Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant’s Tomb by Rick Riordan continues to follow Apollo and Meg as they work to secure the Oracles. Now at Camp Jupiter, Apollo must prepare to face a new threat, worse than even Caligula. I read this book right on the heels of the previous one, only to realise it wasn’t […]
She stumbled on a bloodied body buried in a snowbank. Will a cold case in Kansas lead her to the killer? Against a canvas of crime and murder, artist and detective Leila Goodfriend investigates two brutal murders that happened a thousand miles—and decades apart. As she unravels the truth about these two violent killings, she […]
Echoes of the Runes by Christina Courtenay is a charming tale of timeless love remanifested. This is a dual time novel, shifted between the past where Ceri has been kidnapped by Haukr’s raiding party and brought back to be ransomed, and the present where Mia and Haakon are excavating property left to Mia by her […]
Books Read and Reviewed in February Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, 5* Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin, 4* All about Allosaurus by Greg Gormley, 4* **The Magic of Mindset by Johanna Wright, 5* Subject A36 by Teri Polen, 3* Bringing Back the Wolves by Jude Isabella/ illustrated by Kim Smith, 4* Martin Luther King […]
The Weighing of the Heart by Paul Tudor Owen was a fascinating look at the psychological ramifications of crime on two young souls brought together in the Big Apple. Nick Braeburn, in need of a place to stay, is directed to the Peacock sisters by their nephew. They have a small room in their sprawling […]
So, I finally got around to reading The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware! The story follows Lo Blacklock, a travel mag writer, as she sets off on a ’boutique’ cruise ship (read large yacht) sailing around the Norwegian fjords. She’s there to do a piece on the ship and it’s amenities. Her first […]
Ross’ The Daemoniac kicks off the Gaslamp Gothic series, and introduces us to Harry and Weston. Harry’s sister, Myrtle, is away on a case and when clients come calling, Harry decides she and Weston will look into it instead. Harry wants to join the Society for Psychical Research and hopes solving this case is a […]
The Electric Heir (Feverwake #2) by Victoria Lee Publisher: Skyscape Release Date: March 17th2020 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBTQ Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer’s image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth […]
Apollo’s trials and tribulations continue in The Burning Maze. He and Meg head to California, accompanied by the satyr Grover. The southern part of the state is withering away thanks to the trapped energy of the sun Titan Helios. Fires rage across the land and drought parches what doesn’t burn. Along the way, they recruit […]
When Mia inherits her beloved grandmother’s summer cottage, Birch Thorpe, in Sweden, she faces a dilemma. Her fiance Charles urges her to sell and buy a swanky London home, but Mia cannot let it go easily. The request to carry out an archaeological dig for more Viking artefacts like the gold ring Mia’s grandmother also […]
