Lee Hollis

Apr 5, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lee Hollis |Kathy Reichs |Richard Osman

For all those readers—and only those readers—who loved the drama that is middle school. An unpleasant teacher gets what’s coming to her when her Maine school district hosts a spelling bee. The South Portland Middle School Spelling Bee is everything you hated about school. There’s unending memorization of information useless to anyone with a computer. There’s competition. The parents are frantic. The students are at each other’s throats.

Jan 23, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Leslie Meier |Lee Hollis |Barbara Ross |Lisa Jewell

It's hard to read but hard to look away from. When two women who share a birthday meet, a journalist becomes the subject of her own true-crime mystery. On their 45th birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. Alix is a successful journalist, and Josie convinces Alix that her story is worth telling: Josie met her husband when she was 13 and he was 40.

Oct 31, 2023 | crimereads.com | Libby Klein |Ellen Byron |Lee Hollis |Barbara Ross

I’m such a sucker for holidays. I love to completely immerse myself in a theme: holiday decorations, holiday meals, holiday baking. As soon as the leaves start to turn amber and scarlet; the air goes crisp; and when the windows have that little bit of frost in the mornings, it’s time to think of pumpkins and apple spice, and all things toasty. Is there anything better than a Halloween cozy mystery to get into the spirit of autumn?

May 23, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Lee Hollis |Kathy Reichs

by Lee Hollis ‧ A retired actress is forced to sleuth on behalf of a longtime rival. When Poppy Harmon was a TV star, one of her least favorite parts of the job was having to work with divas like Serena Saunders. So stuck on herself that she once refused to attend an on-set birthday party when she found out she’d have to share the place of honor with Poppy, Serena went on to have a longer and slightly more illustrious career than her former castmate.