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I'm a book lover and freelance book professional blogging incognito. I post book reviews and participate in reading challenges and bookish memes. You'll also find a weekly photograph. NB: I did not work on ANY book mentioned on this site.
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Review: The Brain Finds a Leg by Martin Chatterton
Sheldon McGlone lived a pretty ordinary life in Farrago Bay, Australia, even if his dad had died after being attacked humpback whales. Everything was to change the day Sheldon met Theopilus Nero Hercule Sherlock Wimsey Father Brown Marlowe Spade Chri...
Short Review: The Russian Hill Murders by Shirley Tallman
The Russian Hill Murders is the second Sarah Woolson Mystery by Shirley Tallman. The novels take place in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century and touch on a number of topics besides the current murders. For example, Sarah is one of the few f...
Review: Fables 1--Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
I had heard a lot of great things about the Fables series of graphic novels by Bill Willingham. So I bought the first few books and read the first volume, Legends in Exile, for the fall Read-a-thon.This first book in the series includes some backgrou...
Review: To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming
In the predawn cold of a November morning, the Reverend Clare Fergusson is woken up by the Millers Kill, New York, search and rescue team, which is looking for a young woman presumed lost in the woods near her home. Little did Clare know that by the ...
Short Review: The Judas Pair by Jonathan Gash
Do you remember the television series Lovejoy, starring Ian McShane? Did you know that the show was based on a mystery series by Jonathan Gash? The Judas Pair is the first in that series. Antiques dealer Lovejoy hears rumors that an infamous set of d...
Review: Mind Scrambler by Chris Grabenstein
Mind Scrambler is the fifth in the Ceepak mysteries. Although the review contains no spoilers for this novel, I can't promise that there won't be very minor spoilers for the previous books in the series. I reviewed the first four Ceepak mysteries las...
Short Review: Hit Man by Lawrence Block
John Keller is a hit man. He's also a regular kind of guy going through a midlife crisis. It is a bit bizarre to describe a book about murders and a paid assassin as being fun, but that's the word I used when I finished this book in 2005. Keller is a...
Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
I finished Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on August 12. I haven't reviewed it until today because the book is complicated and deals with some very disturbing themes. I was just not sure how to review the book without giving away the entire story. Perhap...
A-Z Wednesday: Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn
Reading at the Beach is hosting this fun meme: Each week she invites you to spotlight a book whose title begins with the featured letter. This week we have the letter D.My D book is Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn. This novel is the first in ...
Review: Death of a Travelling Man by M. C. Beaton
Death of a Travelling Man is the ninth entry in the Hamish Macbeth series. This review assumes you've read the other books, but there are really few spoilers to the series.Hamish Macbeth likes the quiet life and likes his adopted town of Lochdubh. He...
Review: Delectable Mountains by Earlene Fowler
Delectable Mountains is the twelfth in the Benni Harper mystery series. The following review contains no spoilers for this book, but may contain spoilers for the series. For just my opinion, skip to the end.In the weeks before Thanksgiving, there is ...
Review: Rapture in Death by J. D. Robb
Rapture in Death is the fourth book in the In Death series by J. D. Robb. This review assumes you've read the first three books; it contains no spoilers for the novel and some minor spoilers (no surprises) for the earlier books. Skip to the end if yo...
Review: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail is the fifth in the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Series. Depending on where you are in the series, you might want to read my reviews of Club Dead (book 3) and Dead to the World (book 4). This review does not contain spoilers ...
