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Things You Never Want to Find in the Deep Dark Woods

Knife Creek by Paul Doiron

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Welp, those feral hogs have somehow managed to make their way up from Texas to the hinterlands of Maine (Seriously?  Yeah, really.)  But when game warden Mike Bowditch is asked to take care of them (they are in his neck of the woods after all), he also discovers the recent shallow grave of a dead baby well, at least, most of it.  At least there is DNA evidence. Which, oddly enough, matches the DNA of a young woman who went missing on a rafting trio […]

Lady’s Man? Check. Doctor? Check. Master Tracker? Well, OK!

Present Darkness by Maslla Nunn

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This is the last of series I’ve been reading starring Detective Sergeant Cooper, Detective Constable Shabalala, and Doctor Zweigman in 1950s apartheid South Africa, or, as I have come to think of them, as Kirk, Spock and Bones (assuming Spock were a family man).  It is that family that is in the thick of this book.  Shabalala’s teen aged son has been accused of the murder of a white couple by their teenaged daughter.  That seems to be hard to believe, but she is sticking […]

Schrödinger’s Inheritance

Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane

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When I first started this, I thought, “Oooh, Mexican Gothic!  My favorite jam!”  But then it turned out to be a fictional/true story that, yes, was set in Mexico and had definite goth vibes.  But I’m ashamed to admit that it took half the book until I twigged as to what was really going on. So let’s start at the beginning.  The year is 1952.  Penelope is a young wife and mother with two children and another on the way.  She and her husband are […]

So Remember This for Spooky Season Next Year.

Ancirent Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood

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Read this collection during the Spooky Season, a couple of months back, and it was perfect. One of the stories, Ancient Sorceries, has been included in many an anthology, and I read it for the first time at about the age of 12.  As a life-long cat owner, I heartily approve.  The fact that Egyptians considered them deity-adjacent is not at all surprising.  But two of the other stories intrigued me greatly.  In both cases, there was no being that was the antagonist, but rather […]

Wait. They Did NOT Just Bury Her Sitting Up.

Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn

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Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper was brought up under rough circumstances in the slums of Johannesburg, South Africa.  Although mixed race, he presents as white, and managed as such to serve in the military for South Africa during WWII.  But since then, he has lost and then recovered his white papers in the turbulent years of the beginning of the apartheid period of the 1950s, due to the patronage of the Afrikaner Colonel van Niekirk, for entirely selfish reasons.  And with Cooper comes his best friend, […]



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