Book Review: Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
Hallowed (Unearthly Trilogy #2) Cynthia Hand HarperTeen, January 2012 ISBN 978-0-06-199618-4 Hardcover (ARC) In the second installment of the Unearthly Trilogy (after Unearthly), teenaged Clara Gardner is learning more about her abilities and obligations as an angelblood, a human who is part angel by birth. She and her mother and brother, all angelbloods, had moved [...]
February 2, 2012
Tags: angels, dark fantasy, HarperTeen, mystery, paranormal, romance, Wyoming, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 
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Book Review: The Cleveland Creep by Les Roberts
The Cleveland Creep Les Roberts Gray & Company Publishers, May 2011 ISBN 9781598510713 Hardcover Cleveland’s favorite private investigator is back for another riveting case. Milan Jacovich explores the northeast Ohio metropolis and winds up gaining a new friend while losing a few others. Still, he keeps his sense of humor and salute to the city [...]
January 30, 2012
Tags: Cleveland, Gray & Company Publishers, missing person, mystery, private detective Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Adrien English Mysteries by Josh Lanyon
Adrien English Mysteries Josh Lanyon Loose ID, May 2007 ISBN 978-1-59632-465-7 Ebook This edition contains the first two novels in the series, Fatal Shadows and A Dangerous Thing. Fatal Shadows introduces us to Adrien English, who lives above his Old Pasadena bookstore and is rudely awakened one morning by a pair of detectives, Chan and [...]
January 26, 2012
Tags: bookseller, California, GLBT, Loose ID, mystery, police procedural, romance, serial killer Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Naked Heat by Richard Castle
Naked Heat Richard Castle Hyperion, April 2011 ISBN 9780786891368 Mass Market Paperback “All right, fellas, I’ve got my first odd sock.” The detective’s approach to a crime scene, even one in this much disarray, was to simplify her field of view. She pared everything down to getting inside the logic of the life that was [...]
January 25, 2012
Tags: fictional author, Hyperion, mystery, New York, police procedural, TV show Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Question of Fire by Karen McCullough
A Question of Fire Karen McCullough Kindle, February 2011 Also available in trade paperback Re-issue of an out-of-print edition Cathy Bennett gets stuck with what she considered an assignment from hell when she gets stuck filling in for the society page editor at her paper. A self-described social klutz, and much happier with her usual [...]
January 23, 2012
Tags: attorney, ebook, journalist, missing evidence, mystery, romantic suspense, Self-published Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews One Comment
Book Reviews: Vanish by Tess Gerritsen and Vanish In Plain Sight by Marta Perry
Vanish Tess Gerritsen Ballantine Books, 2006 ISBN 0345476980 Mass Market Paperback Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles receives a big shock when the Jane Doe in her morgue suddenly opens her eyes. Jane Doe is rushed to the hospital but before her identity can be discovered, she shoots a security guard and seizes hostages. One of [...]
January 21, 2012
Tags: Amish, Ballantine Books, book illustrator, Boston, FBI, Harlequin Books, hostage, medical examiner, mystery, Pennsylvania, police procedural, romantic suspense Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Cypress House by Michael Koryta, The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh, and On Borrowed Time by David Rosenfelt
The Cypress House Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-316-05372-3 Hardcover Death and corruption haunt this tale about a World War I veteran during the Depression who has a unique ability to see whether a person faces an imminent demise because of a trace of smoke in his/her eyes. Arlen Wagner in [...]
January 19, 2012
Tags: 1921, 1930's Florida, 1950's, aristocracy, bully sheriff, corrupt judge, drug smuggling, England, Great Depression, historical, hurricane, journalist, Little Brown and Company, mind experiments, Minotaur Books, mystery, New York, novelist detective, police procedural, supernatural, suspense, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Hollow House by Janis Patterson
The Hollow House Janis Patterson Carina Press/Harlequin, November 2011 ISBN 978-1-4268-9261-5 Ebook In 1919 Denver, a young woman from the East is in financial straits and must find a way to support herself. Choices are limited for women at that time so Geraldine Brunton takes a position as companion to an elderly widow whose wealth [...]
January 18, 2012
Tags: 1919 Denver, Carina Press/Harlequin, cozy, historical, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Open Season by Maryann Miller
Open Season Maryann Miller Five Star, December 2010 ISBN 9781594149153o Hardcover One white cop struggling to get back on the job after a drug operation gone bad. One black cop, new to homicide, struggling with a racist family and her own prejudice. A city in panic and the police force’s hierarchy bearing down on an [...]
January 16, 2012
Tags: Dallas, Five Star, mystery, police procedural, racial issues Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Heirloom Murders by Kathleen Ernst
The Heirloom Murders Kathleen Ernst Midnight Ink, September 2011 ISBN 978-0-7387-2758-5 Trade Paperback A collections curator for an open air museum in Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson is back in the states after breaking up with her Swiss boyfriend. When he contacts her saying he’s on sabbatical only an hour’s drive away, Chloe’s life gets complicated, especially [...]
January 14, 2012
Tags: cozy, Midnight Ink, mystery, Wisconsin Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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