Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s The Boy Who Cried Bear
It was a bear with human eyes that Max, the town’s youngest resident, saw. No one should go into the forest alone, and yet one does and then a dead body turns up.
It was a bear with human eyes that Max, the town’s youngest resident, saw. No one should go into the forest alone, and yet one does and then a dead body turns up.
It’s an embittered dispute at an Oxford college that requires the Visitor, Peter Wimsey, to decide the matter. Only, there’s the small matter of the Warden disappearing and inexplicable accidents that result in death that finds Peter and Harriet Wimsey staying on longer to solve the mysteries.
They did it, Meg and Michael bought The House. As is. All the possessions Edwina has hoarded for years. Even better, The House comes with acres, outbuildings, and a barn, lol. There’s almost of century’s worth of uncontrolled breeding by the wire coat hangers!
A fan convention that’s the ultimate in weird. There’s a batch of escaped parrots and monkeys frolicking throughout the hotel, a minefield of egos lurking behind the show’s success, and a dead body. Meg goes into action, crossing swords with a deviously obsessed murderer.
There are mysterious doings at Mutant Wizards, Rob’s gaming company, and he asks Meg to come work for him — organize his company and its move and find out what’s going on. It’ll be a wild ride with crazy programmers and a variety of critters.
Yorktown is celebrating its annual reenactment of the British surrender along with a colonial craft fair. Only this isn’t the only warfare with scam artists, blackmailers, and a murderer abroad whom Meg Langslow vows to uncover.
A getaway attempt from a family of zany characters and disastrous events fails when Meg and Michael are marooned by a hurricane and discover family at the empty cottage. And then . . . there’s murder, and Meg’s dad is the chief suspect.
It’s three weddings and a murder that introduces blacksmith Meg Langslow and her whacky family. It’s only the “gay” and gorgeous Michael who keeps Meg sane.
Tucked away in the Yukon wilderness, the hidden town of Rockton survives — and thrives — because the residents’ many secrets stay just that — secret. But what happens when these secrets start to come out? Overnight, no one is safe. It’s not a question of if your secret will come out — but when.
This intrigue-filled Christmas mystery takes readers home to Caerphilly to join in Meg’s family’s holiday celebration—including, of course, another baffling mystery.