Tyler, Kinsey and Bode Locke move with their mother to Keyhouse, their uncle’s mansion in Lovecraft, Massachusetts, after their father, a school guidance councillor, is brutally murdered by a couple of Tyler’s classmates. The entire Locke family are naturally extremely affected by the event, especially the eldest brother Tyler, who feels responsible for the event, and for not managing to rescue both his parents. Kinsey, his sister, was hiding and keeping their youngest brother Bode safe, but she’s suffering with survivor’s guilt and dealing with […]
A Hell of a Ride
My first review of an Agatha Christie book was of They Came to Baghdad, a light-hearted romp through global conspiracies to bring about World War III, archaeological digs, mistaken identity, and the intricacies of romance with a man who looks like Lucifer, star of the morning. Despite the joie de vivre of heroine Victoria, and the comic aspects of the perilous situations she found herself in, the central message of Baghdad was that it is better to “serve in heaven than reign in hell,” that what […]
Sherlock Holmes Intermission
While waiting for Book 2 of the Powder Mage Trilogy to come out and wanting to turn to that immediately upon release, I turned to the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet. With my previous exposure to Sherlock Holmes limited to the 1990’s point-and-click adventure game and the first Robert Downey Jr. film, I didn’t know what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised with what I found. A Study in Scarlet begins with Dr. Watson first meeting the famous consulting detective after returning […]
Monks and Spies in Tudor England
Okay, I’ll confess I read this trilogy out of order, and–worse–I reviewed them out of order, but I still highly recommend them if, like me, you’re an afficionado of good historical mysteries. Even more so since I just learned that this “trilogy” is about to have a sequel. Anyway… In this third novel, it is now 1584 and our hero Giordano Bruno is being stalked by someone through the streets of London. He has made a lot of enemies in Parris’ previous two books, and […]
We Need to Talk About … Jacob
This book proved somewhat painful reading, but is well-plotted, well-written and packs quite an emotional wallop. Defending Jacob is half murder mystery and half courtroom drama, told from the standpoint of Jacob’s father, who is a first Assistant District Attorney at the start of the novel, and thus gets first dibs on one of the more sensational murders to hit his town, that of a 14-year-old boy found stabbed to death off a path in a popular park used by town kids to get to […]
Crotchety John Rebus at his best
I’ve been a big fan of Ian Rankin for a while. How could I not be, when he’s been dubbed “the tartan James Ellroy”? In particular, I love the Inspector Rebus books (there must be 20 of them by now). In particular, I’ve liked the Rebus books when he’s been a bit older and a bit more bitter about life (which, all things considered, is pretty bitter.). As Rebus has aged, he’s become a more sympathetic character, even though he’s still the same guy, doing […]
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