Undertaker Nina Sherwood is full of good advice. For example, never wear lip gloss when you’re scattering ashes. Nina is your average 30-year-old with a steady job, a nice home – and dead bodies in her basement. As an undertaker, she often prefers the company of the dead to the living – they’re obliging, good… Continue reading Five Wakes and a Wedding by Karen Ross
Tag: noir
Humpty Dumpty was Pushed by Marc Blatte
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in February 2009. “Humpty Dumpty was Pushed” was one of my first books posted on my blog and it is a fantastic… Continue reading Humpty Dumpty was Pushed by Marc Blatte
He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory #1) by Derek Raymond
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers. I first posted this review in February 2012. "He Died with His Eyes Open" is a series and is one of the first noir crime books I read, and… Continue reading He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory #1) by Derek Raymond
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Yes, I read the classics, too. A tragic love story where a drifter falls in love with a married woman, they plot to kill her husband, their lust gets in the way of common sense, and it ends in tragedy. A very lurid, short story of 1930's noir that holds the reader to the end.