Archive for January, 2011
Book Review: A Hidden Affair by Pam Jenoff
A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff Atria Books, 2010 ISBN 1416590714 Hardcover Jordan Weiss is an agent with the State Department. When she discovers that her boyfriend did not drown 10 years before but faked his death in order to escape from someone who wanted to get their hands on his research, she sets out to [...]
January 31, 2011
Tags: Atria, Greek Islands, Monaco, mystery, suspense, Trieste, Vienna Posted in: Guest Reviews 
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Book Review: Mirror Image by Dennis Palumbo
Mirror Image Dennis Palumbo Poisoned Pen Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-59058-750-9 Hardcover Kevin Merrick, a patient of Dr. Dan Rinaldi for six months, had finally made a breakthrough of sorts, overcoming the self-imposed barriers and opening up about the traumatic events in his childhood. Now 23 years old, he has used drugs, cutting, and other ways [...]
January 30, 2011
Tags: mystery, Pittsburgh, Poisoned Pen Press, police consultant, psychologist, suspense Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe
The Taken Inger Ash Wolfe Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-15-101353-1522-1 Hardcover In the debut novel in this series, The Calling, we learned that DI Hazel Micallef suffered a severe back injury. Â In the interim between that time frame and this sequel she has undergone two operations and we find her flat on her back, [...]
January 29, 2011
Tags: Canada, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews 2 Comments
Einstein’s Tongue–Imagine Faster!
Why is it that I seem to be cursed with finding some of my greatest ideas, and having the courage to act upon these ideas, to produce such profound effects that leave me speechless and hopping for joy,… when I only get such a limited time to enjoy it? My freshman year of high-school during [...]
January 28, 2011
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Book Review: Did Not Survive by Ann Littlewood
Did Not Survive A Zoo Mystery Ann Littlewood Poisoned Pen Press, 2010 ISBN No. 978-1-59058-747-8 Trade Paperback (Also available in hardcover) Damrey and Nakri are two Asian elephant cows residing at Finley Memorial Zoo near Vancouver, Washington. As Iris Oakley walked towards the Commissary after her night volunteer shift, she heard noises coming from the [...]
January 27, 2011
Tags: animals, mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, zoo Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Set The Night On Fire by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Set The Night On Fire Libby Fischer Hellmann Allium Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-98406-5-7 Trade Paperback Every so often a novel comes along that connects with the reader in such a visceral way that it is like a punch in the stomach. This is such a story. If you lived through the nineteen-sixties and your memory [...]
January 26, 2011
Tags: 1968 Chicago, Allium Press, contemporary Chicago, mystery, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Marked
The authors of The Brianna Sullivan Mysteries, Murder Off the Books, Murder Takes the Cake, and the short story “Riley Come Home”, Evelyn David is the pseudonym for Marian Edelman Borden and Rhonda Dossett. Marian lives in New York and is the author of 11 nonfiction books on a wide variety of topics ranging from [...]
January 25, 2011
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It’s Just One Of Those Days
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January 24, 2011
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Feit Book Reviews X 3
Queen of the Night J.A. Jance William Morrow & Company, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-123924-3 Hardcover With a bow [by dedicating the book] to the late Tony Hillerman, who was a master at the genre of this novel (and the predecessors in the saga of the Walker family), J.A. Jance has written a murder mystery surrounded by [...]
January 23, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Britain, California, Colorado, Dutton, France, Harper Ecco, international espionage, mystery, Native Americans, police procedural, psychologist, retired detective, Russia, United States, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: One Was A Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
One Was A Soldier Julia Spencer-Fleming St. Martin’s Minotaur, April 2011 ISBN 978-0-312-33489-5 Hardcover Fans of Julia Spencer-Fleming will be delighted with the new entry in her series, One Was A Soldier. Clare is back from Iraq. She and Russ are trying to pick up where they left off, not an easy thing to do, [...]
January 22, 2011
Tags: military veteran, Minotaur, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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