Book Review: Charles de Lint’s “Newford Spook Squad”
A short bit on the formation of Newford’s paranormal investigation department in their police department.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: Nalini Singh’s Archangel’s Lineage
It’s the first year of true peace until the world begins to break apart at an astonishing rate and an archangel disappears. Those broken bonds Elena has may never be repaired when her father has a heart attack. Then an Ancestor stirs, but even the Cadre may not be able to stop the countdown to the end.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s False Colours
Sensing a misadventure by his twin brother, Evelyn, the Honourable Kit Fancot races home to find his brother has disappeared, his extravagant mother’s debts have mounted alarmingly, and the family honor is at stake.
Book Review: Alyssa Day’s Eye on the Ball
All Tess wanted to do was play softball. Why do dead bodies have to keep showing up? And what’s up with that vampire in the outfield?
Book Review: Karen Chance’s Queen’s Gambit
A feared and hated dhampir, Dorina Basarab, newly married to Louis-Cesare, is on a diplomatic trip to Egypt when all hell breaks loose, splitting Dory into a completely separate Dorina who each have their own adventures in Egypt, Faerie, and Hong Kong.
Book Review: Jill Shalvis’ Always on My Mind
It’s a stop-gap, this stopping in Lucky Harbor for Leah Sullivan to help out Grandma Elsie. She needs a place to hide and lick her wounds before running yet again. It’s a flight Jack Harper hopes to cancel.
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Shakespeare’s Champion
Lily Bard finds a fellow gym member murdered. Three unsolved, seemingly unconnected murders in two months with an anonymous white supremacist group is threatening people. And there’s a new man in town, someone whose face reminds Lily of the darkest time in her past.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s An Irish Hostage
In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland in the wake of the bloody 1916 Easter Rising when any Irish person who served in France is now considered a traitor.
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Last Scene Alive
Against the backdrop of filming Robin Crusoe’s book, a vicious serial killer is operating. It’s up to Aurora Teagarden to reprise her role as amateur sleuth and stop the carnage before it gets out of hand.
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Into the West
The Valdemaran caravan led by Baron Valdemar continues their adventure into the West, into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. It’s a wilderness of rapacious foes . . . and someone is watching them.