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Review Date: 7/31/2012
Three children go off to play in the woods. Hours later when they don't return, the parents call the police. the police find only one of the children gripping the trunk of a tree wearing blood-filled sneakers and unable to recall a single detail.
20 years later, Detective Rob Ryan is the boy who was found, although he has kept that part of his life secret even to his good friend and partner Cassie Maddox. Then as part as the Dublin Murder Squad, he and Cassie are assigned to the case of a 12 year old girl, killed in the same woods, where he was found. Knowing that if he tells his supervisor who he really is, he'll be pulled off the case and he doesn't want that. He wants to find the killer but he also wants to know what happened to him and his friends 20 years ago.
This is a great first novel and just when you think you know the ending, you'll be suprizsd.
20 years later, Detective Rob Ryan is the boy who was found, although he has kept that part of his life secret even to his good friend and partner Cassie Maddox. Then as part as the Dublin Murder Squad, he and Cassie are assigned to the case of a 12 year old girl, killed in the same woods, where he was found. Knowing that if he tells his supervisor who he really is, he'll be pulled off the case and he doesn't want that. He wants to find the killer but he also wants to know what happened to him and his friends 20 years ago.
This is a great first novel and just when you think you know the ending, you'll be suprizsd.
Review Date: 1/12/2010
Helpful Score: 2
This book is similar to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of Ãgreda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher the Lady in Blue. This wasn't as good as "The Secret Supper" but interesting. If you have an interest in angels, the Catholic church, conspiracy theories, then you'll like this. This was an audio book that I waslistening to in the car and sometimes I'd get home and it was in the middle of a good part and I'd end up sitting in the car for 15 to 30 minutes before I could shut it down.
Review Date: 8/9/2010
This is a wonderful beginning to a new series. Luna Wilder was bitten by a werewolf years ago during a rape but doesn't belong to a pack which makes life more dangerous, on top of that she is a police officer who most people don't know is a werewolf. Luna comes from a family of witches and was a disappointment to her grandmother who comes from a long line of witches. There's a serial killer out there, she first suspects Dimitri who is head of his clan. This is humorous as well as well written and an interesting new series.
Review Date: 1/13/2009
Helpful Score: 1
Hugh Corbaille was raised by two wonderful people who weren't really his parents, that wasn't an issue until his adoptive father dies and a visiting knight spots Hugh and believes that he is the missing child of the Earl of Wisltshire, mysteriously abducted thirteen years before on the same day the Earl was murdered. Hugh has no memory of his early years but he is curious when he finds out that the woman who is supposed to be his real mother is alive in a convent and so he sets out to find his past. The journey is going to be treacherous, the current Earl of Wiltshire does not plan on giving up the throne to this young man and someone is trying to kill him. This was a great mystery, if you enjoy these sort of historical mysteries Joan Wolf is wonderful.
Review Date: 8/2/2008
Helpful Score: 3
This is wonderful debut novel which won the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and was a Finalist for the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award. The main character Susan who is herself a lesbian finds a photo album from the 1920's in an antique store, takes it home and becomes obsessed with the pictures of the women she finds in the album and sets out to learn the history of these women, there's also a matter of her lover Catherine who doesn't understand Susan's desire and actually at times wonders if Susan isn't going crazy. This was like a mystery novel or maybe a jigsaw puzzle with some of the pieces missing and Susan is searching for the pieces. If you love historical fiction, or lesbian fiction that's well written, you'll love this book.
Review Date: 8/6/2010
This is a wonderfully written book and if you are a book lover you will find the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah fascinating. One of the best books I have read.
Review Date: 2/15/2010
In this book, Edgar Allan Poe has just died and is buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone thinks that he was a drunk and most people aren't very impressed with his writing. Except for Quentin Clark who is a lawyer and a big fan of the writer. He is convinced that Poe did not die the way everyone thinks he did, he decides that the person to solve the mystery is no less than C. Augustine Dupin, the detective from the story "Murders in the Rue Morgue". Convinced that the detective is not a fictional character. Quentin goes to France to find him, the iudea is to bring him back to Baltimore to solve the mystery of Poe's death. This book has so many twists and turns, you really have to pay attention to what's going on. I don't think this was as well written as "The Dante Club" but if you are a Poe fan, you might find this interesting.
Review Date: 4/13/2009
Helpful Score: 5
This is the fourth of the historical mysteries of Matthew Shardlake the hunchbacked lawyer, this is set during the twilight reign of Henry the VIII and the king is interested in taking a new wife which would make it his sixth. The lady in question Lady Catherine Parr is a widow whose husband has just died. Matthew is now Sgt Shardlake after his last escapade in York, he asked Bishop Cramner not to involve him in politics again, his latest client is a young man whose religious obsession lands him in Bedlam but after the murder of his good friend Roger Ellard, Matthew promises Roger's wife Dorothy that he will find his killer and when there appears to be link between Roger's murder and the woman the king wants to marry, Matthew is again caught up in the politics of the king's court. Sansom gets better with each book. If you like historical fiction, especially medieval mysteries you will like this book, however I suggest you start with the first one "Dissolution" and read them in order.
