mystery – Page 67 – Cannonball Read 17

If you think your flat is haunted by a murderous ghost, why would you try to summon said ghost?

Svarte-Mathilda by Tor Arve Røssland

October 17, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Twenty years after a teenage girl was brutally murdered in a small town near Bergen, Elizabeth moves into the long-empty flat with her mother. Elizabeth’s parents are going through a divorce, and in a tragic accident a while back, Elizabeth’s older brother died in a fire. She hates that they had to move away from her old home and her friends in Bergen, that her mother doesn’t seem to want to talk to her at all, and she certainly doesn’t like their new […]

I’m still not sure exactly what to make of this book and it’s been months.

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

October 17, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I found this an enjoyable reading experience, but it definitely wasn’t a perfect read for me. I’m gonna need to talk spoilers to get my full thoughts out, but they’ll be marked. But first, non-spoilery thoughts. Obviously you know from the title that this is a book about maps, and people who make, study, and collect maps. It’s also about family, secrets, magic, and murder. Our main character is Nell, whose mother died in a fire when she was a small child, and whose father […]

Cold as Hell

The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe

October 16, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14Bingo: series. This is the first in what’s referred to Stateside as the “Hanne Lagerlind-Schon” series. It’s also part of a series of popular “Nordic Noir” and/or “Scandinavian Noir” tales that have made it to the United States. I don’t really know what to make of Camilla Grebe’s interesting, sometimes frustrating, always compelling The Ice Beneath Her, except to say that I enjoyed it. It’s twisty to be sure but I always felt like the twists were grounded in the pathos of […]

Hell Is Empty

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

October 14, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14 Bingo: verse. This book frequently quotes the “Hell is empty, all the devils are here” passage from “The Tempest”, as well as verses from a fictional short story inspired by that passage. This left me with the same feeling I felt when I first read Tana French’s debut novel In the Woods: good but I feel like it’s missing something to prevent it from being great. I really liked the first half of the book: getting to know the three POV characters, […]

The Night Stalker … In Print

The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels by Jeff Rice

October 13, 2022 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

I like to find the original literary sources for movies that I like (see past reviews of Strangers on a Train, Rosemary’s Baby, Breakfast at Tiffany’s), so I was happy to find out that an old television show from my childhood, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, actually started life out as a book. The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels includes the first two novels that introduced intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak, who has a flair for detecting the supernatural. They first debuted in 1970 and are now […]

Do You want to Build a Snowman (I Hope Not)

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø

October 13, 2022 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

I usually like to start a series from the beginning, but I had already seen the movie The Snowman with Michael Fassbender, so decided to just try the novel by Jo Nesbø and see how they compared. It probably would have been better if I had done those two things in reverse order, but that’s how it was. This is the seventh book in Nesbø’s series featuring Norwegian Detective Harry Hole. Harry, like all good, classic detectives, has his issues – he’s an introvert, but […]

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