Book Reviews: Box 21 by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom, Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis and Death Toll by Jim Kelly
Box 21 Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom Picador, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-65534-1 Trade Paperback This is not an easy novel to read, but it is well worth it because it is quite different from the usual crime-cum-thriller novels from Scandinavia. Â It really is a psychological study of the conflicts facing detectives in their moral and ethical [...]
September 25, 2011
Tags: 1903 Austria, England, historical, Minotaur Books, mob enforcer, mystery, Picador, police procedural, psychological, psychopathologist, Random House, serial killer, sex slavery, Sweden, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: On Edge by Barbara Fister
On Edge Barbara Fister Random House/Dell, 2002 ISBN 0440237513 Suffering from a gunshot wound, Chicago cop Konstantin Slovo is running from his family, his friends and all the tragedy in his life. His partner was killed in the same shooting and the department is investigating the incident, apparently believing Slovo shot his partner in “friendly [...]
November 1, 2010
Tags: police procedural, Random House, suspense Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Homer’s Odyssey Gwen Cooper Read by Renee Raudman Random House Audio, 2009 ISBN 0307704114 Unabridged Audio Book A tiny homeless kitten is left with a veterinarian, a kitten with a terrible eye infection that could be successfully treated only be removing his eyes. Being blind is one thing; being eyeless is quite another and the [...]
September 4, 2010
Tags: animal, audio, biography, disability, nonfiction, Random House Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
Turtle in Paradise Jennifer L. Holm Random House Books for Young Readers, May 2010 ISBN 0375836888 Hardcover Times are tough in Depression-Era America. Eleven-year-old Turtle’s Mom keeps losing housekeeper jobs and getting her heart broken by no-good men. When her Mom gets a job with an old lady who doesn’t like children, she has no [...]
July 25, 2010
Tags: general fiction, historical, kids, Random House Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Icebound by Dean Koontz
Icebound Dean Koontz Read by Paul Michael Random House Audio, 2007 ISBN 0739341413 Unabridged Audio Book A scientific team in the Arctic icefield is conducting an experiment and has just finished laying sixty explosive charges, scheduled to detonate at midnight, when a completely unexpected tidal wave hits and breaks off a huge piece of ice. [...]
May 27, 2010
Tags: audio, mystery, Random House, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag Alan Bradley Read by Jayne Entwistle Random House Audio, March 2010 ISBN 0307576418 Unabridged Audio Book Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old with a near-genius mind, apparently has way too much time, and too much curiosity, for a child who is benignly neglected by her father and ignored, at [...]
May 17, 2010
Tags: audio, British, humor, mystery, post-WWII historical, Random House Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis
Vienna Secrets Frank Tallis Random House, February 2010 ISBN 9780812980998 Trade Paperback Dr. Max Liebermann is living in Vienna, attending the lectures of Dr. Freud and seeing patients.  He has concerns about his relationship with one of his patients, a woman after whom he lusts but feels compelled not to pursue.  It’s not just the [...]
April 10, 2010
Tags: historical, mystery, Random House, Vienna Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag Alan Bradley Random House, March 2010 ISBN 9780385342315 Hardcover Flavia de Luce is an odd duck, there’s just no getting around that.  She’s odd in ways that speak to the insecure in most people: she contemplates her funeral, she believes that nobody cares for her, she is curious [...]
March 14, 2010
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Book Review: The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
The Hunchback Assignments Arthur Slade Narrated by Jayne Entwistle Listening Library, 2009 ISBN 0739380206 Unabridged Audio Book Modo is an abandoned child in Victorian London, a child with such a fearsome appearance that no one could possibly care for him. Mr. Socrates, though, a mysterious gentleman of means, takes Modo in and raises him in [...]
March 6, 2010
Tags: action adventure, audio, espionage, fantasy, Listening Library, mystery, Random House, steampunk, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol Dan Brown Random House Audio ISBN 0739319175 Unabridged Audio Book Read by Paul Michael There have been countless reviews of this book, including synopses, so I’ll confine myself to my reactions rather than spitting out another synopsis. Is Dan Brown a great writer? No, but I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code (also [...]
December 26, 2009
Tags: action adventure, audio book, conspiracy, Random House, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
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