Author Archives
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She Lies in Wait by Gytha Lodge
A promising debut that will be sure to delight fans of brilliant police procedural series… Aurora Jackson, an intelligent, pretty 14-year-old girl disappears at a campsite while camping with her older sister and sister’s five friends in Brinken Wood in… Read More ›
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The Liar’s Wife by Samantha Hayes
With its everyday narration and ordinary writing style, The Liar’s Wife is a tedious read at best… Ella Sinclair meets an accident and wakes up in a hospital bed to find a man claiming to be her husband. Used… Read More ›
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Juan Castell and Aunt Sofia’s Giant Book of Please, Thank You, Welcome by Ian Sadler
An educational, beautiful book with interesting illustrations and interesting prose… Juan, a polite young boy, is preparing for aliens’ visit to the earth as everyone else in the world is doing. He is already good at using the words ‘please’,… Read More ›
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Once a Liar by A.F. Brady
Intricately plotted, this psychological thriller grabs the reader from the start and doesn’t let go until the truth about killer is finally revealed… Peter Caine, a ruthless and one of the best Manhattan defense attorneys, has learned only to… Read More ›
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The Perfect Alibi by Phillip Margolin
A multilayered thriller which feels fractured due to lack of cohesiveness… A prominent college athlete rapes a girl and ends up in jail based on the DNA evidence, only to have his DNA show up in another rape case while… Read More ›
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Watcher in the Woods by Kelley Armstrong
A lost cause… Rockton is a secret town in the harsh wilderness of Yukon in Northern Canada for people who have reasons to leave their past behind and start anew. Homicide detective Casey Duncan who is in town for a… Read More ›
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Mack’s World of Wonder. The Cutest Baby Animals by Mack van Gageldonk
An adorable, informative book about baby animals on the farm and in the wild with stunning pictures and illustrations perfectly suitable for kindergarten kids… In Mack’s World of Wonder: The Cutest Baby Animals, the narrative follows a strict routine; the… Read More ›
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The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke
An absolutely brilliant book from the master storyteller… In The New Iberia Blues, Dave Robicheaux and Sean McClain, a new addition to the staff, interview Desmond Cormier, a Louisiana-born film director at his waterside estate about reports of a screaming… Read More ›
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Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
The very unusual thing about Lethal White by Robert Galbraith is that it is a whodunit, and it is almost 700 pages long; unusually long for a mystery. Two hundred pages in the book, and you will realize the editors… Read More ›