Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

VERY Dark But Well Done

Passenger 23 by Sebastian Fitzek

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Best for: Those with a strong stomach. Probably those who liked reading Silence of the Lambs. In a nutshell: Detective Martin lost his wife and young son on a cruise ship a few years ago. He was told it was murder suicide. He gets a call and learns that a child who had gone missing on the same cruise ship under the same circumstance has reappeared, and was holding his child’s teddy bear. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: Wanted another mystery to read […]

Nice Little Surprise

Death in the Arctic by Tom Hindle

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Best for: Fans of cozy mysteries. In a nutshell: A handful of passengers attend the soft launch of a new form of luxury travel – an airship – set for the North Pole. But someone dies, and everyone is stuck inside, possibly with a murderer. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: Before setting out on holiday I usually try to buy a fun book from the airport bookstore. I was going to get the new Thursday Murder Club, but the special ‘airport’ copy was […]

Copper Script

Copper Script by K.J. Charles

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Funnily enough I mentally get T. Kingfisher and KJ Charles confused, just because of the vague similarities of their pen names and the fact that I enjoy a lot of what they write (and because a lot of it is about older characters, and not all of it is straight, and it’s often set in other world, either historical or fantastical) (okay so not entirely confusing why). So to read them back to back, when I’d just been mildly disappointed by a T. Kingfisher book […]

A Few Twists But Not My Favourite

A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay

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Best for: Those who don’t mind a vaguely unreliable narrator. Those who enjoy a bit of ‘he had it coming’ in their crime novels. In a nutshell: Hazel and Fox were sort of vigilante serial killers who now have a child. Fox has decided that they need to stop so they don’t risk their child’s way of life by getting caught, but Hazel is not satisfied with this and soon makes what might be a very costly mistake. Worth quoting: “I can’t tell what’s life […]

A Bit of Illogical Fun

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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Bingo: “I” Seventeen year old Avery is on the ropes. Her mother has died, her father is nowhere around, and she’s living with her beloved sister until her sister’s abusive boyfriend moves in. Refusing to live with him, Avery moves into her car. What she doesn’t know is her life is about to change drastically. Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s The Inheritance Games is a YA novel. Her heroine Avery is visited by a member of the fabulously wealthy Hawthorne family, and told she must be present […]

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

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It’s weird. I thought I read this book years ago and just realized as I was reading, nope. I think I got the movie mixed up in my head. This is going to be a short review, this was very good. Tom Ripley is a hot mess and you keep waiting for him to get caught, but he does not. I also felt a strange pity for this character because he seems hell-bent on not being thought of as queer, but one wonders if he […]



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