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About Zirza

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I am an English teacher from the Low Countries. Like everyone else I aspire to one day write a Booker Prize Winner, but until then I contend my self with writing bitchy reviews.

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I’d rather not

Look for me by Lisa Gardner

April 10, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

On a pleasant spring day, Detective D.D. Warren is called in from a day out with her husband and son to investigate a quadruple homicide. A family of four has been shot and killed in their home. A fifth member, eldest daughter Roxy, is still missing along with the family’s two dogs. As she’s seen fleeing the crime scene, the question immediately rises whether Roxy escaped in a panic, or whether she’s involved with the murder.  Let me start with the essential part here: the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: child abuse, DD Warren, foster care, Lisa Gardner

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: child abuse, DD Warren, foster care, Lisa Gardner ·
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All in the Family

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

March 14, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, the bodies of the Pine family are found in a rented villa in Tulum, Mexico: the parents, Liv and Evan, and their two youngest children, seventeen year old Maggie and six year old Tom. The only survivors are the couple’s older sons, Matt and Danny. Danny is in prison for murdering his high school girlfriend and so it’s left to Matt to pick up the pieces. At first, he assumes they died by carbon monoxide poisoning, but then the FBI […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Alex Finlay, Every last breath, thriller

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Alex Finlay, Every last breath, thriller ·
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‘Cause I’m right here, right here, right here at home

The Searcher by Tana French

March 8, 2021 by Zirza 1 Comment

Retired Chicago police detective Cal Hooper looks back on his life – divorced, stuck in a job that makes him increasingly uncomfortable – and decides to buy a fixer-upper in the small town of Artnakelty, Ireland. As he’s working on his house he’s approached by Trey, a twelve year old from a family widely regarded as no good by the villagers. Trey asks Cal to look into the disappearance of his older brother and Cal, reluctantly, starts to to investigate. But he’s an outsider in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Ireland, Tana French, The Searcher

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Ireland, Tana French, The Searcher ·
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Only the Lonely

Find Her by Lisa Gardner

February 22, 2021 by Zirza 2 Comments

Seven years ago, young college student Florence ‘Flora’ Dane is kidnapped by a truck driver who keeps her as his personal toy for over four hundred days. Though she’s eventually found she struggles to find her place in society, to reform the bond with her family. In search of meaning, she sets out to find other missing women by going to bars, getting drunk, allowing men to pick her up and then turning into a fury when they try to hurt her. She’s clever, inventive, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: DD Warren, Flora Dane, kidnapping, Lisa Gardner, Rape, sexual violence, Trigger Warning

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: DD Warren, Flora Dane, kidnapping, Lisa Gardner, Rape, sexual violence, Trigger Warning ·
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You know life is cruel, life is never kind

Neighborhood Watch by Joseph A. Turkot

February 10, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

It’s the fall of 1995 in a small, sleepy town in suburban America. A young boy named Brandon disappears while walking home from school. The people of the town assume he’ll come back on his own account, but his classmates, Jake and Colin, become less sure. They set out to discover what has happened to Brandon, but as more and more boys vanish from the neighborhood they inadvertently end up putting their own lives at risk.  Though it has been written from the perspective of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime thriller, joseph a. turkot, neighborhood watch, Teenagers

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime thriller, joseph a. turkot, neighborhood watch, Teenagers ·
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