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“When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it’s a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it’s a Tragedy. Don’t use bullets. Use meteorites. Don’t commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.”

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

December 23, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Basically, this book is murder heists. As I finally sit down to start typing this review, I still haven’t decided if I’m going to round up or down from my 4.5 star rating, so I guess we’ll see what I talk myself into by the end of these several paragraphs. Rupert Holmes, of “Piña Colada Song” fame, has given mystery lovers a real treat. Especially if you like mysteries that play with genre and format, which this very much does. Something I didn’t know going […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: historical fiction, historical mystery, LGBTQIA, meta, meta mystery, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide, mystery, narfna, Rupert Holmes

narfna's CBR15 Review No:159 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: historical fiction, historical mystery, LGBTQIA, meta, meta mystery, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide, mystery, narfna, Rupert Holmes ·
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“I suspect if I had owned a border collie, this story would have a very different ending, and I probably would not have been around to type it up. But I had Bongo, and he saved our lives because he is simple and made of nose.”

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

December 23, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Gotta write this review today because I’m about to start The Hollow Places, and I don’t want my brain to get to confused about it. This book was ooky spooky and I enjoyed it very much. The atmosphere was A+ for me, the MC alone in her evil grandmother’s hoarder house (the book is clear that her being a hoarder is in no way related to her being evil, but the doll room is def related) and a THING in the woods. The THING omg it […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: cozy horror, folk horror, horror, narfna, speculative, t kingfisher, the twisted ones

narfna's CBR15 Review No:158 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: cozy horror, folk horror, horror, narfna, speculative, t kingfisher, the twisted ones ·
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Triple Cannonballing with fugitive Blanche, here to solve your murder mysteries and nose around until all your secrets are exposed.

Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1) by Barbara Neely

December 22, 2023 by narfna 8 Comments

This was published in 1992 so it should have SO MANY more ratings on Goodreads than it does. It was very good! Mystery/crime junkies, consider this your notice. A fun series is waiting for you. There are only four books in it, and this is the first. And if you have KU or Audible, it’s free! I highly enjoyed the audiobook experience, if you are an audiobook person. The book opens with Blanche—who I now love with all my heart—sitting in court waiting to hear […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: audiobooks, Barbara Neely, black author, Blanche On The Lam, Blanche White, crime, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, Suspense

narfna's CBR15 Review No:156 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: audiobooks, Barbara Neely, black author, Blanche On The Lam, Blanche White, crime, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, Suspense ·
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“Just when you think you’ve seen the worst human beings have to offer, you find out you’re wrong.”

Holly (Holly Gibney, #3) by Stephen King

December 22, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was bit of a messy book that I ultimately enjoyed very much. King takes a lot of smaller pieces (racism, homophobia, cannibalism, the fear of aging, COVID, poetry and writing and the meaning of art) and smushes them together in this little book following Holly Gibney, a character some people love and some people (inexplicably) hate. I happen to love her. I thought this was a great showcase for Holly, even if it wasn’t perfect, and there were small moments I might have tweaked […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: are the elderly life-sucking monsters, cannibals, covid, Holly, holly gibney, horror, narfna, Stephen King, Suspense, thrillers

narfna's CBR15 Review No:150 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: are the elderly life-sucking monsters, cannibals, covid, Holly, holly gibney, horror, narfna, Stephen King, Suspense, thrillers ·
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Kingdom of Needle and Bone- THAT’S the Mira Grant I know and love!

Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant

December 9, 2023 by NatteringwPride Leave a Comment

We live in an age of wonders. Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. Vaccination and treatment are widely available, not held in reserve for the chosen few. There are still monsters left to fight, but the old ones, the simple ones, trouble us no more. Or so we thought. For with the reduction in danger comes the erosion of memory, as pandemics fade from memory into story […]

Filed Under: Featured, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Mira Grant

NatteringwPride's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Featured, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Mira Grant ·
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Monstrocity! Your kind of town

Olivia Wolf and the Moldy Sandwich by Jose Fragoso

Olivia Wolf and the Night of the Giant Monsters by Jose Fragoso

Olivia Wolf and a Million Olivia's by Jose Fragoso

December 7, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

There are no dull days in Monstrocity! Or at least that is what the publisher’s description says. But if the first two books of this series are any indication, then they are right! Olivia Wolf and the Moldy Sandwich by Jose Fragoso, followed by Olivia Wolf and the Night of the Giant Monsters are packed with early reader/early graphic novel adventures. Book one has three main parts, a little science, a lot of humor and a mystery. There is usually a short “message” but not overly “educational” in the sense you […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: adventure, friendship, Jose Fragoso, magic, monsters, school

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:862 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: adventure, friendship, Jose Fragoso, magic, monsters, school ·
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