I’m always surprised at how many book bloggers (and/or book lovers) primarily read mysteries. Call me snobby (go ahead, I can take it), but they just seem so light and easy. I generally choose books that move me in some way, or open my eyes to a situation or lifestyle that I might otherwise remain…
Category Archives: Mystery/Suspense
I’d Know You Anywhere, Review
Eliza Benedict recently returned from 6 years in London with her husband and two children. Settling into life in suburbia, initially her only concerns are her children’s adjustments, her husband’s job, grocery shopping and dentist’s appointments. Then a “real letter” (i.e. handwritten) arrives in her mail box, written by the man who abducted her and…
The White Devil
Andrew Taylor has been kicked out of a Connecticut boarding school and sent to Harrow School in England with orders to get his act together. If he blows it again, he’s on his own. The only new Sixth Former (senior) at Harrow, Andrew is having trouble fitting in. And when he witnesses the murder of…
On Maggie’s Watch
The sense that life is beyond her control is terrifying for Maggie Finley. 8 months pregnant, recently returned to her small hometown in Wisconsin, Maggie is gripped with fear after having given birth to a stillborn child 2 years previously. She responds to stress by ratcheting up the tension. She fights with her husband and…
DMZ
Journalist Julie Baker was born in a sleepy town in the remote Columbian jungle, the only child of a missionary couple who spend their lives, literally, to serve the local people. Julie plays with the local kids, learns to chatter away in Spanish and a tribal language, learns to climb jungle trees and hunt for…
Video Review: The Raising
This is our first attempt (maybe last??) to share some reviews via video. We won’t double up on all reviews, and I’m sure the learning curve will be steep, but we’ll give it a try. I know that some of you will have no interest in these, but perhaps they will grab some attention on…
The Raising
Laura Kasischke’s The Raising is a disturbing book. It’s compelling and intense, but also pretty disturbing on several levels. When college golden girl Nicole Werner is killed in a car accident (driven by her slightly obsessive boyfriend Craig), the facts don’t seem to match up. University employee Shelly Locke is first on the scene, but…
Heads You Lose
Lisa Lutz is the bestselling author of comedic crime novels The Spellman Files. Her ex-boyfriend David Hayward is a freelance editor and poet who has never published a novel. Together, they have written a murder mystery like no other. Lutz and Hayward took turns writing chapters, reading each chapter “blind” and making comments by way…
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