Author Archives
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Glass Houses by Louise Penny
A series going way off the mark and steering into an entirely different territory. Skip it… Glass Houses by Louise Penny opens with Armand Gamache, newly appointed Chief Superintendent of the Surete du Quebec, in the witness box to testify… Read More ›
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Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
A suspense-filled, thrilling read… A break from her regular series, Karin Slaughter explores mother daughter relationship and cult mentality in Pieces of Her. Children like to think mothers as mothers and nothing else. It is hard to imagine a mother as… Read More ›
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Full Disclosure by Beverley McLachlin
A technically precise legal thriller. McLachlin puts her experience on the Court to good use, writing her debut thriller with exact and to-the-point court proceedings without being overly stuffy. It is a debut thriller by Beverley McLachlin, the former Chief Justice of… Read More ›
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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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After the Fire by Will Hill
A YA book about plight of victims of religious cults… The book is roughly based on the US government’s investigation into the actions of the federal agencies during the Waco Siege after eighty-two members of the Branch Davidian religious sect… 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 ›
