In the 13th Aimee Leduc investigation we finally come face to face with her mother, the fixer. Their meeting is short and fraught with emotion, answering a few questions of Sydney’s past and what she is doing now, but raising just as many. But that’s not even the biggest bombshell: Aimee is pregnant!! Oh yeah, and then there was a mystery or three for her to solve. The book opens with Aimee trying to make amends with her godfather Commissaire Morbier by participating in a […]
For The Love of Self (but not self-love)
I haven’t ever considered myself much of a collector. I had things I collected, but I’ve never been really obsessed with having or collecting (well, except once but I think that had more to do with sibling rivalry than anything else). And the idea of “collecting” things just to have them never really occurred to me as a possibility. And yet I still own books from when I was a very small child, and have spent a fair amount of time hunting down the Dragonflight and Harper […]
Another Kellerman psychological thriller worth reading
Author Kellerman gives us a slowly-unravelling psychological thriller in Victims, featuring his usual “dynamic duo” child psychiatrist and police consultant Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis. In this case, a murder involving surgical disembowelment, followed shortly thereafter by the same ritualistic disemboweling of another victim. The first victim is a nasty piece of work who no one liked, and the second a mild-mannered beloved husband, with no apparent link between the two victims. Milo and Alex are floundering when victims three and four follow in […]
I Have Known Several Villains Who Were Perfect Gentlemen
The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters – 1996 Since I read “Crocodile on the Sandbank” almost thirty years ago, I’ve been madly in love with the observant, intelligent, and mule-headed Amelia Peabody. Set in the 1800s, Amelia is an amateur Egyptologist who always stumbles upon a murder, a robbery, or a kidnapping as she accompanies her husband on digs. I’ve read most of the Peabody books, and I enjoy them a great deal for several reasons. First of all, Elizabeth Peters is adept at the […]
Just so you know, Cross: I still haven’t forgiven you for Justin Ripley
[Mild spoilers for Luther seasons 1, 2 and 3] Here’s a question for all you Cannonballers: which is easier to write, a good review or a bad review? I tend not to mind either way. Scathing, bitchy reviews are fun, but so is expressing your profound love and enjoyment of a book you have just read. The hardest reviews, I think, are about the books I am unsure about. Unfortunately for me, The Calling falls into this category. The Calling is a prequel to the […]
Southern gothic, done right.
I am often wary of Southern Gothic novels. I am a Southerner by birth, but often feel my southernness is buried deep in my psyche in a way that allows me to understand southern ways of thinking and doing, but I rarely think or do things that way myself. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin spoke eloquently to my inner Southerner and I enjoyed every minute of reading it. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter pretends to be a mystery story, but is really a story […]
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