Big Noise by Jen Wright is a Northwood's thriller you can curl up with on a snowy night. Main character, Jo, is in need of a vacation from her stressful work dealing with troubled and…
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Squandered Potential
No book has ever quite disappointed me like The Little Friend. That's not to say I didn't like it (or, at least, parts of it). It's just that the beginning and, to a lesser extent,…
6 questions we always ask, Judith Yates Borger, author
Judith Yates Borger has written for the Pioneer Press, The New York Times, and (my personal favorite) MinnPost. Now, she can add a novel to that list of publications. Tomorrow marks the release of Where’s…
Don’t judge this book by its cover . . . then again . . .
Maybe it’s a guy thing. Maybe it’s just me. Had Julie Kramer’s newest mystery novel, Missing Mark, not been highly recommended I wouldn’t have given it a second glance. To me, the cover looks more…
Soul Searching
Saving souls just isn't what it used to be for P.I. Stephan Raszer. Hired to find a young girl missing from the Jehovah's Witness chosen flock, Raszer may have stumbled into a case more deadly…
Hell Swamp
Two things attracted me to Susan Whitfield’s Hell Swamp from the get-go. First of all – the title. Hell Swamp just shouts horror! Second – the cover art. Looking at the cover, well, it looks…
People Who Walk in Darkness
While browsing the bookstore shelves the other day, I was very pleasantly surprised to see a new Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov novel by award-winning novelist Stuart Kaminsky. I had no qualms about buying this book without…
TICK TOCK…pfft
This is my first official book review, so bear with me. . . Most books I read require little thinking and I choose them so I can basically get lost for a while. I enjoy…
The big suck
Oof. I only balked a little when my Rock and Roll Bookclub picked Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. I thought, “hey, this is a genre-defining book, it can’t be too bad.” It can be too…
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel The Big Sleep is apparently the foundation on which the detective novel world was built. The Big Sleep is the first in a series of books that feature Los Angeles sleuth…