If you laughed at that description, you should definitely pick up Starter Villain by John Scalzi. He’s kind of hit or miss for me, but this was a lot of fun. Charlie Fitzer is in a bad place. A former business reporter for the Chicago Tribune who found himself out of a job when the newspaper industry tanked, Charlie is… Read more
You know I love my detectives, and this series is going to give me three new detectives to devote myself to: Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple, and Auguste Poe. Now, what are the chances that three descendants of the most famous detectives of all time are opening their own detective agency in New York City? Well, since Miss Marple was a… Read more
The thing about reading on a Kindle is that you always know precisely where you are. That’s how I know that it took 83% of the book before the author GOT TO THE POINT. By then, I was pretty irritated. To be fair, the last 20% of the book is very engaging, but the build-up, the first 80%, was a… Read more
According to the Acknowledgements, author Elizabeth Hand was approached by Shirley Jackson’s estate and asked to write a novel that revisited Hill House. After reading A Haunting on the Hill, I have the urge to go back and re-read the source material. It’s been years since I read the original, but I’m sure the local library has a copy. In… Read more