December 2017
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Looking For the Best Books – the year end review
We read and reviewed about 250 books this year. Listed below are those I thought were the best. In looking through the past year I am surprised to see that I gave fourteen five-star ratings. My 4.5 and 4.75 star ratings get rounded up in places like Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble when I Continue reading
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CHURCH OF SPILLED BLOOD – Jesse Miles
Jack Salvo is a part-time philosophy teacher at a community college in Los Angeles and a part-time private investigator. When he signs up to work as bodyguard for the Russian Ballet who’ve come to Los Angeles, he figures he’s in for some pretty easy work and the bonus is that he’ll get to hang around Continue reading
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DAWN IN DAMNATION – Clark Casey
Well this was just a heck of a lot of fun. “Damnation,” is a lot like what the Christian church-goers might refer to as “Purgatory” – that place in-between the land of the living and either heaven or hell. But with a twist. Those arriving in Damnation have a past that’s checkered with some foul Continue reading
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DARKCHYLDE: THE ARIEL CHYLDE SAGA – R. Queen
I enjoy a good horror/dark fiction read and I will be honest – I was drawn to this book because of this beautiful cover that promises so much beauty and imagination in darkness. The book is set in a world first developed by the same author as a comic book series (a ‘hit’ comic book Continue reading
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ALICE AND THE ASSASSIN – R. J. Koreto
President Theodore Roosevelt reportedly once said, “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both” in regards to his daughter and history has painted her as a bit rebellious and rambunctious. Author R.J. Koreto also paints her as curious in the mystery, Alice and the Assassin. Continue reading
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to all my readers who celebrate this holiday! Continue reading
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MANITOU CANYON – William Kent Krueger
Manitou Canyon is the 15th book in the Cork O’Connor mystery series. You don’t get to fifteen books in a series if there isn’t something engaging and powerful about the characters and/or the stories. I’ve only previously read the first two books in the series – just enough to give me a taste of the Continue reading
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FOUR OF THE THREE MUSKETEERS – Robert S. Bader
Wow. Just … wow. Robert S. Bader has done an incredible amount of research into the early days – the vaudeville and live stage performance days – of the Marx Brothers and shares it with the rest of us in the tremendous book, Four of the Three Musketeers. Bader brings us in to the home Continue reading
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ZVR: DIPLOMACY – Jeff Conner, editor
This book, ZVR (which stands for Zombies VS. Robots): Diplomacy is a collection of zombie/robot stories based on a comic book/graphic novel series under the ZVR title. I’ll be honest … when I requested this, seeing the publisher/distributor of IDW, I thought that this would be a graphic novel rather than a collection of short Continue reading
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FIELDS WHERE THEY LAY – Timothy Hallinan
This is book number six in a “Junior Bender Mystery” series. I have not read any of the other books in the series and because of that I think I was a bit lost right from the start. Junior Bender is a bit of a detective – but not for the good guys. He’s a Continue reading
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THE IRON GHOST – Jen Williams
Jen Williams’ The Iron Ghost is the much-anticipated (by many) follow-up to The Copper Cat. It is a sequel only in that it includes most of the same characters, in the same world, though it doesn’t necessarily follow-up on an ‘unfinished’ story. This is a good thing. This could be read as a stand-alone novel, Continue reading
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DR POTTER’S MEDICINE SHOW – Eric Scott Fischl
Alchemy seems to be in fashion. This is the third book in about as many weeks that I have read with alchemy taking a prominent place in the story. Alexander Potter was a Civil War doctor who has gone above and beyond the normal atrocities that doctors were noted for during the Civil War (that Continue reading
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