Perfect paranormal suspense for fans of early Stephen King like Stand by Me. Eddie, Fat Gav, Metal Mickey, Hoppo and Nicki are 12 year old friends in an English market town one summer in 1986. At the suggestion of their school’s new art teacher, Mr. Halloran, they use different coloredContinue Reading
The Wife Between Us is the whiplash-inducing thrill ride of 2018! Nellie is about to marry the man of her dreams, Richard a hedge fund manager in New York City. Vanessa is jealous of her ex-husband Richard’s new fiancée and attempts to stop the wedding. The Wife Between Us startsContinue Reading
Good solid cozy with authentic characters. Kate owns a yoga studio. Michael, her live-in boyfriend, owns a pet store. Together they are renovating the house they live in that Kate inherited in Seattle. After not getting the engagement ring she was expecting, Kate asks Michael why they aren’t moving forwardContinue Reading
A deadly cat and mouse game between a bomber and the LAPD Bomb Squad. Dick Stahl is the owner of a security company. He is famous for doing whatever it takes to rescue American business people from kidnappers in foreign lands. Dick was also a former head of the LAPDContinue Reading
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie highlights female writers of crime fiction from 1850-1917. These writers opened the door for the golden age, 1920-1939, of detective fiction led by many female authors like Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The introduction gives a comprehensive history of pre-goldenContinue Reading
Next book following the PBS/Acorn mystery series. Agatha’s fiancé, James, dumps her in the previous book in the series, Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage. In Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist, Agatha chases after him all the way to North Cyprus, where he has gone on their honeymoon tripContinue Reading
Something wicked this way comes. Something evil is loose in small British village of Dalmering. A woman is stabbed in a wood right before her wedding. What could be the possible motive for killing someone liked by the entire village? Could the murderer be her last dinner companion with whomContinue Reading
Originally published in 1947, Death Makes a Prophet is one golden age mystery that deserves to find a new audience. The Children of Osiris, or Cooism for short, is a church/cult based on a mishmash of Egyptian gods, astral bodies, meditation and vegetarianism. Its founder, Eustace Mildmann, is the HighContinue Reading
Captivating character study of what happens when two young sisters disappear one morning. Kylie is 10 and a fire-cracker who back-talks her mother and uses her makeup. Bailey is 8 and loves school especially vocabulary. Jamie, their mother, needed to pick up a quick kid’s birthday gift for a partyContinue Reading
Atypical, thought-provoking addition to the Detective Comics series. Perfect for DaVinci Code fans. This ‘comic’ studies the nature of man and existence. It is truly philosophical and full of former religious beliefs like the gnostics. Would man be better off omniscient? The author’s answer appears to be no. Is anContinue Reading
Not one of the better issues but moves from point A to Point B. The Whisperer War is finally fought. Rick’s group has an internal war brewing with the Sanctuary. Negan loses an old friend and reveals some of his backstory. Anticlimactic ending to the Whisperer War leaves this volumeContinue Reading
Gangs, dirty cops, missing children, sex trafficking and murder explode across this noir crime thriller. Childhood friends Jazz, Teo and Judas go down separate life paths that all involve crime. There is a significant flashback in chapter two explaining how the boys’ paths diverged. While rescuing his sister from poorContinue Reading
A Hundred Small Lessons is a haunting discourse about life wrapped around two families’ stories within a single house. Elsie and Clem buy a newly built house soon after World War II is over. They have eight-year-old twins and Elsie finds the reason for her existence in motherhood. Sixty-one yearsContinue Reading
Epic new comic that reads like a classic horror story. Sadie is 16 and giving birth during a series of earthquakes in Salt Lake City Utah. The earthquakes stop immediately after her son Clark is born. At the same time, a mysterious group called The Silhouette is attempting to killContinue Reading
Great last minute gift for cat fans! Catakism is the faith of all humans who bow to their cat rulers. All cat owners, not just crazy cat ladies, will see much that is familiar in this pun-filled book. Broken down into chapters like The Book of Knead and The BookContinue Reading
More like Ocean’s Eleven than The Martian but still a 4 star read! The only similarity between Artemis and The Martian is the main character’s inventive use of science to solve their problems. Jazz is a smuggler on Artemis, the sole city on the moon. She is whip smart butContinue Reading