Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Royal Flush
It’s scandalous, but Lady Georgie is desperate for work and tries housecleaning and hired companion before being sent home on a secret mission for Queen and Scotland Yard.
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Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805
Ensign Richard Sharpe is captive on a French warship and in gravest peril on the eve of the one of the most spectacular naval confrontations in history.
Book Review: Vicki Lewis Thompson’s Werewolf in the North Woods
Anthropology professor Roark Wallace can’t risk news of a Bigfoot sighting in the north woods—not with a local pack of werewolves to protect. Disproving the evidence should be easy, but ignoring Abby, who loves the idea of Bigfoot, is not.
Book Review: Kat Richardson’s Greywalker
She was murdered, but came back as a Greywalker, able to move between our world and the mysterious, cross-over zone where things that go bump in the night exist.
Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Charm City
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.Charm Cityby Laura Lippman mystery, private investigator in a paperback edition that was published by Avon Publications on October 1, 1997 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Girl in the Green Raincoat, Baltimore Blues, Butchers Hill, In Big Trouble, Games Creatures PlaySecond in the Tess Monaghan mystery series set in Baltimore, Maryland and revolving around a former journalist turned private detective. My Take The primary theme is one of betrayal. Betrayal of one’s ethics and of friends. Using and manipulating friends to help is one thing; doing it to achieve one’s personal goals is another. A preponderance of the latter weighs very heavily in Charm City from a battering of journalistic ethics, making that career leap, destruction of lives to maintain past secrets, and hiding one’s primal enjoyment of the kill. Most of which can be traced to one man’s pride. Lippman keeps the action moving forward as Tess tells the story with some of my guesses teetering wildly […]
Book Review: R.J. Silver’s The Princess and the Penis
A beautiful, chaste, and completely naive princess encounters a strange lump in her mattress. The lump soon morphs into a shape familiar to everyone but her, triggering her curiosity and her father’s greatest fears. He frantically tries to intervene, but having a large phantom phallus in a curious maiden’s bed is never a good combination.
Book Review: Janet Evanovich’s Smokin’ Seventeen
Dead bodies showing up on Vinnie’s lot, Stephanie’s names on the killer’s list, and Joe’s grandma giving her “the eye”. Hot men, a dancing bear, and a vampire…Steph may need to get out of town.
Book Review: Erin McCarthy’s Flat-Out Sexy
All she wants is a fling with no strings, and NASCAR driver Elec Monroe is too young for her. But Tamara Briggs can’t resist…until he asks to meet her children.
Book Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Side of the Moon
Her rep destroyed, Susan Michaels now works on a small tabloid, until she stumbles onto a cat shifter she adopts from the local shelter. Ravyn Kontis will be pitiless.
Book Review: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
An action-packed fantasy in a wild desert adventure – with flying camels, magic carpets, and evil shadows – that literally zooms toward an unforgettable and unimaginable climax.