The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has nothing on Lars Kepler’s The Sandman. This has to be the darkest book I have ever read. The first few pages are a mixture of Silence of the Lambs and In Cold Blood. And it never stops! Chapter One begins with a young man stumbling around a railroad … Continue reading
Yes, Then She was Gone is another Paula Hawkins, A. J. Finn, Liane Moriarty, and Gillian Flynn novel with the clueless wife/mother/girlfriend. But at least this one is trying. Her persistence is commendable but also a bit annoying. You want to scream “Just ask!!!” But, of course, that would make for a much shorter book. … Continue reading
Sometimes I Lie is my newest favorite of the year. There are so many twists and turns in this novel that my head was left spinning. This is one of those books that when you finish you wonder if you got it right because everything is (I’m sure) carefully planned to make the reader work … Continue reading
I feel like all of the blogs that I have written this year are exactly alike! This new genre of wife/mother/girlfriend being terrorized by husband/child/neighbor/co-worker is starting to get a little old. But…Best Friends Forever is different. Just looking at the title gives you the first clue – this one is about the best friend. … Continue reading
(Good)Creepy, (good)creepy, (good)creepy. Take the movie “Stand by Me” throw in “It” and you can kind of get an idea of what this novel is going to read like. The Chalk Man never loses the (good) creepiness element while making a lot of the violence (and oh, there is violence) appear off site. It is … Continue reading
This novel is getting a lot of hype and is very popular so I am going to try real hard not to spoil anything. The Woman in the Window is now part of the thriller genre of: Woman sees/hears/overhears/feels/smells something Woman goes to her boss/the police/the F.B.I./her significant other but no one believes her Woman … Continue reading
To anyone that follows this blog, you know that Bentley Little is my absolute favorite horror author. And once again, he does not disappoint. The Handyman is simply (?) a story about neighbors. And what we know about them and what we observe and our gut feelings. What do experts say about intuition and gut … Continue reading
