liverpool, about a ditsy upper class woman who takes in a lower class girl when the woman's motorcar knocks over the girl accidentally

** Frisky Business by Tawna Fenske -- a contemporary romance rife with scatological humor and the theft of an ancient Native American dildo

If you don't have a subscription to Booklist, you can read my reviews at Shelfari and LibraryThing.

Jo Goodman Shines in the Old West

Jo Goodman has always been a good writer, but she's outdone even herself in True to the Law the review of which went live today at AAR.

The previous book in this series concerned a legendary gunman who is hired to protect a woman in Bitter Springs, Wyoming.  When a train passenger, the author of the novels starring the gunman, witnesses the death of the man proclaiming to be the legend, the author decides to go to Bitter Springs and check out why someone would hire the retired gunman in the first place.

That book, The Last Renegade, was charming and funny, so I was looking forward to reading True to the Law, the next book in the series.  I definitely wasn't expecting what I got: an even better book than the first one.

Schoolteacher Tru and reluctant sheriff Cobb are the couple of dreams.  And now, knowing that Goodman can surpass herself, I can't wait to read the next one in the series,  Nat Church and the Runaway Bride.