Book Review: Jasper Fforde’s The Well of Lost Plots
Thursday Next is hiding out, but the Well is a linguistic free-for-all with a murderer stalking Jurisfiction agents and nobody is safe, least of all Thursday herself.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Maggie Sefton’s Yarn Over Murder
Wild fires are raging and a herd of alpacas need rescuing with Kelly Flynn and the House of Lambspun knitters and friends to their aid, but for an unexpected murder victim…
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Gone Gull
Cordelia opened a craft center, and Meg and family jumps to help. But acts of vandalism and the escalation that make them wonder if it’s pressure to make her sell?
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess’ The Painted Queen
A bust of Queen Nefertiti is stolen, and Amelia is the target of assassins while a brilliant criminal offers his final challenge… and may be unmasked at last.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
Her Majesty is quite pleased that Georgie is going to Italy to aid her friend and asks Georgie to find out if Prince Edward and that Wallis person are getting married.
Book Review: Lee Child’s MatchUp
Eleven short stories in a matchup of fiction and thriller writers — a man and a woman pairing — revolving around a blend of the main characters in each pair of authors’ series.
Book Review: Diana Gabaldon’s Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
An anthology of seven short stories in the Outlander / Lord John Gray historical fiction series with an emphasis on the military side with Lord John’s involvement.
Book Review: Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
A friendship torn apart is followed by tragedy when a young girl disappears. One, Larry Ott, never rises above suspicion while the other, Silas Jones, returns to yet another tragedy on the rise.
Book Review: Ben Aaronovitch’s The Hanging Tree
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library The Hanging Treeby Ben AaronovitchIt is part of the , series and is a detective mystery, urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by DAW Books on January 31, 2017 and has 292 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Midnight Riot, Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, “The Furthest Station”, Lies Sleeping, False Value, “What Abigail Did That Summer”Sixth in the PC Peter Grant urban fantasy-detective mystery series (a.k.a., the Rivers of London series) set in London and revolving around a magic division of the police, in particular one police constable learning the trade, the magic one. A character’s color or race never seem to impact me much, and it wasn’t until this story — the sixth!! — that it dawned on me that some might want to know — and revel — in a story in which a black man is the hero. So take it away, Police Constable Peter Grant… My […]
Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s The Invisible Code
It’s a deadly game of ambition that starts with two children playing “Witch Hunter” and ends with cold-blooded murder.