MYSTERY
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A STITCH IN CRIME – Cathy Elliot
I have some friends who are quilters, and coupled with the fact that I’ve rather recently discovered that I enjoy the mystery book market, I thought I’d broaden my reading a bit and try this mystery in the “Quilts of Love” series. What I’ve learned is that there are a LOT of different kinds of Continue reading
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SEEKER – Jack McDevitt
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A BOOK FROM MY SHELF I’ve been familiar with the name of author Jack McDevitt, but I’d never read any of his works. I can’t say how or when this book found its way in to my home, but it did and I chose to read it, and boy … I sure Continue reading
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FADE OUT – graphic novel
In the mid-1980s there was a comic book series called Wordsmith (by comic book company Renegade). The title was apparently never very popular (you can still pick up a copy, for less than the cover price), but I quite liked it since it followed the hard work of a pulp writer in the 1930’s-40’s. Ed Continue reading
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A SCHOOL FOR UNUSUAL GIRLS – Kathleen Baldwin
I’ve read a few YA books recently that a about special, talented girls and their being sent away to develop their skills and knowledge. None has stated so succinctly the premise as this books title, A School for Unusual Girls (by Kathleen Baldwin). Given the number of books I’ve read (and I don’t typically seek Continue reading
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CENTER OF GRAVITY – Laura McNeill
I love getting a book by an author with whom I am unfamiliar and then being taken completely by surprise in such a good way. Center of Gravity by Laura McNeill is one of those books for me. I read the book in the span of one day-light day. The action of the book moves Continue reading
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THE WIDOW’S SON – Thomas Shawver
After my review of the previous “Rare Book Mystery” (Left Turn at Paradise), I thought that the series had promise, but I had never connected with the main character. I was eager to give the series another shot, and am glad that I did. The Widow’s Son, by Thomas Shawver, continues the exploits of book Continue reading
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THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN – M.C. Beaton
It wasn’t too long ago that I reviewed the 24th book in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series, Something Borrowed, Someone Dead, and now we have book #25 in the series and I have to say that Agatha Raisin is growing on me. In The Blood of an Englishman, Agatha encounters a murder at a local Continue reading
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TATTERED LEGACY – Shannon Baker
So… it was only just now, as I went to Goodreads to grab the URL of this book’s cover to paste into the blog post, that I discovered that this is the third book in the Nora Abbott Mystery series. This surprises me (pleasantly so) because, while it was clear that Nora had a well-developed Continue reading
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A TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION – Chris Orcutt
Dakota Stevens is a modern detective for the modern mystery reader. This is the third book in the Dakota Stevens Mystery series, though only the first book that I’ve read, but I never once felt that I had missed too much back story, or that I was lost. This is precisely how a book series Continue reading
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ENCHANTMENT LAKE – Margi Preus
The hardest reviews to write are for those books that do not stand out as either particularly bad or tremendously good. Enchantment Lake, by Margi Preus is a difficult book to assess. By all accounts, this book should be perfect for me. It’s a YA book, which I tend to love. It’s a mystery, which Continue reading
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FIRESHIP NASCENCE – James M. Robinson
I think that there’s an intriguing, rather complicated plot in here, but the style of writing is so dull and bland that it’s hard to get excited. This is supposed to be a thriller of epic proportions, with world-wide terrorists and the threat of global destruction via nuclear explosions. Thrilling, right? I wish it Continue reading
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