Hazel Riley and Maxine Mead meet each other during WW2 when they are performing in Europe for the troops. Later on and back in the United States, the Chelsea Hotel plays a central role as Hazel tries her hand at being a screenwriter and Maxine strives to become a Read more...
Between Fargo, Georgia and the Okefenokee Swamp runs State Road 117 alongside the Suwannee River. If you drive the road from east to west will you cross six bridges, however, if you instead drive from west to east you might find seven bridges. You just pray to God that Read more...
Claude Ballard was once a French pioneer when it comes to silent films. He started off working for the Lumiere brothers before he moved on to make his own short movies but his last movie The Electric Hotel bankrupted and ended his career. Now he's living at the Read more...
A detour will change Jack Reacher's life. He's on his way to California from Maine, but he doesn't come far. On a road does he see a sign to a place where he has never been, but that he has heard of. It's the town Read more...
Brutal deaths. Competition. Rivalry. Lots of unpleasant rich people. Of, course I speaking about a boarding school. Let\'s face it kids can be mean and nasty and stories about boarding schools make excellent crime novels (or movie and TV episodes...). And DYING TRUTH is definitely a chilling book Read more...
DEADLY SECRETS is book six in the Detective Erika Foster series and I have enjoyed every single book so far in the series. The great thing about the book is that you can read them separately without having read any Read more...
Walt Longmire is finally back to Absaroka County, Wyoming, after being away in Mexico settling old scores. When a shepherd is found dead is it thought first to be suicide. Then, Longmire discovers that the dead man has a connection to a powerful and violent family of Basque ranchers Read more...
As a big fan of the Lincoln Rhyme series by Jefferey Deaver was I curious to see how THE NEVER GAME, the first book in Deaver's new series, would Read more...
Ex-marine Jess Winslow was discharged and returned home only to bury her no good husband who drowned in what the police say was an accident. Suffering from severe PTSD is her dog, Lucy, the only thing that really makes each day worthwhile. That's until the fateful day Read more...
Each year, paparazzi and movie stars travel to Cannes in droves for the celebrated film festival. Among the movie stars is Grace Kelly, who will soon become the wife of Prince Rainer of Monaco. Grace Kelly, however, just wants to be left alone and it's when she's Read more...
BETHLEHEM is the story of Joanna - a young woman that, together with her husband Frank and children, moves back in the ancestral home because it will be closer to Franks's work. Frank's father has just died, he's has taken on much more responsibility, and he's Read more...
Two New York reporters are in Tibbehah Country, Mississippi investigating a cold case. Twenty years ago a young man, Brandon Taylor, killed himself in the Big Woods. At least that is the official explanation. What really happened is hard to know, since there were no witnesses and all the Read more...
Website columnist Robin Diamond is shocked when crime podcast producer Quentin Garrison contacts her and implies that Robin's mother was involved in a couple of murders back in the 70s. Robin is quite sure that this is impossible, but she can't help wondering why she knows so Read more...
Mike Bowditch cuts his vacation short when the wife of Billy Cronk calls and tells him Billy needs to see him. Billy has a favor to ask Mike, a favor that Mike just can't do for him. However, shortly after this a female guard attacked and Billy saves Read more...
Two secret service men, Walter George and Harry Swayne are tasked with trying to find out the truth about the assassin attempt of President William McKinley. The shooter, anarchist Leon Czolgosz words after the deed is "I done my duty". But could it all be a conspiracy? That anarchism Read more...
Lily Bushwold never thought that one day she would follow a man she hardly knew into the jungle, to the village he was born. But love can change a lot in a person's life. Lily grew up in group homes and when she got a teaching job in Read more...
An old woman is out picking walnuts with her two grandchildren when she hears a sound from inside the abandoned farmhouse where they are. No one lived on the farm for a long time so no one should be inside the house. A little time later is the woman Read more...
FBI Agent Nell Flynn has returned home for the first time in many years. The reason is a very somber one: her father Homicide Detective Martin Flynn has died in a motorcycle accident. Now she's there to spread his ashes and see what to do with what her Read more...
As a big fan of the Lincoln Rhyme series by Jefferey Deaver was I curious to see how THE NEVER GAME, the first book in Deaver's new series, would Read more...
PI Roxane Weary gets a call in the middle of the night from her brother Andrew. He's worried about a visitor that showed up in the evening at his place clearly upset. All she wanted was to use his phone and then she left. He then calls Roxane Read more...
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