Book review You just know from the title (no ‘in Death) that this story is going to be different! And of course, the only two cities that have any significance for Eve are New York City and Dallas. So, for those who know the series, it’s clear that this book will be pivotal. This is …
Book review Gush, gush, gush, gush, gush, gush, gush!!! GUSH!!!!! So yes, clearly I loved this book. I think the only person I wouldn’t recommend this book to is one of those people who only read meaty tomes that might give regular people a brain embolism while they’re trying to make sense of the …
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Book review The daughter of Henry Livington is missing and when he report to the police, Frank Malloy is assigned to the case. After looking through Grace Livingston’s belongings in her room at home, he finds some letters and advertisements from the paper. Obviously, Ms. Livingston has answered some ads in the ‘Lonely Hearts’ column …
Book review Ave Maria isn’t the person she thought she was – it wasn’t until her beloved mother’s death that Ave finds in a penned letter that the aloof father she knew wasn’t her birth father. She had always felt different and looked different than the townsfolk in Big Stone Gap, a tiny town in …
Book review I’ve been limping through this for months. I think it doesn’t really pair well with a book on genocide and the limited amount of free time on my hands. But when your flight gets delayed five times – thank you Southwest – you get a lot of time to sit and read. I …
Book review Knickerbocker midwife Sarah Brandt and her fiance, Frank Malloy, recently made millionaire and ex-policeman are back. Amid the wedding plans for their upcoming nuptials, Mrs. Brandt’s mother, socialite Mrs Elizabeth Decker arrives to let Sarah know that a friend of hers from childhood, Charles Oakes has died and Mrs Decker has invited her …
Book review I have been consistently amazed by this series and cannot recommend this collection of works enough to those who have been searching for a brilliant series to curl up with, forget the outside world and entrust themselves in following the lives of a distinct album of characters that brings the courts of 14th …
Book review There are few books that endear themselves to me so wholeheartedly that I make a habit of returning to them time and time again. This one will not get the chance to sit idly on my shelf, it will no doubt inevitably suffer a cracked spine between well worn pages. The author Karen, …
Book review Death takes on an apprentice14 August 2012 Well, while I suggested that Equal Rites must have been Pratchett’s make or break book, I did not expect the brilliance of this book. After picking myself off the floor after laughing so much at some of the absolutely off the wall humour, I must say …
Book review Published in 1949, Death Be Not Proud is written from the perspective of a father writing about his son who died before his life could truly begin. The book is a quick read, but it’s poignant and heartbreaking nonetheless. Johnny Gunther, full of life and interested in science, is excited about finishing school …