Books of the Week: Ghostman, Roger Hobbs Trailer Park Fae, Lilith Saintcrow The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss, Max Wirestone Tin Men, Christopher Golden While I indulged myself during my previous travels by reading books I’d read before, this time I did read...
2015
Books & Blog: June 18, 2015
Books of the Week: Swerve – Vicki Pettersson Dead Ice – Laurell K. Hamilton Hex on the Ex – Rochelle Staab Vicki Pettersson has long been a favorite writer in the paranormal field, and she’s certainly a delightful person. When she told me she’d written something...
Books & Blog: May 26, 2015
Books of the Week: Plague Town, Plague Nation, Plague World, Dana Fredsti Lord Peter Wimsey books, Dorothy L. Sayers The Harry Potter Books, J.K. Rowling I met Dana Fredsti at the Bram Stoker weekend in Atlanta. Sometimes, only a good zombie novel will...
Books & Blog: April 27, 2015
Books of the Week: Jewel of the Thames, Angela Misri Baltic Gambit, E.E. Night Deliver Us, Kathryn Casey My friend Dana Cameron recommended Angela Misri's book. Dana, as well as Angela Misri, apparently, is quite a Sherlockian. Whether you are or not --- and...
Books & Blog: April 13, 2015
Books of the Week: The Witch with No Name, Kim Harrison Force of Attraction, D.D. Ayres A Lovely Way to Burn, Louise Welsh Duke City Desperado, Max Austin I've had The Witch with No Name on my TBR bookcase ever since it was published. I guess I just hated to end the...
Books & Blog: March 30, 2015
Books of the Week: Past Tense, Catherine Aird Poison Fruit, Jacqueline Carey The Shifting Price of Prey, Suzanne McLeod It’s only fair to remark that I got about a third of the way through a mystery when I realized I just didn’t care about any of the characters enough...
Books & Blog: March 23, 2015
Books of the Week Last Writes, Catherine Aird The Last Kashmiri Rose, Barbara Cleverly Now You See Her, Sharon Bolton Murder in Waiting, Mignon G. Eberhart Even minor work by Catherine Aird is sure to entertain, and this collection of her short stories is no...
Books & Blog: March 9, 2015
Books of the Week City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett Pocket Apocalypse, Seanan McGuire Deadshifted, Cassie Alexander Uprooted, Naomi Novik, on sale JUNE 30 The jacket copy, which calls City of Stairs a “stunningly original work of fantasy,” is not exaggerating. I...
Books & Blog: February 23, 2015
Books of the Week Burned, Karen Marie Moning Murder Most Persuasive, Tracy Kiely Bound by Flames, Jeaniene Frost As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, Alan Bradley Vision in Silver, Anne Bishop Mystery in White, J. Jefferson Farjeon I’ve read a delightful assortment of...
Books & Blog: January 26, 2015
Books of the Week: Nice, Jen Sacks The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss Dry Bones in the Valley, Tom Bouman Symbiont, Mira Grant Jen Sacks’s Nice came recommended by another member of Sisters in Crime. The description of it – “A girl hates breaking up...