It’s rare when a house feels like one of the characters in a novel, but that’s exactly the case with the house at One Fulgate Street in JP Delaney’s thriller The Girl Before. Delaney switches back and forth between Emma, the girl before, and Jane, who is in the process of moving into the house … Continue reading
Would someone out there please read this book and let me know: Ghost story? “Gaslight” scenario? Just plain crazy? “Theme Music” is about Dixie Wheeler, who, at 18 months old, is the sole survivor of her family’s mass murder which, by the way, was done by her father, William, before he took his own life. … Continue reading
Sophisticated L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware doesn’t think too much about a child custody case between two sisters that he works on. Connie Sykes, a physician, is trying to gain custody of Rambla, her sister Ree’s daughter. Unsuccessful in her bid, Connie shows up at Alex’s office and tells him that she is not going to … Continue reading
Talk about the unexpected! The Mother-in-Law is one of those novels that with every chapter, you never know what is about to happen. Told in dual narratives between mother-in-law Diana and her daughter-in-law Lucy, as well as dual timelines, you can never tell what the next page will bring. The novel starts off with a … Continue reading
At the beginning of John Sandford’s Extreme Prey, main character Lucas Davenport has left the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and is hanging out at his cabin in Wisconsin. I’m not sure if we are supposed to consider Davenport retired or if he is just considering retirement now that he’s a free agent, but, too … Continue reading
“Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.” Shana Alexander, American journalist That about sums up the storyline from Kara Lesley’s debut, The Rumor: a Novel. If you’ve ever stood outside of a schoolyard waiting for a child, you know what goes on there. It is the information highway. It is … Continue reading
There are books that you read and love and you know will appeal to most people, so they are easy to recommend. Then there are books that you read and love but they are pretty much your own private taste so you recommend them cautiously. Then there are those books that you read and hate … Continue reading
