So many genres, so little time
"Humans are capable of amazing behavior at both ends of the moral spectrum". When a young boy, John Frears met a strange man who gave him a picture of his granddaughter and told John "if you are the one, you'll need it". The one what? It took several years to find out what the man… Continue reading Veteran Avenue by Mark Pepper
"Monsters are made, not born, and the truth is that they can be made anywhere." The Monster has never been present when the women have died, so he has no idea how long it takes. He's done with them by then, so what does it matter? The Worm is incapable of killing for himself, he's… Continue reading You Can Run by Steve Mosby
From the author of the Paper Magician Series comes a tale about dairymaid, Matrona Vitsin, who lives a dull life in a small village that never changes. She is betrothed to Feodor Popov, who is not attentive, nor as demonstrative as she feels a husband-to-be should be, and wants more. In fact, the only person… Continue reading The Fifth Doll by Charlie N. Holmberg
I recently started a book challenge list that asked me to read a book with the word "dog" in the title and to my delight when searching the NetGalley list The Dog Walker's Diary came up first. Daniel Ashe is a literary agent who has never fell in love and is looking for an awesome… Continue reading The Dog Walker’s Diary by Kathryn Donahue
Claire is a young woman with a dream. A dream to go to college and get a job of her very own. Growing up in Chicago with her older brother and her German mother in the 1950's have been hard and she wants more. When she hears her brother Tom will be moving to California,… Continue reading The Other Side of Him by Alice Rene
Sherry Moore, a beautiful, blind psychic, has the extraordinary ability to 'see' the last eighteen seconds of a murder victim's life by touching the corpse. She uses her gift to help others solve mysteries only she can tap into. Serial killer Earl Sykes never got caught for his vicious murders. Instead, it was a deadly… Continue reading 18 Seconds (Sherry Moore #1) by George D. Shuman
Edie Swan is a rebel with a cause. She is determined to clear her father's name in the small town of Redbud, Tennesee where he supposedly committed suicide and resulted in driving her mother mad. Little does she know that her inquiries will unravel the threads that hold the town together. Sheriff Holt Drennen is… Continue reading One Deadly Sin by Annie Solomon
This story has as many twists and turns as Lombard Street in San Francisco. Nick and Amy Dunn were the golden couple; the couple everyone wanted to know, but after losing both of their jobs in New York the marriage started to wane. Nick finds out that his mother dies which prompts them to move… Continue reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gretchen Lowell, the world's most beautiful serial killer, has escaped from prison in Chelsea Cain's unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Sweetheart.With Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the New York… Continue reading Sweetheart (Archie & Gretchen #2) by Chelsea Cain
This book is just as attention-grabbing and action-packed as the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. At the end of the first book, Lisbeth doesn’t want anything more to do with Mikhail, but this time she is in trouble and Mikhail has to prove her innocence for a brutal triple murder. The odds… Continue reading The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2) by Stieg Larsson