In the tiny town of Three Pines, the body of Jane Neal is discovered in the woods. Miss Jane was beloved by her neighbors, many of whom are her former students. It appears that her death was a hunting accident, but when Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is assigned to the case, he begins to think it may have been on purpose. There are few things in life that are cozier than laying on the couch under a blanket, reading a British murder mystery. Still Life […]
Float like a bubble, sting like a bee
Sometime you just need to read something silly and fun. If that’s the case, the Bubbles mystery series fits the bill. Bubbles Yablonsky (yes, this is the name on her birth certificate) is a hairdresser in an industrial town in Pennsylvania. She’s a single mother who wants to make a better life for her daughter, and decides to become a journalist. Through a bizarre but pretty entertaining series of events, she stumbles over a dead body, and nearby finds the car that ran him over. […]
Outgunned, Outmanned, Outnumbered, Outplanned
Ahhhh, this book! Loved it, loved it. I picked it up after another Cannonballer reviewed it a couple months ago and the comment section was full of people gushing over it, and it did not disappoint. The Rook is the story of a woman who wakes up one day alone, surrounded by dead bodies, with no memory of who she is or how she got there. As it happens, there’s a letter in her pocket, written by the previous inhabitant of her body (Myfanwy Thomas–pronounced […]
A Jolly Little Romp, What?
Do I really need to write a review of this book? Surely you all know about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves already. Right Ho, Jeeves finds the dynamic duo staying at Aunt Dahlia’s house, and quickly wrapped up in the romantic misadventures of Bertie’s friends Tuppy Glossop and Gussie Fink-Nottle (one of the best parts of any Jeeves and Wooster book is the names of his friends). Tuppy’s engaged to Bertie’s cousin Angela and Gussie is in love with another houseguest, Madeleine Bassett. Naturally hijinks ensue, […]
Shades of Red
This book is such a missed opportunity. When She Woke takes place some time in the future, in a dystopian United States where religion now supercedes politics. Hannah Payne has been arrested and charged with murder after she gets an abortion. Her punishment is “chroming”–her entire body is dyed red, signifying she is a murderer (Chromes can be yellow, orange, red, blue, green, or purple depending on their crime). It’s hard to say what this book is about, because a million things happen to Hannah […]
Babes in the Wood
I put off reading this book for months and months. I’d heard it was absolutely terrifying, and I’m a fraidy-cat. It wasn’t terrifying. It also wasn’t worth the wait. The narrator, a woman named Leonora (Nora), is a writer living alone in London. Like every young, single female protagonist in every mystery that’s been published in the past 10 years or so, Nora’s hiding a dark secret from her past, something that will be slowly revealed throughout the course of the novel. She heads to […]
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