I’m not sure what “Sloe Ride” title of Rhys Ford’s new book is referring to, but that’s a small quibble for an otherwise generally enjoyable book. It’s number 4 in The Sinners series, and while I was able to follow it without too much effort, I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if I’d read books 1-3 first. There were enough references to recurring characters and earlier occurrences that made it pretty clear I should’ve already known these secondary (in this book) storylines. They are […]
November. It was going to get even darker.
The first snow has fallen in Oslo and a young boy awakens to find his mother gone, the only trace is her pink scarf that is tied around the neck of the mysterious snowman that has appeared in the yard. Jonas doesn’t know who built the snowman or why it is facing the house, but he does know enough to be afraid. Meanwhile, Harry Hole is assigned to the case and along with a new transfer from Bergen, Katrina Bratt, they search for clues to […]
Serial Killing Across the Ages
Our bad guy in The Shining Girls is pretty damn creepy, even if he’s never really fleshed out as a character. He’s discovered a run-down house with a wealth of treasures inside, a house that allows him to step out into any year between 1929 and 1993. The house also has a room full of souvenirs, and a wall with names — the names of “shining” girls that Harper will hunt down, or has hunted down, or will hunt down again. “And he’s sorry he ever […]
If Henning Mankell were French
Back in 2007 when I first went on Goodreads, I remember putting a Fred Vargas novel, Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand, on my to-read list. I think it was a recommendation through Powell’s Daily Dose, an e-mail I still look forward to every day. Though the novel sounded great, I had a lot of trouble tracking it down through my local library so it ended up being buried under the massive number of to-read books that followed (887 at last look!). It was […]
This wig is made for murder
Disclaimer: I received this ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Murderer’s Daughter (3.5 stars) is an enjoyable, well-plotted thriller fronted by an intelligent protagonist named Grace Blades. It’s structured so that we learn about her backstory concurrently while she’s solving a murder and, in fact, protecting herself, since she is connected to the victim. Grace, we learn, was born into a dirt-poor, abusive family, and one of her parents ends up murdering the other. Grace is bounced around in foster care […]
Doubt is faith’s shadow
Harry Hole, who has always been a character with a wide swath of gray area when it comes to right and wrong, is seemingly headed down a bad path by the end of this, the 6th in the series. The review QUITE spoilerific, so proceed with caution. The set-up is this: at a Salvation Army summer camp back in the nineties, an unnamed girl is raped in an outdoor toilet. She never reports it, fearing the stern heirarchy and what the accusation would do to […]
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