Flavia de Luce is an 11-year-old chemistry nut in a rambling old English mansion in 1950. Her father is a stamp-collecting recluse, and she and her two older sisters are pretty much on their own – their mother died years ago. Flavia hears her father arguing with a stranger one evening, and then later that night, finds the stranger dead in the garden. The precocious chemist, worried that her father did the deed, sets out to solve the crime on her own and befuddle the […]
Same Song, Second Verse
I admit, I’ve read/listened to every book Janet Evanovich has written (even the ones from the early nineties). They are like candy after a serious novel or piece of non-fiction, and I can zip through them in a flash. I’m partial to the earlier Stephanie Plum, so I thought I’d give one of her new series a shot. Wicked Appetite, featuring the characters of Diesel and Carl the monkey from the “Plum Lovin” series introduces a cupcake maker named Lizzy, who lives in Salem, Massachusetts […]
The Glass Demon
Quick Synopsis: A teenage girl is plunged into a dangerous mystery over stained glass supposedly haunted by a demon Quick Review: A fast-paced mystery with interesting historical undertones, marred somewhat by a lack of likable characters Read the Full Review
Secret Societies, 24 hour bookstores, Oh My! Festina Lente!
I love this book – read it a couple times, listened to the Audible version – so yeah – I’m a fan. Ok here goes: combine one out of work web designer, a mysterious bookstore, a secret society, Google, Hadoop, encrypted messages and cute Data Visualization girl from Google and you have Mr Penumbra’s 24 bookstore. This book actually uses Hadoop as a plot point! So cool for us geeky data types. It is a little “San Francisco techie hipster” so maybe it […]
The Hunchback of Lausanne
Let’s see – toss together angels, call girls, a cathedral “guet”, Nephilim and creepy disconnected “shadows” and you get…”The Watchers – first of the Angelus Trilogy” by Jon Steele. A bit of a retelling of the “Hunchback of Notre Dame” going on here. There are three main characters – the first (and most likeable) is Marc Rochat – the “guet” of the Cathedral of Lausanne. “Guet” is an old military term for “watcher” and it is Marc’s job to “call the hours” when the […]
Fargo meets Pretty Little Liars
I love this cover, and I would definitely wear that sweater. This is a funny mystery. It’s got a lot of Midwest charm, you betcha. It’s also got a bunch of great characters, especially the main character Kippy. She is trying to solve her best friend’s murder, while meeting resistance from the local sheriff, who believes that Ruth’s boyfriend killed her and refuses to look at any evidence to the contrary. Link to my full review is here.
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