A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
by Charlaine Harris
If you’ve never read a Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire book, I warn you not to read any further but to pick up the first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, and begin there.
Sookie’s in for another wild ride. The Weres are going public, her soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law is found crucified behind Sookie’s [...]
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Dead and Gone
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Hmm, how to go about summarizing this book…Arthur Dent thought his day was going to be bad when he woke up to bulldozers about to down his house. What his friend Ford Prefect knows is that his about-to-be-demolished house is the least of Arthur’s worries. Ford may mostly look human but he’s not. [...]
Silent on the Moor
by Deanna Raybourn
If you have not yet read Silent in the Grave and Silent in the Sanctuary you might want to skip this review until you do.
Lady Julia is at it again. This time she is accompanying her sister Portia uninvited on a visit to Grimsgrave, the property that is now owned by Brisbane. When [...]
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
Vida Winter is a storyteller in every sense of the word. Renowned for her fictitious life stories as she is for her novels, Ms. Winter has become the puzzle every journalist hopes to piece together. No one knows where Ms. Winter came from, there are no records to be found to give any [...]
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
My friends and I have begun a book club, so now I have a specific reason to read adult titles. It’s kind of nice. While I love teen lit, I feel like that is all I should be reading since there are so many good titles that I need to stay on [...]
Silent in the Sanctuary
A Lady Julia Grey Mystery (Book 2)
by Deanna Raybourn
Lady Julia Grey is back. She has spent six wonderful, relaxing months in Italy with her brothers Plum and Lysander, Lysander’s new wife Violante, and their friend Alessandro, but her father has summoned the lot of them home for Christmas. While Julia is sad to leave Italy [...]
Silent in the Grave
by Deanna Raybourn
When Lady Julia Grey’s husband, Sir Edward Grey, dies it is not surprising. He is young but has always been in poor health due to a hereditary heart condition. What is surprising is that an unknown man, one Nicholas Brisbane, a private investigator, informs Julia that he does not believe that her husband [...]
The Darkangel
by Meredith Ann Pierce
While Aeriel and her mistress, Eoduin, are picking flowers for a wedding high atop a mountain peak, Eoduin is captured by a vampyre — a pale, gorgeous, black-winged creature. When Aeriel returns without Eoduin, Eoduin’s mother blames Aeriel for her daughter’s demise and Aeriel is set to be sold at the [...]
Deep Dish
by Mary Kay Andrews
Gina Foxton has it all–a top-rated regional cooking show call Fresh Start; a handsome, driven boyfriend; and a beautiful home that’s all her own–or so she thinks. Suddenly her show is cancelled when the major sponsor pulls support. Turns out Gina’s loving boyfriend Scott, who is also the show’s producer, has been [...]
The Crazy School
by Cornelia Read
Madeline Dare is a teacher at the Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for troubled teens. The best part of her job is the students. While she may not like all of them, she truly cares for their well-being in a way that few adults in their lives have. The worst part of her [...]
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