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Elder LOTR/Holmes fan girl/writer since forever. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: elderberrywine's Quick Questions interview.)

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Aww, Who’s the Good Boi?

Widow-Maker by Paul Doiron

December 10, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Unlike the previous Mike Bowditch, game warden series, this book focuses on a particular moral dilemma.  A couple of teens are attending an elite ski boarding school near the Widow-maker Ski Resort in central Maine.  The girl, about a year younger, is from a wealthy connected family and is clearly being groomed to be a champion.  The boy, a scholarship kid, has a more uncertain future, but he is putting his best effort into it.  But things don’t go well, and the boy, who has […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: High school sweethearts sex offenders?, Mike Bowditch Game Warden, Paul Doiron, Shitty father so ya never know, Snowy Maine, So many moral dilemmas, Wolf Dogs a touchy subject

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: High school sweethearts sex offenders?, Mike Bowditch Game Warden, Paul Doiron, Shitty father so ya never know, Snowy Maine, So many moral dilemmas, Wolf Dogs a touchy subject ·
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French Noir

Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette

December 4, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

May I quote a reviewer – “Writing so dark it gives a new meaning to the word noir.”  Welp, this is definitely murky to the extreme, but a lot of that was on myself as the reader. Written by French crime writer Manchette in 1976, Skeletons in the Closet is a fast paced tale of private eye Eugene Tarpon, hired to theoretically search for the daughter of a little old lady.  There are no leads, and those who hire him are connected with the police, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: 1970s French Noir, Down on his luck PI hired just to make nice but can't let it go, French car chases in and out of Paris, French cars!, French firearms!, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Really getting lost here, Where is the French Humphrey Bogart?

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:62 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: 1970s French Noir, Down on his luck PI hired just to make nice but can't let it go, French car chases in and out of Paris, French cars!, French firearms!, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Really getting lost here, Where is the French Humphrey Bogart? ·
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A Wonderful Winter’s Tale

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

November 20, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Foxes are foxes, to be sure, but they can also present themselves as humans.  They tend to be beautiful or handsome, and humans in their presence can become somewhat confused about what just happened.  Some are tricksters by nature, while others are quite serious.  And many just enjoy living among humans. Snow is not one of the later.  She is out for revenge.  She had left her child, curled up in a barrow in the snow while she went hunting, and while she was gone, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: A mother's search, Always being able to hear a lie not always the greatest gift, Fox people, Late life reunion, Northern Asia in the 1920s, Those who hunt for pelts are the worst can we all agree?, Yangsze Choo

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:61 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: A mother's search, Always being able to hear a lie not always the greatest gift, Fox people, Late life reunion, Northern Asia in the 1920s, Those who hunt for pelts are the worst can we all agree?, Yangsze Choo ·
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So Apartheid South Africa Was Way More Complicated than Black vs White

Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn

November 17, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

So we are back in the newly segregated apartheid version of South Africa, as formed in the 1950s.  Detective Emmanuel Cooper has had to revert from his former status as WWII vet and (most importantly) white person, to mixed race instead.  But Major van Niekerk (white Afrikaner) has a need for him and his partner and friend, the Zulu Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala, tracker extraordinaire.  A poor young white boy, Jolly Marks, had been found in the port town of Durban, South Africa, near the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: 50s South Africa, But who would bother killing these people?, Malla Nunn, Nothing is black and white, Poor choices are made and the imaginary Scots drill master is here to tell you so, The unholy trinity - a mixed race a Zulu and a Jew, Then of course the feds step in and that is never a good sign

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:60 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: 50s South Africa, But who would bother killing these people?, Malla Nunn, Nothing is black and white, Poor choices are made and the imaginary Scots drill master is here to tell you so, The unholy trinity - a mixed race a Zulu and a Jew, Then of course the feds step in and that is never a good sign ·
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Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair

Sun City by Tove Jansson

November 11, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Veering far afield from her native Finland, Jansson (of Moomin fame) writes of the denizens of St. Petersburg, Florida, and its retirement community.  They live in retirement hotels, within walking distance of the piers and parks, not to mention the Bounty.  Built as a full-scale replica for the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty, it served as a tourist attraction connected with the St. Petersburg Museum of History from the mid-60s through the mid-80s, and its masts are easily viewed from the porches and verandas […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: 1970s, 70s nostalgia like whoa, But then there is the Spring Ball, Jesus is coming any day now! Sure we'll let you know, Mutiny on the Bounty ship tourist attraction, St Petersburg FL retirement hotels, Tove Jansson

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:59 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 1970s, 70s nostalgia like whoa, But then there is the Spring Ball, Jesus is coming any day now! Sure we'll let you know, Mutiny on the Bounty ship tourist attraction, St Petersburg FL retirement hotels, Tove Jansson ·
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Mankiller Coyotes? C’mon now.

The Precipice by Paul Doiron

November 7, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

So this latest installment of Mike Bowditch, Maine Game Warden, unexpectedly hit home for me. The featured animal was not the usual moose, wolf, elk, or deer, but rather the coyote.  Friends, I live in coyote country (actually, most US residents do).  But they have been my neighbors most of my life. I live in Southern California in a suburban area that directly backs into National Forest land.  Not to mention that directly behind my back wall is a heavily brushy hill, with a couple […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: And more than one shady fellow hiker, And yikes that dropoff is steep, Bounty hunting, But is it a serial killer?, Coyotes - not the apex preditor, Lesbian hikers!, Maine wilderness, Mike Bowditch Game Warden, Paul Doiron

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: And more than one shady fellow hiker, And yikes that dropoff is steep, Bounty hunting, But is it a serial killer?, Coyotes - not the apex preditor, Lesbian hikers!, Maine wilderness, Mike Bowditch Game Warden, Paul Doiron ·
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