‘Once Two Sister’ by Sarah Warburton is a fast-paced book. I read it in two sittings and the author kept me on my toes. The book centers on, of course, two sisters. Zoe and Ava Hallett grew up despite their clinically distant and robotic scientist parents. Nancy and Walter Hallett are so focused on their […]
Book Reviews
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
The story captures you from page one, the characters are under your skin before the first chapter ends, and the storyline promises a well-layered plot. And, yes. Pötzsch delivers. More about the book later. Right now, someone else must be discussed as it is crucial to Pötzsch’s international success: the translator. Lee Chadeayne My readers […]
‘Into the forest and all the way through’ by Cynthia Pelayo
Cynthia Pelayo is is an International Latino Book Award winning author and an Elgin Award nominee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, a Master of Science in Marketing, a Master of Fine Arts in Writing, and is a Psychology Doctoral candidate. You can follow Cynthia on Twitter. Her family brought her work to […]
Act of Revenge by John Bishop, MD
Revenge runs rampant in the third book in the Doc Brady Mystery Series written by John Bishop, MD. The second book in that series, Act of Deception, was reviewed earlier. The Characters Dr. Jim Bob Brady and wife Mary Louise start off the story on the ski slopes of Snowmass Village, Aspen, Colorado. The Doc’s […]
Ma Duncan by Jim Barrett
She was known as Ma Duncan. Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Duncan became the last woman to be executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin, California. I was at San Quentin many years ago. I can still smell it. Everything is eerie there. The silence and the noise, the odors overpowering the disinfectant, the space and the […]
Small Towns by Mitzi Szereto
‘Small Towns” is the next book in the series ‘The Best New True Crime Stories‘ which is of course, the anthology series edited by Mitzi Szereto. You have seen a review of the first book ‘Serial Killers’ here as well. Serial Killers was quite an opening act for a series and that raises the bar for […]
The Handy Candy Man by Cheryl S. Justice and Delilah G. Michael
Alice Louise Lee (Jun. 3, 1953 – Aug. 29, 1960) was just 7 years old when she was murdered. I wrote about her case before, here. In that post, an article is mentioned in which former Oregon State Police trooper Al Wolfe thought that Alice’s killer was an older person. You can find that article […]
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz has its place on the website from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate. Rightfully so, it is a wonderful read. Horowitz wrote a new story, that includes all our favorite characters, follows Holmes in a fast-paced investigation, and it is narrated by Dr. John Watson. The entire story […]