Fairmont High, San Fernando Valley, California, is now the
site of the worst high school shooting in history: 33 dead,
84 wounded; many of the 3000 students were in the gym
attending a cheerleading demonstration. The perpetrators
seem to have copied exactly what happened in Columbine,
down to the suspects Read more...
THE COWBOY AND THE VAMPIRE: ROUGH TRAILS AND SHALLOW GRAVES
is the third instalment in the series, so be forewarned:
this review could contain spoilers for those who haven't
read the two previous books. Tucker, Lizzie and Rex are on
their way back home to LonePine, Wyoming, along with Read more...
After 3 years together, Lottie Graveney is expecting her
boyfriend Richard to propose; she is sure her intuition is
spot-on, they do after all share a special connection. And
she makes a fool of herself in public, when he does not.
Lottie has the unfortunate habit of overreacting when Read more...
An empty train crashes into the side of HM Prison
Bridewell: five prisoners escape, all murderers; only four
are known. The train was tampered with and there is no
record of its departure.
A year before, Jack the Ripper had slipped away from the
arms of the law; since then Read more...
Ellie Kotsolis has reached the ripe old age of 21 and has
never been ... Sex should have happened, with her first and
only boyfriend at seventeen, but because of personal
grooming, it turned out to be a complete and utter disaster.
She has been trying ever since to rid herself Read more...
During a blizzard, at three in the morning, Private
Investigator Eli Paxton gets a surprising phone call from
his friend, Lieutenant Jim Simmons from the Cincinnati
Police Department. There's been a murder and Eli is asked to
go to the scene of the crime, but it's not for Read more...
Meet Allegra "Ryder" Falcon: she's tough, she's fit, she's
sexy, and she dresses exclusively in black. She's an
investigator for Maltese Security, where her big brother
Tony is CEO. She's bored because her cases consist mostly of
jealous husbands and cheating wives. She's suffered Read more...
The INVISIBLE CITY is Borough Park, New York, a large
community of Hasidic Jews, where on a Friday morning, a
young woman is found in a scrap yard, murdered, naked, her
head shaved. Rebekah Roberts, a young journalist was
already near the crime scene, so her newspaper tells her to Read more...
First of all, I would like to make a confession: although I
had heard of Doctor Who, I had never seen nor read anything
on this legendary British character, so why not try this
short novella written by no less than Cecelia Ahern.
Here
we have the tenth Doctor Who Read more...
LOVE AND LET SPY is the third book in Shana Galen's
delightful LORD AND LADY SPY series. Who would
suspect an English Rose such as Miss
Jane Bonde of being a spy? Jane is the last agent who is in
a position to capture the elusive Fonc Read more...
THE DAUGHTERS OF MARS is a sweeping tale of war, friendship,
and the sometimes tremulous bonds of sisterhood during the
Great War. Sally and Naomi Durance are sisters from a dairy
farm in the Australian bush, who both became nurses. While
Naomi went on to work in a large hospital Read more...
ENSLAVED BY THE OTHERS is the latest instalment of the
H&W Investigation series, and it starts off with a
bang. P.I. Shiarra Waynest, a human, is being held captive
by Max Carlyle, a master vampire, who is bent on breaking
her once and for all. She Read more...
In the second instalment of this series, Lizzie and Tucker,
along with their faithful dog Rex, are on their way back to
LonePine, Wyoming, population.
Lizzie is now Vampire Queen
and 3 months pregnant. She is now very rich, since she
inherited from her father, but she and Tucker live Read more...
The Martins and the Sweets have been enemies since before
the Civil War, when family members from both sides eloped,
which caused a feud that still resonates in the little town
of Salvation. The Martins are upright citizens, have always
been respected, whereas it's been an entirely different
thing Read more...
In Northen Sweden, police dog handler and bear-hunter
extraordinaire Krister Eriksson is asked to search for and
put down a bear that attacked and ate a villager's dog;
however upon further investigation, more than human remains
are found in the bear's stomach. A woman, Sol-Britt
Uusitalo Read more...
This the fifteenth book in Kerrelyn Sparks' very successful
Love
at Stake series, and nothing has gotten stale, far from
it.
A few books ago, Ms. Sparks introduced the dastardly Master
Han and his super soldiers, which gave the series lungfuls
of fresh air. Readers unfamiliar with the Read more...
Jacobs' Fine Furnishings is Dell Jacobs' lifework. His
daughter Keisha got an offer for her dream job as an
interior decorator, when Dell has a stroke. Dell's son,
Tyrell, who was supposed to manage the business, leaves
unexpectedly for what he perceives as a better opportunity,
and reliable, dependable Read more...
Rosalie Hughes, has spent the last ten years at the Harwich
School for Young Ladies. Rosalie was sent there by her
mother and then quickly forgotten, while her mother
gallivanted around the Continent with younger men.
The
school's headmistress has no choice to return Rosalie to
her stepbrother, Declan Read more...
Camille Trent, better known as Green because of her hair
colour, is a computer whiz and a hacker; she works at
Blaine Technologies, an ultraconservative company, where
rules abound. There's even a dress code; everyone dresses
mostly in black and white. To put it mildly, Camille
stands out in Read more...
London. Women are being sexually assaulted. Out of half a
dozen who have lodged complaints, all have refused to
further pursue the matter, and two are dead. Prosecutor
Helen West is on the case. Helen is soon to be married to
her long-time boyfriend, Senior Police Officer Bailey, when Read more...