🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Interesting and suspenseful, this read is a cut-above the pack, a thriller which takes the time to let complex characters simmer, the author dropping tantalizing clues (from several point-of-views and time periods) of both what’s to come and what has already transpired - not quite giving the reader enough…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fascinating fictionalized re-telling of the horrors of serial killer Ted Bundy, with a key difference. This story is told not in terms of the protagonist Bundy himself, (who is so small and undeserving of our focus in every way that he is not in fact, even granted a…
🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 Atmospheric and evocative, Book 3 in the Two Rivers (Inspector Matthew Venn) series, this author (and this series) can be counted on for all the elements of a top-notch police procedural, with the bonus of a team of detectives, led by Inspector Matthew Venn, as well-developed, multi-layered and interesting…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ An eclectic collection of stories from one of my very favorite authors, which this reader found as unexpectedly delightful as anything ever met, between the pages. What if you got to do a do-over? Not one, actually, but if you were granted an infinite number of chances to build…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A very strange book, and one that is so unique it is virtually guaranteed to evoke strong feelings in the reader - as this is a book that will challenge as much as it enthralls. Narrated by a voice that is ageless, unnamed, and only very loosely described as…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A slow burn, this gothic-inspired novel is dark, claustrophobic and brimming with fetid secrets. Jude, our middle-aged first-person POV narrator, is as unreliable as they come. Never fully sober, Jude is hallucinatory, and traumatized as she takes a trip down memory lane. On her first solo visit to the…
🌟🌟🌟💫 With plenty of suspects, this intricately-plotted legal thriller kept me engaged right up through the twists and turns and eventual chilling ending. The horrific murder of an entire family, - mom, dad, adult son and teenage daughter - has the Portland, Oregon community reeling. When Robin Lockwood, criminal defense…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fast and furious look at memory, trauma and the terror of navigating both, as we meet a survivor of a terrible crime, nine years later, and share in her frantic quest to resolve her part in a past she cannot reconstruct. Charlie Colbert, now a successful NY editor-in-chief,…
🌟🌟🌟💫 An earnest, albeit depressing, look at climate change, thirty years down the road, and the political upheaval at play in a world no more divided than what what we have in place today. As tensions rise to the critical point, measures put in place by a ‘Green New Deal’-…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An interesting and intelligent anthology of essays covering the stories, analysis and commentary of a number of excellent true-crime writers. The authors consider many aspects, including but not limited to the traditional true-crime narrative, as they unpack societal influences and larger issues surrounding crime and its encapsulation in media,…