Book Review: A Cut for a Cut, Detective Kate Young Series, Carol Wyer Mystery: A Cut for a Cut, Detective Kate Young Series, Carol Wyer Blog Tour June 30, 2021 Kate Young is determined to get the man who ordered the murder of her husband. A journalist, Chris Young had been investigating corruption on the police […]
Month: June 2021
Blog Tour: Mirrorland, Carole Johnstone
Book Review: Mirrorland, Carole Johnstone Book Review: Mirrorland, Carole Johnstone Blog Tour June 29, 2021 A fascinating choice for any novel is relying on the unreliable narrator. I may never see it done better than Carole Johnstone has done in her debut novel, Mirrorland. Mirrorland is a hard novel to categorize and […]
Book Review: Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor
Book Review: Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor Science Fiction: Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor is one of the masters of the novella. Her 2020 work, Remote Control, gives readers everything they love about her writing with a brand new character facing a very different world. Sankofa walks the roads of Ghana. Only […]
Book Review: A Gambling Man, David Baldacci
Book Review: A Gambling Man, Aloysius Archer Book 2, David Baldacci Mystery: A Gambling Man, Aloysius Archer Book 2, David Baldacci Aloysius Archer was instrumental in solving a major crime while on parole. Now that he is done, he has decided to become a private investigator. Following the recommendation of a friendly police detective, […]
Book Review: Murder at the Grand Raj Palace, Vaseem Khan
Book Review: Murder at the Grand Raj Palace, A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation Book 4, Vaseem Khan Mystery: Murder at the Grand Raj Palace, A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation Book 4, Vaseem Khan Some series draw me in because of their convoluted yet ultimately logical plots, their larger-than-life characters, their gritty realism, or other […]
Book Review: The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star, Vaseem Khan
Book Review: The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star, A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation Book 3, Vaseem Khan Mystery: The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star, A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation Book 3, Vaseem Khan Many years ago the city of Mumbai shed its colonial name and embraced its position in a new and self-ruled […]
Blog Tour: Wolfe Trap, Matt Cost
Book Review: Wolfe Trap, A Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Mystery, Matt Cost Mystery: Wolfe Trap, A Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Mystery, Matt Cost Blog Tour June 18, 2021 Clay Wolfe grew up in Port Essex, Maine. A beautiful seaside town, it is known for its lobster and other seafood, its beautiful view of the ocean, and the […]
Book Review: Daylight, David Baldacci
Book Review: Daylight, An Atlee Pine Thriller, David Baldacci Thriller: Daylight, An Atlee Pine Thriller, David Baldacci Atlee Pine got a bit sidetracked on her trip to find information about her sister. Having helped solve a major case, finding her biological father, and learning who kidnapped her sister, she has been given a little more […]
Book Review: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz
Book Review: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, Annalee Newitz Nonfiction: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, Annalee Newitz (This review honors the stated preference of the author to use “they/them” pronouns. The book was published prior to that request, so readers may notice a […]
Book Review: A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
Book Review: A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine Science Fiction: A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine Hugo Award Winner Science fiction writers come to the genre from a variety of backgrounds. Often they are science based, but perhaps more often they are not. Storytellers can learn their craft from many different teachers, and […]