Salem pastry chef Lizzy Tucker is a perfectly normal girl, happy with baking cupcakes and her little house and her cat … until she learns that she has certain “powers” that place her in the realm of the supernatural … sort of. She gets visited by Diesel, a California surfer-type hunk of a guy who spends most of his time hunting down supernatural bad guys for the supernatural “powers that be.” They can’t deny their attraction for each other, but can’t actually “do it,” because […]
Buddhism, Sex and Snakes: Culture Shock in Thailand
Apparently Bangkok thrillers have a certain notoriety for sensationalism, and Burdett’s Bangkok 8 doesn’t fail in that regard, but it is also so much more. In fact, this noir detective story could be a Phillip Marlowe, if it weren’t for the fact that its hero’s name is a little harder to pronounce. Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam-era American soldier, is a little too comfortable with many of the denizens of Bangkok’s notorious red-light districts, is […]
Doctor Who meets Sherlock, except not really. But there is a clever young woman who helps us get to know an eccentic detective
4.5 stars From the Goodreads synopsis, because it’s been a month since I read it, and the blurb is part of what drew me in: Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary – including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On […]
The Drop by Dennis Lehane
Ooh, this was good. This was so good I picked it up from the library at 2pm and had the whole thing done by the time I went to bed. It’s not a Patrick & Angie story, but if you like anything by Dennis Lehane (and the only way you could not is if you haven’t read anything by him, and you should really do something about that) you’ll like this. Set in Boston (of course) just after Christmas, The Drop stars a lonely guy named Bob, who […]
Solving the Mystery of Edwin Drood is dangerous stuff
The Edwin Drood Murders is a great escape. Imagine a little town in the Northwest corner of Oregon, nestled up to Astoria, called Dickens Junction. The town’s founder set up this village to recreate the look and feel of Dickens novels. Of course it doesn’t include the tenements, poor citizens and horrible air quality of 19th century London, rather it substitutes Dickens for Disney in creating a cozy little tourist town. This is the second of Christopher Lord’s Dickens Junction mysteries, the first: The Christmas […]
Writers, Publishers, and Murderers
I read the first Cormoran Strike novel for book club. I picked up the second Cormoran Strike novel because I’d already become attached to the characters, and I needed to find out what J.K. Rowling was going to do to with them. The Silkworm (2014) by “Robert Galbraith” follows the continuing story of Cormoran Strike, London private detective, and his assistant Robin. When a dowdy, desperate woman walks into Cormoran’s office looking for her missing, semi-famous, author husband, Cormoran takes her case despite his concerns […]
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