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Not as Good as Christie

And Death Came Too by Richard Hull

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well. This was a bummer. I was hoping for a smart and interesting murder mystery. I just didn’t like how this was written sadly. We had many characters and Hull doesn’t develop them enough for you to care. The book also ended on a weird note before pushing me to another book that he wrote. I have no interest of that one at all. “And Death Came Too” follows a group of people (Gerald Lansely, Martin Hands, and Patricia Hands (sister to Martin […]

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2/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

Ugh, Dad, You’re Embarrassing Me…

The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford

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And so I have come to the end of Charles Willeford’s Hank Moseley series which, while at times was quite entertaining, mostly disappointed me after its great entry (Miami Blues). As I said in my reviews of the last two books, I expected more cat-and-mouse affairs with Moseley and criminals. I didn’t think this would be a series about a sad sack cop’s private life with some police bureaucracy and a little detective work thrown in. That’s mostly what these books are. And while I’ve critiqued Moseley’s racism in past reviews, it’s time to stop dancing around it: the dude […]

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2/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Persistence of Time

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

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It’s official: I like Josephine Tey. It’s also official: I am not a fan of the classic British mystery novel. Josephine Tey is yet another writer I’ve been meaning to come back to for a long time. I finished The Daughter of Time in one day, two separate sittings. The premise was simple but the execution took my breath away. I gave myself a headache straining to read from page-to-page. The Franchise Affair is a slightly more conventional mystery albeit with an interesting twist: a young girl claims to have been held hostage by two women at a remote house called The Franchise. The […]

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2/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

“I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it’s there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.”

Sadie by Courtney Summers

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A few weeks ago, I had a chance to go and see Cannonball favorite Karen McManus talking about her new book, Two Can Keep a Secret, along with another YA author I hadn’t previously heard of, Megan Miranda. I asked them a few questions during the panel, including wondering what they — as writers of suspenseful YA fiction — liked to read, and were currently reading. They both, without hesitation, told me to read Sadie by Courtney Summers, right away. So, I did. I knew nothing going into this book, and I’m glad. I may not have otherwise picked it […]

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2/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

“Beautiful girl, lovely dress, where she is now I can only guess”

Good as Gone by Amy Gentry

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How does it affect a family when the worst thing imaginable happens? How do parents influence their child’s decisions without even realizing that they’re doing it? How do you deal with the fact that your long lost loved one might be an imposter? These are some of the themes throughout Amy Gentry’s suspense novel Good as Gone. The novel begins eight years from the present day when young Julie Whitaker is taken from her bedroom at knife point by an unknown abductor never to be seen again. The only witness is her terrified younger sister. We rejoin the family in […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Older, but still beautiful

After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman

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After I’m Gone – 3/ 5 Earlier this year, I read a Patricia Cornwell novel that supposedly takes place in Richmond. But I don’t recognize the Richmond in that book at all, even after living in the city for six years. I lived in Baltimore for one year, taught in a school there, watched through The Wire a few times, and go back periodically for various reasons. This book takes place in a Baltimore I recognize. This Baltimore has suburbs, it has neighborhoods and people separate from the police, the drug trade, and other elements such as these that center […]

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2/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:81 |

I only write long Rowling reviews

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

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It took me much longer to read this book than I thought it would. Sure, it’s a 22.5-hour audiobook and that’s a decent amount of listening time for something that absolutely could not be “background” noise listening – my brain had to be engaged – but I started this book nearly two months ago (although I did take a two-week break). Some of it had to do with the type of story Rowling is telling, there’s a lot of plot here. Some of it is also the layers of meaning she is including and the commentary on family, loyalty, fame, […]

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2/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Academic Fiction at it’s Best but also Worst

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

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It’s probably been 15 years since I’ve read anything substantial by Umberto Eco. I’m pretty sure I was maybe a sophomore or junior in college the first time I read The Name of the Rose. Now, I find myself in the position of needing to reread it for a work-related event. In the intervening decade and a half, I’ve gotten a lot better at Latin, and I’ve also been exposed to a lot more primary source material concerning theology, philosophy, science, literature, and history of the European Middle Ages, as well as 20th century literary theory. What do my academic qualifications […]

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2/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |


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