Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s The Reluctant Widow
When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer’s home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death.
Category: Reading Books
Book Review: Peter Grainger’s Songbird
Detective Sergeant Chris Waters got the call at 05.29 that July morning. This is it, said DCI Reeve, you’ll be first there, it’s all yours, you’re the crime scene manager. Suddenly, after months of waiting and wondering, Waters finds himself in at the deep end, and alone at the scene of a puzzling murder.
Book Review: Jennifer Estep’s Spider and Frost
Students from Mythos Academy have recovered the artifacts stolen from the Library, but they still need to get them safe. It’ll take an assassin meeting up with a Champion to save the day.
Word Confusion: Irony vs Sarcasm vs Satire
Ironically, sarcasm and satire are types of irony in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Book Review: Marta Perry’s Thanksgiving Blessing
When Promise Glen is struck by a vandalism spree around the Thanksgiving holiday, a community’s values—and two weathered hearts—are put to the test.
Book Review: Julie Ann Walker’s Black Hearted
Hannah Blue, an ex-girlfriend’s little sister who’s been in love with Sam forever, is suddenly back in Samuel Harwood’s life when she’s arrested as a traitor. No one will believe that she has information about a cyber-attack on the US power grid until she turns to Sam and the Black Knights Inc.
Book Review: John D MacDonald’s Nightmare in Pink
McGee heads to New York at the request of one his former war buddies to help his sister. For Nina – a career girl living alone in Manhattan – offers Travis McGee companionship and the first loose thread in the elaborate fabric of a gigantic swindle.
Book Review: John Creasey’s Gideon and the Young Toughs and Other Stories
An omnibus of thirteen very short stories in the Commander George Gideon police procedural series set in the 1960s and revolving around a compassionate police commander.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Adventure of the Clapham Cook”
It’s Mrs Todd’s frustration over her cook leaving without a word and several articles in a sensationalist newspaper that causes Hercule Poirot to link all these “coincidences” together.
Book Review: Ilona Andrews’ “A Mere Formality”
During an intergalactic summit, the leader of the fierce Reigh people expires and the new heir demands restitution — billions and an arranged marriage contract with particular actions required.