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Review: The Headmaster’s Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (February 25, 2014) ISBN-10: 1250038944 Source: Publisher Being a headmaster is in Arthur Winthrop’s genes. Like his father before him, he serves as the headmaster of Lancaster School, an elite private school in … Continue reading
Review: Fallen Beauty by Erika Robuck
Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: NAL Trade (March 4, 2014) ISBN-10: 0451418905 Source: Publisher Laura Kelly is a young seamstress living in 1928 upstate New York. After her father’s death and her own “fall from grace” (becoming pregnant out of wedlock), the only way … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, NAL, Review
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Edna St. Vincent Millay, upstate New York
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Frightful Friday: Snowblind by Christopher Golden
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured title is Snowblind by Christopher Golden: Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press; First Edition edition (January 21, … Continue reading
Review: The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Doubleday (February 11, 2014) ISBN-10: 0385538499 Source: Publisher West Hall, Vermont has a centuries-old history of strange disappearances and activity tracked back to old, family legends. The most infamous is that of Sara Harrison Shea, found … Continue reading
Posted in Doubleday, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Thriller
Tagged folklore, mother-daughter connections, supernatural
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Review: The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Harper (February 11, 2014) ISBN-10: 006228553X Source: Publisher Bartholomew Neil has cared for his mother for the entire thirty-eight years of his life. When she passes away from cancer, he’s left with an emptiness in his … Continue reading
Review: The Martian by Andy Weir
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Crown (February 11, 2014) ISBN-10: 0804139024 Source: Publisher Mark Watney is one of several astronauts making up the crew of the Ares 3 mission to Mars. Just days into their mission, the Acidalia region is hit … Continue reading
Posted in Crown Publishers, Literary Fiction, Review, Science Fiction, Thriller
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Review: Ripper by Isabel Allende
Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Harper (January 28, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062291408 Source: Publisher Amanda Jackson has always been interested in the evil side of human nature. It started at a relatively young age and has progressed so dramatically that she, along with her grandfather, take … Continue reading
Posted in Harper Books, Review
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Review: Stumptown Volume 1 by Greg Rucka
Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher: Oni Press (April 5, 2011) ISBN-10: 1934964379 Source: Personal copy Dex is a private investigator in a bit of a slump. Not only is business slow, but she in debt with the Confederated Tribes of the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime Fiction, graphic novel, Oni Press, Review
Tagged Portland, private investigator
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Review: Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus
Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books; Reprint edition (December 24, 2013) ISBN-10: 1250039770 Source: Publisher Eleven years ago, then twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius was convicted of killing two seventeen-year-old girls based on circumstantial evidence alone and sentenced to ten years in … Continue reading
Posted in Minotaur Books, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Thriller
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Frightful Friday: Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured title is Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough: Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books (January 14, 2014) … Continue reading
