Plain fear : forsaken

From Rosemarie Jerome Author:  Leanna Ellis Plain fear : forsaken  Vampires and the Amish, sounds bizarre and I was skeptical at first but the story slowly lured me in until I was hooked.  It begins with a young man running for his life and evolves into a young Amish woman haunted by her dead boyfriend and [...]

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A Little Gentle Sleuthing

From Elaine Pasquali  A Little Gentle Sleuthing Author:  Betty Rowlands  This was Rowlands first crime novel and it was very engaging.  The lead character, Melissa Craig, herself a  crime novel writer, investigates and solves a local crime. Enough character development to enrich the story without detracting from the plot.

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White Heat

From Rosemarie Jerome author: McGrath, M. J. White Heat  An accident, a disappearance and a suicide.  Inuit hunter/guide Edie Kiglatuk knows they are all murders but she must prove it.  What is the motive?  Who is the killer?  Can one of their own be part of a conspiracy?  Edie must battle the brutal Arctic and [...]

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The Priest’s Graveyard

From Grace Kim-Lu author: Dekker,Ted The Priest’s Graveyard From the first pages, this book grabs you in. As the book opens, you are dropped into a life and death scene and left wandering when, where and why how it all started.  As the title implies, the priest has killed in the past and is currently [...]

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The Demon in Me

From Andrea Kalinowski author: Rowen, Michelle The Demon in Me Michelle Rowen has started a new series featuring Eden Riley and Darrak, a demon. Darrak was cursed by a witch and now must possess human bodies to maintain a presence. The series begins with The Demon in me followed by Something wicked. Eden Riley is a [...]

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Holy Thief

From Eileen Effrat author: Ryan, William Holy Thief It is 1936 Moscow and Stalin is now firmly in control. The political purges and Reign of Terror have just begun.  Captain Alexei Korolev, an honest ,resourceful, and hard working criminal investigator, is assigned to investigate the grisly murder of a young woman. The situation turns decidedly [...]

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Deep Breath

From Bassuk, Jody author: Kent, Alison Deep Breath Suspenseful story. I enjoyed reading this story about Georgia who has a limited time to save her brother who’s being held hostage and find out the truth behind the crime her father spent the last thirteen years of his life imprisoned for.  I like the hero, Harry [...]

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Child 44

From Eileen Effrat author: Smith, Tom Rob Child 44 Set in Stalin’s Russia (1953), Leo Demidov, a  decorated World  War II hero, is now a rising star in Russia’s State Security Force.  He routinely interrogates thousands of his countrymen for “crimes against the state”- a sentence of execution or banishment to the gulag.  All this [...]

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Two for the Dough

From Elaine Pasquali author: Evanovich, Janet Two for the Dough Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter,is assisted by a cast of “characters”: Lula, a former ho; Ranger, a hunky master bounty hunter; and Joe Morelli, a cop-come-boyfriend.  Stephanie’s family of Mom, Dad, and Grandma Mazur, as zany a grandma as you’ll ever meet, serve as counterpoint [...]

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Burning Wire

From Andrea Kalinowski author: Deaver, Jeffrey Burning Wire I recently finished “Burning wire,” the continuation of the Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs storyline.  In this novel, Lincoln, more than ever, brought to mind Sherlock Holmes and his method of detection.  Something in the way both men can extrapolate reams of information from the most insignificant thing.  The [...]

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