Author Archives

• The Lying Room by Nicci French

  By theprairiesbookreview on August 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    Predictable but suspenseful… In the pseudonymous French’s (the husband-wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) latest standalone, a married woman finds her lover killed and pushes herself into a tangled web of lies. When Neve Jennifer Connolly started… Read More ›

• A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #15) by Louise Penny

  By theprairiesbookreview on August 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    A brilliant mystery… Former chief superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec Armand Gamache investigates murder of a pregnant woman at Three Pines as he returns to work after a nine-month suspension and demotion in Penny’s latest marvelous mystery. Armand… Read More ›

• Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

  By theprairiesbookreview on August 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    Entertaining and twisty… After Amanda Pierce went missing, no one in the neighborhood thought much about it. But after rumors of a teenager breaking into people’s homes and hacking into their computers start circulating, the lives of neighborhood residents… Read More ›

• Nature is Unlimited Broadcasting Station: Flowers She Wore on Her Feet by Bertha Mkwelele, Edward Mkwelele

  By theprairiesbookreview on August 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    A short, beautiful account of a young life gone too soon… Bertha Mkwelele and Edward Mkwelele chronicle the short life span of their only daughter and first child Neema Mkwelele in this short biography. After graduating in BA (Hons)… Read More ›

• Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir by Lewis Kempfer

  By theprairiesbookreview on August 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    A candid, bare-it-all, and highly engrossing memoir… With unsparing candor, Lewis Kempfer chronicles decades of his drug and sex addicted life in intimate detail in Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir. Kempfer started struggling… Read More ›

• DEAD BEFORE MORNING (Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series #1) by Geraldine Evans

  By theprairiesbookreview on August 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    A lively and highly engrossing British mystery… Evans’s first installment in Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series see DI Rafferty and Sergeant Llewellyn investigating vicious murder of a young woman at an unlikely place. Recently promoted Detective Inspector Joe… Read More ›

• The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol by Kevin Purdy

  By theprairiesbookreview on August 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    A spooky, delightful Halloween read… A happy, content Decimus Croome changed for worst after his wife’s untimely demise and is a bitter old man now who despises every festival, especially Halloween. A cranky recluse, he lives in his gloomy… Read More ›