Book Review: Patricia A. McKillip’s Ombria in Shadow
Brimming with secrets and ghosts, the wicked regent will find Ombria a resistant city, even as she throws all that was precious to the prince to the streets.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: Kim Harrison’s Dates from Hell
An anthology of four short stories that you’ll hope you never have to experience on a date!
Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Terra Incognita
Gaius Petreius Ruso has volunteered for a posting with the army even deeper into Britannia. Only it’s in Tilla’s homeland where her people are implicated in a grisly murder.
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.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Vestibule
After a successful dinner party in France, a body appears and disappears, leaving the gendarmes not believing her. The killer, however, does.
Book Review: Lilith Saintcrow’s Dead Man Rising
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.
Book Review: Sandra Dallas’ Prayers for Sale
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.
Book Review: Ian Rankin’s Exit Music
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.
Book Review: John Ringo’s Live Free or Die
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.
Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Medicus
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.