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Perfect Crime by Helen Fields

The Donor by Clare Mackintosh

Fractured by Karin Slaughter

September 25, 2022 by Zirza 1 Comment

The Perfect Crime (Helen Fields) *** Stephen Berry is having a rough night. Or a rough life, really; he cannot seem to get his bipolar disorder under control and his long-suffering girlfriend has left him. Desperate for some quiet, he intents to jump off a bridge, but a suicide counsellor who happens to be nearby intervenes. Stephen is quietly grateful, but then his body is found dead a few weeks later at the bottom of a tall tower. The cause of death seems like a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: APD, Atlanta, Clare Mackintosh, DI Callenach, donor transplant, edinburgh, Fractured, GBI, Helen Fields, Helen Sarah Fields, James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes, Karin Slaughter, little book of misogyny, Luc Callanach, Perfect Crime, scotland, sex crimes, sexism, The Donor, Trigger Warning, Will Trent, Will Trent Series, women, women in crime fiction

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: APD, Atlanta, Clare Mackintosh, DI Callenach, donor transplant, edinburgh, Fractured, GBI, Helen Fields, Helen Sarah Fields, James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes, Karin Slaughter, little book of misogyny, Luc Callanach, Perfect Crime, scotland, sex crimes, sexism, The Donor, Trigger Warning, Will Trent, Will Trent Series, women, women in crime fiction ·
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Weird mix of weird

October 17, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Across Five Aprils: 4/ 5 Stars This is another Civil War book, and another Civil War book taking place in the midwest, that I read as a kid. I grew up in the South and thought about the Civil War a LOT. It happens. Anyway, like Rifles for Watie mentioned in the previous one, this focuses on the western theater of the war but still deals a lot with the news from the East. This becomes a kind of interesting conceit, where our main character […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: across five aprils, black dahlia and white rose, irene hunt, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, little book of misogyny, Patricia Highsmith, rosalyn schanzer, Wide Sargasso Sea, witches

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:417 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: across five aprils, black dahlia and white rose, irene hunt, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, little book of misogyny, Patricia Highsmith, rosalyn schanzer, Wide Sargasso Sea, witches ·
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