Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Cold Cold Sea by Linda Huber. Though reliably disturbing, stories about missing children never fail to attract my attention. When I had the opportunity to join the blog tour for this one, I couldn't say anything but YES! The Cold Cold Sea is told in the third person but straightaway events and twists brought the phrase "unreliable narrator" to mind. I ...
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Review: The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
There are so many things I loved about The Naturalist! First, there's our main man, Professor Theo Cray. He's a computational biologist. So basically he's a little nerdy, very smart, and, because he's now been drawn in to a murder investigation, a bit of a rogue Magnum, P.I. I'm not one for bookish crushes but if I were, he'd be a candidate. Next, there's the plot. What starts out as one dead ...
Review: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
If you follow me on Goodreads, you may have seen my cry for help. I considered DNF'ing The Child Finder at about the half way point. I had already put it down and picked it again once. Still, I struggled. Then something happened. I'm not sure what it was. Perhaps I had gotten used to the style of writing. Perhaps the pace quickened. Who knows? Whatever it was, I'm glad for it. It would have been a ...
Review of “Inherit the Bones” by Emily Littlejohn
"...I've always thought there are currents running through our world and our lives, threads if you will, that touch and connect all things. Events, years after they've happened, leave faint fingerprints that linger and change the surface of places over time." A murdered clown. An unknown murder weapon. A surprise ID. A pregnant lead investigator. Her partner with questionable professional ethics. ...