Review Date: 12/14/2008
Helpful Score: 1
This story has everything a pretty young woman, a serial killer, ties to an old mental hospital that was run by nuns and set in New Orleans. First Abby Chastain's Mom plunged to her death twenty years ago from the window at the mental hospitals where she was a patient as her young daughters witnessed it. Now Abby Chastain's ex-husband who as a radio talk show host just bad mouthed her over the airwaves, shortly afterwards he is found dead along with a young college student both of them found naked in an embrace but in real life never knew each other and then others are found dead. Either connected to Abby Chastain or Our Lady of Virtues Mental asylum which is no closed. This is a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat, there were several times when I came home and sat out in the car listening to this story anxious to know what was going to happen next.
Review Date: 12/23/2008
Sylvia Luynn never knew who her father was and was pretty much raised by her grandparents but when she graduated high school, she ran as as far she could from the woods when she went to college and then opened up a bookstore. Then a call from her grandmother who tells her to come home for her grandfather's funeral. Sylvia has a secret, after her grandfather's funeral, she finds out her grandmother has some secrets of her own. Sylvia is named heir of Lynn Hall and meets the women of the Fiber Guild which turns out to be more than a sewing circle, what these women sew are binding the forces that in the woods. Other family members have their own secrets and though her grandmother thinks that the house is safe from the fairy folk, that might not be the case. This was a good book to get into, very different from anything that I've read that calls itself fantasy, there may be sex but it isn't the focus of the book. The book is set up that each chapter is the point of view of different family members.
Review Date: 6/30/2011
This is a fantastic story. Even though some people have called this a DaVinci Code knockoff, I didn't think so at all, the story was interesting. If you interested in history, and you like old books you'll enjoy this tale from Napier. It's got lots of action as well.
Review Date: 6/4/2009
In this final Tales of the City novel from Armistead Maupin. Mary Ann Singleton is married to Brian who had lived up on the roof at Mrs. Madrigals. They have an adoptive daughter Shawna who was Connie's child, Mary Ann's friend Connie was also from Cleveland, if you saw the original series on Showtime. Connie had moved to San Fransisco first and when Mary Ann came out to San Fransisco, she stayed with Connie for a couple of days before finding the apartment on Barbary Lane. Connie died a few days after her daughter was born and had left a note asking Brian and Mary Ann to raise her. Michael (aka Mouse) has a new lover, Jon has died of AIDS and Mouse is HIV positive. Brian and Michael run a nursery and Mary Ann is the host of a local talk show. In this, New York has come calling in the form of Mary Ann's ex-lover Burke, Burke is a producer and wants Mary Ann to do her show in New York. Mrs. Madrigal is still around, passing out joints at her gatherings, she and Mona take a trip to the island of Lesbos and of course Mrs Madrigal finds a man there. Maupin is in fine form here as we say goodbye to old friends. All good things must come to an end.
Review Date: 5/8/2009
Catherine Linton's parents were killed in a car crash but Catherine Linton is suspicious and so she returns to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi where she takes a job on the local paper. Her father was the local doctor and when his nurse turns up murdered, she is sure that it's connected with the death of her parents though no one believes here. Lowfield is like many small towns in the South, on the surface it seems like a nice place to live, under the surface there are secrets and Catherine is convinced that someone's secret is getting people killed. Charlaine Harris does a great job with this book, it has suspects but when the real killer is revealed it's a shocker. This is a book that's easy to sit down with and not want to set it down until you're finished, fortunately at 290 and a quarter pages, that's not a problem.
Review Date: 3/3/2013
This is a really good historical mystery set in England during the rule of Henry III,set in a small Priory when their prioress dies rather than the individual that they wanted for the job, an young and inexperienced Eleanor of Wynethorpe is chosen. There is a lot going on, right after she gets there, a Brother Thomas comes to the Priory at the same time a monk is murdered. Also one of the priests have been siphoning off some of the money that comes into the Priory. this is a great story all the way around,it may be a place of monks and nuns but you still have greed and lust and murder.
Review Date: 8/9/2010
This is a collection of short stories set in New England written in 1988. Many of the authors are well known such as Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Ogden Nash, Howard Pyle and John Cheever. It is illustrated with black and white drawings by Peter Farrow. This not the stuff that we think os as horror today, this more subtle and humorous.
Review Date: 8/3/2010
This is a wonderful book, well written and an interesting subject but more than that it tells the story supposed to be based on a true story about what happens when a bolt of cloth from a traveling merchant turns out to be contaminated with the plague and the village caught up in the plague manage to survive for the year it takes for it to finally pass. The vicar of the village convinces the town to go into self imposed quarantine, the story itself is told through the eyes of the vicar's maid. If you like historical fiction, you'll love this, this is one of the best books I've ever read. I would also recommend "People of the Book" written by the same author.
Review Date: 1/17/2009
Helpful Score: 1
In 1665 the plague has hit London, so far the villages have escaped the ravages of that disease and then a tailor who travels from London in 1666 who is carrying the plague in his merchandise, Anna Firth was already a widow who lost her husband to the mine, she takes in the tailor because she could use the money, she has after all two children to feed. And then the tailor is dead and then both of her children and then other members of the village. The richest family in the village leaves them to the plague. The minister gets the town to agree to quarantine itself and so become the longest year of Anna's life as people in the town continue to die off. The one thing that keeps her going is her friendship with the minister and his wife. This is the second book of Geraldine Brooks that I have read, the first was "People of the Book". This is a wonderful story, of faith sometimes superstitions as of course the local healing woman get accused of witchcraft but interestingly enough not by the minister. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes historical fiction and anyone who likes a good story.
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