Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
I was lured in by another beautiful cover on the library shelf. A reference to William Gibson mixed with Raymond Chandler on the back, and I obviously had to bring this one home. Now that I’ve finished, I can say I’m glad that bright green caught my eye, but I’m not sure I’ll be actively searching out more Nick Harkaway. I’ve said before I love a gritty detective novel with a twist, and that’s just what this is. This is set in a future with […]
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
What it comes down to with this book is that I just had a great time while reading it. I really feel like Janice Hallett is getting better with every book. She had the puzzle element down in the first book but I didn’t care about the characters or connect emotionally with the story. In her second book, The Twyford Code, I connected hard with the characters thanks to some clever twistiness and she still had the nice puzzle element, even leveled up a little. With […]
Last Word to the Wise by Ann Claire
Ellie and Meg Christie, sisters and co-owners of the Book Chalet, have been winkled into testing out their cousin’s new matchmaking service. Ellie’s date is odious, but Meg hits it off with hers – until it seems like he’s stood her up for brunch the next day. Except it turns out that Joe Darcy is actually dead, and Meg is at the top of the suspect list. This is the second book in the Christie Bookshop Mystery series, a new cozy mystery series. I read […]
I Didn't Do It by Jaime Lynn Hendricks
I don’t have any perspective of being a published writer but as an aspiring one, I know all writers have an ego. You kind of have to; I mean, it takes a certain level of arrogance to think people are going to pay their hard-earned money to read what comes out of your brain. Hours, days of their lives they’re never gonna get back they’re willingly going to give you money for this experience. So yeah, you have to have one. However, I just attended […]
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox
I’ve read some real stinkers lately but luckily this gentle gothic mystery wasn’t one of them. The story begins in London, 1925, with young Ivy Radcliffe hurrying to her appointment with an unknown solicitor. Ivy lives a life of poverty and struggle in the East End. She has lost her whole family somewhat recently, her father and brother in the trenches of the Great War and her mother of illness soon after. The solicitor informs Ivy that she is now Lady Hayward, inheritor of the […]
Komarr by Lois Bujold
I typically get bored or annoyed before completing most long sci-fi or fantasy sagas; Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is the lone exception so far. Lois Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga has the potential to join that tiny club, although to be fair, I’ve only read one, Komarr. I’m pretty sure I saw someone’s rave review on here, but I’m sorry I don’t remember whose it was. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this series before then, but I’m glad to have found it. Komarr is both very […]
