Preston and Child’s novel Old Bones sends the reader delving into the past in search of the infamous Donner Expedition’s Lost Camp. When historian Clive Benton comes in possession of a rare journal he approaches Nora Kelly. He has the perfect pitch for Nora, and the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology. The journal can help […]
***TRIGGER WARNING: adult/minor sexual relationship, sexual/physical/etc abuse, addiction, mention of suicide The Electric Heir is the finale in Victoria Lee’s Feverwake duology. Several months have passed since Dara and Noam parted ways. They’ve both changed, and now they’re ostensibly mortal enemies, fighting on different sides. As Lehrer’s conquest plans ramp up, Noam and Dara must […]
The Lies We Tell is the first full novel in Debra Webb’s Undertaker’s Daughter series. Rowan DuPont has returned home to her childhood home of Winchester, Tennessee. Trained as a forensic psychologist, Rowan grew up in a family-owned funeral home. After her father’s traumatic passing at the hands of a serial killer, she’s taken over […]
The Undertaker’s Daughter by Debra Webb is a novella setting up the Undertaker’s Daughter series, and introduces Rowan DuPont, a forensic psychologist working with Nashville police to catch a killer who’s shaping up to be of the serial variety. Even creepier, each victim thus far is almost the spitting image of Rowan. Could she be […]
The Fever King is first in Victoria Lee’s Feverwake duology. I got this book as part of the Kindle Firsts program, and am really glad it’s the book I chose! It was a timely read too, given the themes of contagion, and immigration. This is an alternate timeline of our world, where a pandemic of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wheeler’s The Killing Fog kicks off his new Grave Kingdom series, introducing us to Bingmei, the orphaned child of warrior parents. Now she belongs to Kunmia’s mercenary group. When their normal employer asks Kunmia’s ensign to partner with another to locate the mythcal city of Fusang, it sparks an unprecedented chain of events. Ancient, restless […]
Loki by Mohammed Ghassan Farija puts a new spin on the legends and myths of the Norse pantheon. Myth is a culture’s way of encoding important events, among other things. And, as Tolkien notes, sometimes history becomes myth under the weight of time. This story, centred on one of the Norse pantheon’s rather more misunderstood […]