Book Review: Jeanne C. Stein’s Crossroads
The sudden discovery of a slew of drained bodies near the Mexican border brings an old flame back into Anna Strong’s life along with a new challenge and stunning news from an unexpected source.
The sudden discovery of a slew of drained bodies near the Mexican border brings an old flame back into Anna Strong’s life along with a new challenge and stunning news from an unexpected source.
It started as a dream while Annja Creed is on a dig in the English Midlands. Then she finds long-dead king’s torc, one that has tremendous…and terrible power in the wrong hands.
Just when Myra and Charles disappear, the Sisters receive an urgent call from retired justice Pearl Barnes, who has just rescued fourteen pregnant teenagers who belong to a highly secretive and controversial polygamy sect.
A man who shoots first and asks questions later while protecting Sarah Daniels from a personal enemy of KGI. Then he glimpses Sarah’s dark past.
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.
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 […]
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.
Someone has kidnapped the sons of the Duchess Dianda Lorden, regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Sir October “Toby” Daye must not only find the missing boys, but also prove that the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction. She’ll need all her tricks and the help of her allies if she wants to make it through this in one piece.
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher’s forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more.
Whispers abound that the faeries are disappearing people from the dig, people searching for the legendary Spear of Lugh. Naturally Annja’s producer wants her to investigate.