Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Cast
Hollywood has come to town with Faith Fairchild hired to cater for the movie crew filming in Aleford, But an accusation of poison sets Faith on the trail.
Hollywood has come to town with Faith Fairchild hired to cater for the movie crew filming in Aleford, But an accusation of poison sets Faith on the trail.
After a successful dinner party in France, a body appears and disappears, leaving the gendarmes not believing her. The killer, however, does.
Psychics all over the city are being murdered and a piece of the past, half-demon bounty hunter Dante Valentine thought she’d buried, is stalking the night with a vengeance.
An unforgettable tale of a friendship between two women, one with surprising twists and turns, and one that is ultimately a revelation of the finest parts of the human spirit.
Inspector John Rebus may be retiring, but if he has a chance to take Ger Cafferty down and solve the murder of a Russian dissident poet, he’s all over it.
To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery and with enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win. Fortunately, there’s Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of the Horvath.
Divorced and down-on his luck, Gaius Petrius Ruso is an army doctor who intends to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. Then he rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla and gets caught up in the investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.
The beautiful Gloha is the only creature of her kind in all of Xanth, and she wonders where she would find the one true love with whom she could share her life. She’s sure that the Good Magician Humfrey can answer this riddle. But Humfrey, for mysterious reasons of his own, sends her on a perilous quest.
One day Scott wakes up to find his world crumbling around him. and he decides to stand up for what he believes in and embarks on a path toward redemption. He knows things are about to change. What he doesn’t realize is that nothing will ever be the same again.
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Physikby Angie Sage fantasy in a hardcover edition that was published by Katherine Tegen Books on March 27, 2007 and has 545 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Flyte, Queste, Syren, Darke, FyreThird in the Septimus Heap fantasy series for middle-grade readers. My Take I’ve finally figured out why I enjoy this whimsical, fantasy series so much — it’s the focus the books have on seeing everything from the children’s rather adult perspectives. I adore the detail and feel of the scenes which Sage writes as well as the connection she builds between the reader and the characters. Each is an individual and one bonds with them. In this third installment of the Septimus Heap series, Septimus is enthralled with the medical discoveries of a, he thinks, 500-year-dead wizard. Naturally, Marcia, his boss, thinks it’s dreadful nonsense and insists that Sep study for his upcoming predictions test. Unfortunately for everyone, Septimus’ dad, Silas, has just unSealed a Sealed […]