Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster
Plot: Honoria and her two young siblings are on the run from one of the most powerful Blue Bloods in London. But where to go where they can't be reached? Only Whitechapel, where a rogue Blue Blood has established dominion and even fought off the mechanical army of the aristocracy. The place is still … [Read more]
Rogues' Gallery by John Oller
I was jonesing for a New York City gangster tale last week. I finally started Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York but quit when I realize that the book is less glorious embellishment and more fan fiction. Frustrated, I looked for a substitute and then remembered I purchased John Oller's Rogues' … [Read more]
Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour by Andre R. Frattino, et al.
Looking for another book to read, I searched through NPR's Best Books List for something new and found another graphic novel. Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour: A Japanese American Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption after World War II (2022) by Andre R. Frattino, Kate Kasenow, and Janice … [Read more]
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
I predict that I won't remember I read this book in a few years... so it's really going to be like this book was never here (rimshot). This book initially had a whiff of Single White Female, a la the 1992 movie starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, wherein a female friend starts to take … [Read more]
In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalez
Cbr15passport books from different countries (Colombia) I learned about this short novel from a NYT “By the Book” interview with Patricia Engel. When asked about a great book that no one seems to know about, she mentioned Tomas Gonzalez’s In the Beginning Was the Sea (published in 1983, English … [Read more]
The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman
The Bullet That Missed is the 3rd in the series of the Thursday Murder Club Mysteries. I adore the characters and I can never get enough of them working through their difficult cases that often overlap other cases. This one starts as all the others do. The gang gets together to choose a cold case to … [Read more]
