Book Review: Cocaine by Pascal Engman

Corruption, corruption, corruption... What people won't do for a taste of power. Cocaine by Pascal Engman starts off like any good crime thriller: with a dead body found under mysterious circumstances—in this case, an unidentiable man off the coast of Sweden. Shortly thereafter, the police find a downed cessna, the local community is flooded with... Continue Reading →

Re-read & Second Book Review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

One of the creepiest horror books I've ever read - still! This one is a bit different for me, a rare treat actually, because this is, in fact, a re-read. I, for some reason, very seldom read books more than once. It's not that I don't want to, and I often find myself thinking I... Continue Reading →

Book Review: Girl Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

I jumped into this head first, blind as a bat, and came out on the other side with a new thriller author on my list of greats. Damn, what a book! The plot: newly minted US Marshall Andrea Oliver is sent to Longbill Beach to protect a judge who's been receiving death threats. Simple enough,... Continue Reading →

Book Review: The Dragon And The Butterfly by Abby Simpson

A historical fiction masterpiece! I went into this not knowing what to expect. Despite being an archaeologist by trade and being generally fascinated by history, AND having studied in England, I knew nothing about Matilda and William, whom this book is about. I do love books though, and I realized last year that I enjoy... Continue Reading →

Book Review: The Couple At No. 9 by Claire Douglas

What an incredible book! This is the kind of thriller people talk about around the water cooler! Right from the start I was hooked. Everything pulled me in, the plot, the pacing, the characters, the voices... I loved everything about how this is written and how the story slowly builds. The plot is simple: Saffron... Continue Reading →

Book Review: One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve by M. Shaw

What an exquisitely strange type of horror. Shaw has created something delightfully strange and haunting with this novella - as it starts off with two halves of a corpse waking up together in a morgue. They don't know why or how, or what has happened to them - all they know is that they've only... Continue Reading →

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