MYSTERY
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THE ALCHEMIST’S ILLUSION – Gigi Pandian
Zoe Faust finally has her life under control. It’s only taken a century or two. An alchemist, living in the Portland, Oregon area, with a gargoyle friend and border/chef, Dorian, she’s decided to search for her old mentor, Nicholas Flamel. Zoe believes that a local artist has the secret to finding Flamel, in a painting. Continue reading
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CREEPING JENNY – Jeff Noon
Kafka in Wonderland. That’s what I kept imagining as I read through this fantastic book. Detective John Nyquist is getting clues about his father who disappeared over 20 years ago. He goes to visit the quaint but odd little village of Hoxley-on-Hale. Here the villagers honor 360 different saints, 360 days a year. For five Continue reading
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SHAKE DOWN – Kendel Lynn
As my book review blog is now seven years old I have become much more selective in the books I request. Shake Down by Kendel Lynn was not something on my watch list, but as I’ve been enjoying a number of different mystery series’ published by Henery Press, I thought I’d give this one a Continue reading
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THE HOUSE THAT VANITY BUILT – Nancy Cole Silverman
Somehow I missed that Nancy Cole Silverman had started a new series, which is really too bad because I had grown to really enjoy her Carol Childs Mysteries series. The House that Vanity Built is the second book in Silverman’s new Misty Dawn Mystery series. Misty Dawn is a psychic. She once worked in Hollywood Continue reading
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STILLHOUSE LAKE – Rachel Caine
Gina Royal, young and naive, thought she was living the ‘typical’ and expected life as a woman, married with two children. But then her life was completely upset when a drunk driver drove his car into the wall of her attached garage … to reveal a horror she never imagined. Her quiet, often absent husband Continue reading
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THE GLASS THIEF – Gigi Pandian
Jaya Jones is back in action, and I couldn’t be happier! Even a well-known history professor and adventurer such as Jaya Jones has her own heroes, and one of Jaya’s is author Rick Coronado, whose tales of adventurer Gabriella Glass were inspirational to Ms. Jones. Coronado hasn’t written a book in seven years and Continue reading
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HUSH MONEY – Robert B. Parker
Not too long ago I read a book by a different author and I talked about it being a good hard-boiled detective story with a tough, intelligent PI. That got me thinking about my favorite tough-guy series … Spenser. It’s been 30 years since I read a Spenser novel I think (about the last time Continue reading
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BLACKOUT – Ragnar Jónasson
It is summer in northern Iceland, but the 24 hour sunlight is blotted out of the sky by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption. The darkness is a constant reminder of the darkness of the human heart. A man is found in a peaceful fjord, brutally beaten to death. Who is the dead Continue reading
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MICROPHONES AND MURDER – Erin Huss
Liv Olsen, and her stepsister, Camry Lewis, start their own podcast, Missing or Murdered, and for their first episode, they investigate the ten-year-old case of Amelia Clark, who went disappeared after an embarrassing video of her went viral a decade ago. Money for a first episode is pretty tight and they don’t have a lot Continue reading
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LIKE TO DIE – David Housewright
If you like hard-boiled detective fiction…. If you like the Spenser books of Robert B. Parker…. If you like good mysteries…. If you like good, solid storytelling…. Then you really should read David Housewright’s Like To Die. Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie is a former St. Paul police detective who retired early after collecting the reward money Continue reading
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EXECUTION IN E – Alexia Gordon
Wedding bells become a funeral dirge in Alexia Gordon’s latest Gethsemane Brown mystery! A domineering bride-to-be wants a picture-perfect wedding and part of that picture is the lighthouse on the cliff. Gethsemane has to work hard to stop her dead friend, Eamon, who formerly lived in the house, from killing the entire party. But it Continue reading
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JACK FROST – Christopher Greyson
This is my first foray into the Jack Stratton detective/thriller series. This is the seventh book in the series and the ratings on Goodreads are quite stellar, so I was really looking forward to this. Jack Stratton is an ex-military, ex-police, private detective. Along with his fiancee Alice Campbell, they run a detective agency which Continue reading
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