The Last Day is about what happens to the world when a rogue star causes the earth to stop spinning. No more sunrises or sunsets. Freezing cold and darkness in one area. Burning heat and abandoned cities in another. There is one thin sliver of temperate climate. How do youContinue Reading
Inspector Ghote has been promoted to the prestigious Bombay Crime Branch that investigates serious crimes involving India’s VIPs. However, the Inspector appears to be in disfavor already with the Branch’s Head, Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr. Divekar, in A Small Case for Inspector Ghote? And what is that “small case”?Continue Reading
Even poor children in India like watching television detectives. Nine-year-old Jai and his best friend Pari have their first case. Their classmate, Bahadur, turns up missing from their neighborhood. And he isn’t the only missing child. They investigate in the slums of India as the Djinn Patrol on the PurpleContinue Reading
“There will always be more unknown than known, more rocks waiting to be overturned.” To be a part-time scientist, you only need a cell phone and the Field Guide to Citizen Science. SciStarter.org is an online database of more than 1,600 science projects that need help from regular people justContinue Reading
Victorians are enchanted by Things in Jars. As you will be, after reading this spellbinding mystery. Mrs. Bridie Devine, widow and consulting detective in Victorian London, has a personal problem. She can see dead people. Well, at least one, recently dead boxer Ruby Doyle. Bridie also has a case. SirContinue Reading
A sharpened pickax, a full water butt (barrel), a marline-spike, an obscure poison are all used (or maybe not used) for murder with A Measure of Malice in this new collection of British golden and silver-aged mysteries. Fourteen more intriguing, but unfortunately forgotten, tales from famous (Arthur Conan Doyle) andContinue Reading
The Museum of Desire is the 35th entry in the Alex Delaware series. It is an excellent thriller that is highly recommended! It’s just after 6 a.m. on a Sunday, when ex-con Eno is walking up a long driveway to a mansion above Benedict Canyon. Eno cleans houses for aContinue Reading
Describing himself as “writing a book about the disappearing towns in the Central West region of New South Wales”, the unnamed narrator of The Town states he “was probably not a writer”. This is definitely an unusual way to open a book. Despite not being a writer, the narrator keepsContinue Reading
In Parham Itan: Tales from Beyond Volume 1, high school student boxer Yamagishi and smart nerd Sendo literally run into each other on the way back to their dorm. While walking together, they encounter a half-human half-man-eating-flower monster. But the next day, everything seems normal. “What if nobody’s seen themContinue Reading
If the corpse had ever heard the phrase, One Day You’ll Burn, little did he know that today was that day. It was also the day his leg was partially eaten by a one-eyed coyote. It wasn’t the coyote’s fault. He did smell like carnitas. It happened at the footContinue Reading
Bitter Alpine: An Emma Lord Mystery (Emma Lord Returns) by Mary Daheim Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Publisher: Alibi (February 4, 2020) ~Print Length: 235 pages ASIN: B01LZU2W7N New year, new murder . . . Emma Lord is on the case when death finds its way back to the wintryContinue Reading