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“Do not fear the Reaper, for he only comes to guide you home.”

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching A Killer: A S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery by Maxie Dara

May 5, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Kathy Valence is your usual office drone; nondescript, sensibly dressed, no real after-work life and content to keep her life that way. Sure, her job at S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), Natural Causes Department means that her job title could loosely be called “Grim Reaper” (actual title being Collector. got to go with the rebranding for a better experience!) but that doesn’t mean she wants excitement. At forty two, several months pregnant and in the midst of divorcing her husband/father of […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer, cozy paranormal mystery, Maxie Dara

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:40 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer, cozy paranormal mystery, Maxie Dara ·
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Of Earthly Delights by Goldy Moldavsky

Of Earthly Delights by Goldy Moldavsky

May 3, 2025 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Going to be very careful to not reveal anything, but wow. I thought this entire book was great. It took me til twist #1 for me to understand everything fully I had read. I went back and re-read some of the earlier portions which made everything make sense. And then happily finished this book. It’s a really good Gothic romance young adult novel. Think of “The Secret Garden” […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Goldy Moldavsky, Of Earthly Delights

Classic's CBR17 Review No:50 · Genres: Mystery, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Goldy Moldavsky, Of Earthly Delights ·
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I’m Too Old, Too Sick, And Too Cynical For This

Secret Agent Girl: A Murder A-Go-Go Mystery by Rosemary Martin

May 1, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Total disclosure: you must know three things before you read this review; 1: I first read this book series 20 years when I was about 18, and my worldview has changed a lot since then. 2: I’ve had a lovely cold the entire time I’ve been rereading them. 3: (gestures vaguely to the United States and politics) When I first started to reread the Murder A-Go-Go series I would have told you I enjoyed them. True, they were pure unadulterated fluff, but they were harmless, […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Romance Tagged With: 1960s new york, mod, Rosemary Martin

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Mystery, Romance · Tags: 1960s new york, mod, Rosemary Martin ·
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Battle for the Truth

Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

April 30, 2025 by jeverett15 1 Comment

When I heard that BritBox had a new Agatha Christie adaptation, I almost just pressed play assuming I had already read the book. I’ve read so many of Christie’s novels I can’t actually remember them all, or even all their titles. But then I heard it wasn’t a Poirot or Marple, which meant there was a chance I hadn’t actually got around to it. The detective here is Superintendent Battle, who unlike the more celebrated Christie sleuths, has no real defining trait. He’s just a […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie

jeverett15's CBR17 Review No:22 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie ·
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A Holmesian Mystery-Horror Set at Sea

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

April 30, 2025 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

It is 1634, and a fleet owned by the Dutch East India Company is set to depart Batavia for Amsterdam, an 8-month long journey that will face perils throughout. Aboard are Jan Haan, the Governor-General of Batavia on his way home to join the ruling body of the Dutch East India Company, accompanied by his wife Sara Wessel, daughter Leah, and mistress Creesjie. Also on board are the world’s greatest detective, Samuel Pipps, arrested for an unspecified crime, and his bodyguard, Arent Hayes. The day […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Stuart Turton

RouletteGirl's CBR17 Review No:6 · Genres: Horror, Mystery · Tags: Stuart Turton ·
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Lost and Found

The Terror by Dan Simmons

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

April 30, 2025 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Life has an odd way of making things come together sometimes. Either that, or I simply wasn’t paying attention when I ended up accidentally reading two books about the lost Franklin expedition at the same time. Both books are fiction, which means that they take their own liberties with the truth; after all, not much is known about the exact fate of the men aboard the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus.  What we do know is this: explorer Sir John Franklin, experienced but not […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: dan simmons, Kaliane Bradley

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: dan simmons, Kaliane Bradley ·
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