Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The face of the cyborg and detective

Model Five Murder: a sci-fi noir by Tan Juan Gee

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When one is like me and in the position of having emails with online reader links attached, you can read a lot of different things. Most of which you probably asked for, but once in a while you get one that was just free-sent. Or you forgot you requested it. Model Five Murder: a sci-fi noir by Tan Juan Gee was one of those either free-sent or I forgot I requested.  As said, I read it via an online reader copy. And I can read […]

“How easy it is to leave things undone until they are too late.”

Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom

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In my love affair for both Historical Murder Mysteries and series whose books get progressively more brick-like the longer they go on, I tackled Sovereign, the third in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series. And I don’t really regret that I did. Set this time in York during the great Progress Henry VIII took after the near civil war of 1541, York truly comes alive, with the Minster and St. Mary’s Church shown particular love. Sansom paints a pretty good picture of how as much […]

Even Murder Can Be Groovy

It's A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder by Rosemary Martin

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We all need harmless little fluff books in our lives, and this is one of the fluffiest. It’s 1964 and 22 year old Elizabeth “Bebe” Bennett, recently out of secretarial school in Richmond, Virginia, is loving her new independent life in New York. A month out from her move from Richmond, Virginia, she has a job as the secretary to the dreamy Bradley Williams, vice president of talent company Rip City Records. Bebe spends her days hard at work, daydreaming about the future when after […]

Like so many things, this could’ve been better with Charlize Theron in it

1989 (Allie Burns #2) by Val McDermid

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The year is 1989, and journalist Allie Burns isn’t enjoying life. She’s moved from Scotland to Manchester with her girlfriend and fellow journalist Rona. The newspaper she works for has been bought by a media magnate named Ace Lockhart (named in the novel as Rupert Murdoch’s main competitor but for all intents and purposes, he is Rupert Murdoch), which means than rather than write the well-researched think pieces Allie used to do, she is now chasing juicy athlete divorce stories and covering disasters like the […]

Hot Blood on Cold Ground

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

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Iris Yamashita’s City Under One Roof is the first book in the newish Cara Kennedy mystery series. Kennedy is an Alaskan peace officer, drifting through Alaska. She is drawn to the tiny town of Point Mettier when a local teen finds a severed hand and local law enforcement is stumped. Or, they claim to be. It’s off-season, and everyone in Point Mettier lives in the same building. So, whose hand is it? Someone in the building has to know. Kennedy quickly becomes stuck in town, […]

A Thrill Ride From Start to Finish

Famous Last Words: A Novel by Gillian McAllister

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Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister is a suspenseful, thriller/mystery that had me hooked from page one. I hated to put it down and finished it within two days. I had heard about it from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s substack, a great place to go for book, TV, and movie recommendations. This story involves hostages, murder and the joy of reading, and involves very interesting main characters who struggle with the aftermath of a traumatic event. Camilla is a book editor who loves her job. There’s nothing […]



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