Book Review: Red Mandarin Dress, Inspector Chen Book 5, Qiu Xiaolong Mystery: Red Mandarin Dress, Inspector Chen Book 5, Qiu Xiaolong Inspector Chen is often assigned politically sensitive cases. In communist China, those cases can make or break careers, depending less on the arrest of the criminal and more on the inspector’s ability […]
Book Review: Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky Book Review: Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky Science Fiction and Fantasy novels have long been grouped together. Indeed, as has often been observed, without a scientific knowledge any technological advance can be considered magic. Voices communicating across vast distances: radios or cell phones…or magic? Boxes with tiny actors inside […]
Book Review: Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor’s Guide to the Underworld, InCryptid Book 11, Seanan McGuire Fantasy Series: Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor’s Guide to the Underworld, InCryptid Book 11, Seanan McGuire Alice Healy lost her husband decades ago. Not to death, nor through divorce or carelessly misplacing him. Thomas Price made a deal with the […]
Book Review: The Monk, DS George Cross Book 5, Tim Sullivan Book Review: The Monk, DS George Cross Book 5, Tim Sullivan Blog Tour: May 4, 2023 DI George Cross likes predictable things. Ordinary. Regular. His particular mental makeup craves structure and order, discipline and consistency. That is part of what makes him a good detective: […]
Book Review: Clash of the Totems and the Lost Magaecians, Clash of the Totems Book 1, Yonnie Garber Book Review: Clash of the Totems and the Lost Magaecians, Clash of the Totems Book 1, Yonnie Garber Blog Tour January 16, 2023 Twelve-year-old Ellery Brown lives with her mother in a quiet, boring village. She is […]
Book Review: Blood on the Tyne: Red Snow, Rosie Robson Murder Mysteries Book 3, Colin Garrow Book Review: Blood on the Tyne: Red Snow, Rosie Robson Murder Mysteries Book 3, Colin Garrow Blog Tour January 11, 2023 Although I have read and reviewed several books by Colin Garrow, I had not previously come […]
Book Review: The Haunting of Roderick Usher, The Watson Letters Volume 6, Colin Garrow Mystery: The Haunting of Roderick Usher, The Watson Letters Volume 6, Colin Garrow Blog Tour December 9, 2022 I was expecting another Holmesian-tribute novel when I accepted this request. It would not take a particularly lengthy search of the Scintilla site to […]
Book Review: The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings Fantasy: The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings Blog Tour August 22, 2022 It’s not fair to say that things are worse today for women, people of color, LGTBQ+, or any other minority or oppressed group in the world than they ever have been. In many areas […]
Book Review: It Was Always You, Sarah K. Stephens Thriller: It Was Always You, Sarah K. Stephens Just before our state locked down because of the COVID-19 virus, our local writer’s group held what became our last in-person meeting till last fall with the local lifting of group meetings. Two local authors gave […]
