I feel out of the loop, musically, since I moved last year and left behind the best independent indie rock station ever. And working now in a concrete basement means I can’t even listen to their mobile app either. So if the US has finally woken up to Frank Turner, first off, horray! Second, you probably don’t need the following link barrage I’m about to hit you with. Third, I devoured this book on my lunch breaks (as well as my lunch) while being forced […]
A Change of Pace for a Formulaic Genre
Unfortunately, not like my previous review of Dead Men Don’t Ski, there were not a lot of wonderfully on-the-nose covers of this book to choose from. The one from Amazon is the same as my copy, which is lacking in over the top death melodrama. (Although this is the first time [out of all of two books of hers I read] that a big clue was printed on the cover.) Another first is the narration perspective. Instead of following Detective Harry Tibbett on his investigations, […]
There’s Actually a Lot of Things Dead Men Don’t Do
I really didn’t think anything would top my cover of Dead Men Don’t Ski – as a lone skier ascends a mountain on a ski lift, the rocks below form a skull. I have a handful of Moyes books, no idea where they came from, and they all find a way of inserting a skull into the picture, as subtly as a rhino crashing through your living room. But the covers on Amazon are all gems. Like the one on the left, with the Grim […]
Good Intentions, Horrible Execution (No Pun Intended) (I Probably Shouldn’t Make Serial Killer Puns)
It’s important that I stress this first: Larry Crompton seems like a wonderful person and his dedication to the victims, even after his retirement from law enforcement, is more than admirable. That said, and even he agrees with me in the introduction, a writer he is not. And I don’t place the blame entirely on his shoulders either; the publisher should not just fire their editors, but draw and quarter them and then literally set them on fire. When the possessive form of “it” makes […]
Teenage Human Lab Rats is the New Name of My Band
I needed some mind bleach before I dove into my next true crime book and nothing is a better palate cleanser that young adult science fiction. Colfer can usually be counted on to deliver on that front, but this book was rather humdrum. But Colfer does at least include a bad ass girl and that’s a step above most young adult fiction these days. The book takes place in the not to distant future. Tactical lawyers help uphold the corporatocracy. Our hero, Cosmo Hill, lives […]
It was Arthur Leigh Allen. I Just Saved You Time.
Graysmith wrote what is considered the definitive book on the Zodiac back in the 80’s. It was so well researched and well done that when someone in a police department retired and another officer inherited the Zodiac case, that book was required reading. This is not that book. Due to libel, Graysmith wasn’t able to publish the circumstantial evidence that made Arthur Leigh Allen the best bet for the Zodiac. So once Allen kicked it (yeah, I know I shouldn’t be so flippant, but Allen […]
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