Book Review: Craig Johnson’s “Land of the Blind”
A woman is taken hostage in a church during a Christmas Eve mass, and it’ll take biblical knowledge to free her.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s The Last Mrs Summers
Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . .
Book Review: Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
The recently married Mrs. Pollifax off to China, where a young agent who trusts only her, Sheng Ti, holds the answers to a plot involving drugs, smuggled diamonds, a famous cat burglar-turned-Interpol agent, a psychic, and murder.
Book Review: Simon R Green’s The House on Widows Hill
Ishmael Jones and Penny are forced to investigate the rumors behind a haunted house with a team of amateur ghost hunters, and becomes haunted by his own past.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Falcon Always Wings Twice
Meg’s grandmother’s Renaisssance Faire is full of passion with a prankster, abused falcons, ambitious actors, and a saboteur — one of whom ends up dead with Faulk one of the suspects.
Book Review: Laurell K Hamilton and William McCaskey’s Fantastic Hope
An anthology of sixteen brand-new sci-fi and fantasy stories that speak to the darkness and despair that life brings while reminding us that good deeds, humor, love, sacrifice, dedication, and following our joy can ignite a light that burns so bright the darkness cannot last.
Book Review: Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs Pollifax on the China Station
The retired yet adventurous Emily Pollifax heads to China to rescue a prisoner for the CIA … and almost loses her life in the bargain!
Book Review: Kathy Reichs’ A Conspiracy of Bones
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cell phone number.
Book Review: John Sandford’s Masked Prey
Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians.
Book Review: Martha Grimes’ The Knowledge
In The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa.