Category Archives: Mystery/Suspense

Review: Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Jenn

Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books; Reprint edition (December 24, 2013) ISBN-10: 1250039770 Source: Publisher Eleven years ago, then twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius was convicted of killing two seventeen-year-old girls based on circumstantial evidence alone and sentenced to ten years in … Continue reading →

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Frightful Friday: Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Jenn

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week.  This week’s featured title is Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough: Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books (January 14, 2014) … Continue reading →

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Review: The Kept by James Scott

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062236733 Source: Publisher Set in 1867 at an isolated farm in upstate New York, Elspeth Howell, a midwife, returns home to find her husband and four of her children brutally murdered.  … Continue reading →

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Review: Starter House by Sonja Condit

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062283057 Source:  Publisher When Lacey and Eric, a young expectant couple, began their home-shopping journey, Lacey knew exactly what she wanted in a house.  Growing up with unstable living arrangements and a … Continue reading →

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Review: Rustication by Charles Palliser

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 4, 2013) ISBN-10: 0393088723 Source: Publisher It is the winter 1863. Seventeen year old Richard Shenstone has been suspended from Cambridge amid a cloud of suspicion. He seeks temporary solace in a crumbling old mansion … Continue reading →

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Cozy Mystery Week: Witch Way To Murder by Shirley Damsgaard

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Jenn

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Avon; English Language edition (August 30, 2005) ISBN-10: 0060793481 Source: Library Ophelia Jensen is a small-town librarian who refuses to acknowledge her psychic powers.  She moved to this small town after an incident from her past left her … Continue reading →

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Cozy Mystery Week:How to Murder a Millionaire: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery by Nancy Martin

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Jenn

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Signet (October 1, 2002) ISBN-10: 0451207246 Source: Personal copy When Nora Blackbird’s parents flee the country, evading tax-collectors, they leave Nora and her sisters with mounds of debt. Their property is divided among the three Blackbird sisters: Emma … Continue reading →

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Audiobook Review: Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Jenn

Age Range: 10 and up Publisher: HarperCollins; Unabridged edition (April 10, 2007) ISBN-10: 0061341045 Source: Personal copy Twelve-year-old Stephanie is confused when, after her eccentric uncle passes away, she is on the list to attend the reading of the will. … Continue reading →

Posted in Audiobook, Harper Collins Publishers, Kid-Lit/Middle Grade, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Science Fiction, YA | 1 Comment

#Mx3 Review: Delia’s Shadow by Jaime Lee Moyer

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (September 17, 2013) ISBN-10: 0765331829 Source: Personal Copy Delia Martin is a wealthy young woman living in early 20th century San Francisco.  She holds a unique gift; she can see, and … Continue reading →

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Review: Cartwheel by Jennifer Dubois

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Random House (September 24, 2013) ISBN-10: 0812995864 Source: Publisher Lily Hayes opts to spend a semester abroad in Buenos Aires and is instantly enamored by the culture around her. She rooms with another young woman from the United States, Katy, but … Continue reading →

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