B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsCanada / crime thriller / police procedural / romantic-elements / Serial-Killer2 Comments
Trigger warning: graphic sexual and other violence – both in the book and in this review. Dear Loreth Anne White, One of my reviewer friends raved to me about this book and I was curious enough to give it a try. My friend also reads mysteries and thrillers and isn’t ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsPhotographer / romantic-suspense / Serial-Killer / Small-Town11 Comments
Dear Nora Roberts, I look forward every year to your stand alone romantic suspense books. Not all of them work as well for me as others. Last year’s offering, The Liar, was great but it read to me more like a contemporary than a romantic suspense book and the year ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsfuturistic / police procedural / Serial-Killer / Series17 Comments
Dear JD Robb, I’m an unabashed fan of the In Death series. This is book 41 and I’m still not sick of it. In the past few years, each book has tended to have one of two possible foci. I call them the more police procedural books or the more ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading Listsdisability / historical romance / mystery / New Adult / Reading lists / scottish historical / Serial-Killer19 Comments
While perusing Netgalley as well as recommendations from trusted sources, I discovered that a few of the books I was interested in were the second, third, or even later installments of a series. Then my list got longer when Carina Press put a slew of their mystery series’ first volumes on sale at $ ... more >
F ReviewsContemporary / Macmillan / mental illness / mystery / Portland / Serial-Killer / Young-Adult10 Comments
Dear readers, Help me. I think I’ve done something to anger the universe. Why do I say that? Because I am lost in a swamp of books that, at best, can be described as meh. And at worst — At worst, I get The Body in the Woods. The premise ... more >
D ReviewsHarper-Teen / London / Scotland Yard / Serial-Killer / Young-Adult2 Comments
Dear Ms. Ewell, Between Dexter and Barry Lyga’s I Hunt Killers, I think readers have begun growing accustomed to the idea of serial killer protagonists. It’s a tricky prospect — balancing a compelling protagonist that keeps you reading and reconciling that with the fact that they kill people. In many ... more >
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