A girl fell, jumped, or was pushed from a balcony during a college sorority rush party. Whodunnit? Find out in the twisty Sisterhood Above All. Having never been, and having no interest, in a sorority, this book didn’t really work for me. The characters were not fully fleshed out andContinue Reading
Frank Miller is an icon in comics. Push the Wall is his story. You don’t have to be a fan of Batman, Daredevil, or Sin City to enjoy this memoir/instruction manual of the creative process. There is just enough of Frank’s life included to see how his career began andContinue Reading
A Quiet Place is a twisty but slow moving psychological thriller. It is not a traditional mystery at all. And that is what I liked most about it. Asai’s wife has died young from a heart attack. She had a previous attack so her cause of death was no surprise.Continue Reading
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts is another great Marlow Murder Club Mystery. Get ready to challenge your armchair detecting skills! Minor celebrities are dropping like flies in Marlow! Judith, Suzie, and Becks investigate, as usual, but don’t have the police’s support this time around. With plenty of twists andContinue Reading
Small town Texas beauty pageants. Can anything be more dramatic? Or fun? Well, fun for most—not so much for the dead bodies piling up. During this one, murders occur and blackouts happen. Mysteries and rivalries thought long dead arise. It is just another day in Texas with its Pretty DeadContinue Reading
Dead Men Don’t Play Fetch is another fine entry in the Andy Carpenter cozy mystery series. Andy really wants to retire from his defense attorney practice. But just when he thought he was out, they pull him back in. A homeless vet staying in a rehab facility is accused ofContinue Reading
Adventure to an Indonesian rubber plantation and search for an escaped murderer. Or stay local in the lunchroom of a NYC diner in the 1950s. Either way, adventures await in Golden Age Suspense Stories, the latest Otto Penzler collection of vintage short stories. This collection includes fifteen stories with mostContinue Reading
Agatha Christie mysteries are my Sweet Spot. This book takes the tropes from those plots and subverts them for its own ends. It is a very original way to honor Dame Agatha, while winking steadily at the reader from beyond the fourth wall. Belle is a ghostwriter hired to assistContinue Reading
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is the latest novel by the best-selling author Paul Tremblay. Slacker gamer Julia gets a job through her mostly estranged corporate bigwig mother to take a gentleman on a cross country airplane ride. Unfortunately, the gentlemen has some issues making the job much moreContinue Reading