Book Review: Red Mandarin Dress, Qiu Xiaolong

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   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, Seanan McGuire

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, Tim Sullivan

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, Yonnie Garber

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 […]

Blog Tour: Blood on the Tyne: Red Snow, Colin Garrow

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 […]

The Haunting of Roderick Usher, Colin Garrow

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 […]