Book Review: Chloe Neill’s House Rules
Two rogues vanished, targeting Chicago’s vampires, and anyone could be next. Merit and Ethan Sullivan race to stop it but untangle a web of alliances and evils.
Author: Kathy Davie
Book Review: Kelly Gay’s The Darkest Edge of Dawn
Charlie and Hank are on the federal task force and have all sorts of leeway to investigate and capture the bad guys: aliens plotting, using ash.
Book Review: Terry Pratchett’s The Color of Magic
This is where it all begins—with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind, as their gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s Proof of Guilt
A victim run down and left. His past providing a link Inspector Ian Rutledge can’t ignore, that pits him against the new Acting Chief Superintendent.
Book Review: Jill Paton Walsh’s Attenbury Emeralds
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Attenbury Emeraldsin Hardcover edition on January 4, 2011 and has 338 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Third (& last?) in the Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane historical mystery series carried on from Dorothy L. Sayers by Jill Paton Walsh. My Take It is a recollection of Lord Peter’s rising as a detective to his “death” as a detective now that he has something of more immediacy to occupy his thoughts, using the stories and intrigue surrounding the Attenbury emeralds through the years. This was a sad tale, partly because it doesn’t even feel like a Dorothy Sayers and partly because there is so much loss. We do learn what happened when Peter came home from the war, a broken man. How Bunter came to enter his service and save him. There are bits of fun along the way; I did enjoy reading of Peter’s first case and his fledgling efforts — that linen closet was rather funny. Sugg was an idiot. One of those policemen who give all cops a bad […]
Word Confusion: Down Stairs versus Downstairs
If you want to go downstairs, you’ll have to walk down the stairs in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Wail vs Wale vs Whale
It’s a’wailing we are as we go whaling through the wales of the seas in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Book Review: Michelle Sagara’s Cast in Fury
When a group is suspected of causing a tidal wave, Private Kaylin Neya must come to Court where the emperor has commissioned a play to ease racial tensions, and the writer has his own ideas about who should be the focus.
Book Review: Michelle Sagara’s Cast in Silence
Kaylin’s past puts her under a cloud of suspicions when the city’s oracles warn of brewing unrest in the outer fiefdoms.
Book Review: Ian Rankin’s Standing in Another Man’s Grave
John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years.