The Murder Game by Linda Suzane
This is intriguing amateur sleuth tale as the heroine seeks closure with her mother’s death and finally after years has the opportunity to try to prove someone else stole the statue as Gwen rejects the premise of her mom being a thief. Her use of Long as her “mentor” guide [...]
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The Murder Game by Linda Suzane - Review
Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister - Review
Zen and the Art of Vampires (Dark Ones, Book 6) by Katie MacAlister
The latest Dark One screwball vampire romantic suspense comedy is a jocular action-packed tale. As always in this wonderful zany series, the heroine gets trapped in an out of control frenzied frolic once Kristoff meets Pia. Readers will enjoy this latest biting romp [...]
Night of the Loving Dead by Casey Daniels - Review
Night of the Loving Dead (Pepper Martin Mysteries, No. 4) by Casey Daniels
Anyone who believes communicating with ghosts would be fun, need to ask the heroine whose experience with the “gift” leaves her traumatic and seemingly always in danger; this is not sharing tea or lattes. Still her courage and desire, albeit reluctant, to help [...]
Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson - Review
Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson
There are some names you can’t ignore. When you find them attached to a particular fictional character, you can’t assume that blind coincidence prompted the writer’s choice. Call your girl-heroine Jane and there may be echoes of Jane Eyre, but the association is not forced on you. And a Cathy [...]
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi - Review
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi
Zoe’s Tale wouldn’t work if it weren’t for Zoë. John Scalzi insists the character is not based on his daughter. But he has poured enough paternal love into the creation and development of his plucky teen heroine to raise global sea levels by a full meter. Result: the character breathes such [...]
Marsbound by Joe Haldeman - Review
Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
Good grief, is everybody trying to write Heinlein juveniles these days? Joe Haldeman’s Marsbound falls four-square into the aesthetic of the late Grand Master’s legendary space adventures, with only a handful of digressions into adult content (such as a frank approach to its heroine’s budding sexuality). I had a good time with [...]
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold - Review
The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
Desperate to escape the ‘crying, barking and biting’ of her mentally ill octogenarian mother, Helen Knightly fulfils a lifelong dream: she murders her. Alice Sebold’s follow-up to The Lovely Bones depicts a lonely, suburban divorcee as she wrestles with five decades of painful memories and the 24-hour aftermath [...]
Before I Die by Jenny Downham - Review
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Jenny Downham is capable of exquisite, almost fevered writing, but she’s also a master of pace, slowly establishing a heroine so brimful of life that it is wrenching to endure the attritions of the final pages.
Review: Before I Die by Jenny Downham | Books | The Observer.
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin - Review
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
The movies have provided escapism for so long that we tend to forget that the actors onscreen are themselves often trying to escape. For the orphaned Lilly Nelly Aphrodite, the heroine of Beatrice Colin’s new novel, “The Glimmer Palace, ” “ the only reality she could grasp was the reality [...]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson - Review
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
The original Swedish title of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was the much more blunt Män som hatar kvinnor — ‘Men who hated women’ — and while not quite as catchy or appealing that is much closer to the mark. Not only because there are some men who [...]
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