B Reviews / Recommended ReadsAuction / Contemporary / England / mystery / second chances / thriller11 Comments
“Peek-a-boo I see you… When five-year-old Helen Stephens witnesses her mother’s murder, her whole world comes crumbling down. Rejected by her extended family, Helen is handed over to child services and learns to trust no-one but herself. Twenty years later, her mother’s killer is let out of jail, and Helen ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsalternate universe / California / death / FBI / HarperCollins / Sci-fi / thriller / Young-Adult12 Comments
Dear Ms. Norris, I admit I went into your debut novel not knowing much about it. I knew it was a YA. I had an idea about the basic set-up: a girl dies in a car accident and is brought back to life by a classmate. This somehow leads into ... more >
C- Reviewsghosts / Harlequin MIRA / mystery / Small-Town / South Carolina / thriller6 Comments
Dear Ms. Stevens, I enjoyed your previous novel, The Restorer, about the self-styled Graveyard Queen, Amelia Gray. It’s a morbid name but a fitting one. Amelia is a cemetery restorer, as well as the owner of a niche, but popular, blog. What few people know, however, is that she can ... more >
B Reviewsghosts / mystery / thriller9 Comments
Dear Ms. Stevens, I don’t often read many thrillers, but I picked up a previous novel of yours a couple years back. In fact, I think I may have reviewed it here on DA! (Yup, I did.) Although the details of the book have long since become fuzzy, I do ... more >
Film ReviewsAction/Adventure / France / Friday Film Review / mystery / thriller4 Comments
Les Rivieres Pourpres (The Crimson Rivers) 2000 Genre: Action/Thriller/Mystery Grade: B Remember in my review of “Brotherhood of the Wolf” when I said that by the end of the film, the plot has gone to hell in a hand basket? Well, here we go again. But this time, at least ... more >
B+ Reviewslaw-enforcement / romantic-suspense / technology / thriller21 Comments
Dear Authors: (PJ Tracy is a mother and daughter writing team). As you state in the frontpiece, “South African elephants produce faster” than you two but I never tired of waiting for the next installment of the Monkeewrench team. (Of course I had to google South African elephants to really ... more >