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You Will Know Me

December 19, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Devon is a young gymnast with incredible talent. Her family – and her gym – believe that she could make it to the Olympics and all of them do what they can to make sure she’s able to compete at the highest. But after tragedy strikes their small community, the lines between right and wrong are no longer so clear – and Devon’s mother Katie has to figure out if she ever really knew her daughter at […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crime, Family, Fiction, Gymnastics, Literature, Megan Abbott, Mystery, Reviews, You Will Know Me

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Crimson Shore (Pendergast #15)

October 17, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Intrigued by the prospect of a low-key case (and the promise of a very rare bottle of wine as payment), Pendergast and Constance head to the Massachusetts coast. What they uncover there, however, is a dark scene from the town’s history – and an even darker scene playing out in the present… The Review: One of my favorite things about the Pendergast series was, especially in the early going, the willingness to tightrope along the line of the […]

Categories: Fiction, Mystery • Tags: A Visit to October Country, A. X. L. Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Constance Greene, Crime, Crimson Shore, Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Fiction, Horror, Lincoln Child, Mystery, review, Reviews, Thriller

End of Watch

June 20, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Brady Hartsfield was put into a coma at the end of Mr. Mercedes. In the years since, he has come out of it but remains nearly vegetative – or so it would appear. But Brady has his old nemesis, Bill Hodges, on the brain and that brain has achieved some decidedly psychic capabilities. When otherwise healthy individuals begin committing suicide, Hodges is drawn into the case – a race against time not only to save those he loves, but […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery • Tags: Bill Hodges, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crime, End of Watch, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Reviews, Stephen King, Thriller

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Shantytown

May 16, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: An immensely strong young man begins to help dwellers of an infamous shantytown in Buenos Aires with their carts and collections. But a crooked policeman believes it has something to do with the local drug cartel, he begins to follow the young man’s sister and her friend – all of this leading to a massive showdown into the shantytown known as the Carousel… The Review: In many ways, this was the most straightforward Aira I’ve yet read. There is […]

Categories: Crime, Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Buenos Aires, César Aira, Chris Andrews, Crime, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Shantytown, Translation

The Cormorant (Miriam Black #3)

March 16, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Miriam Black is changing. Having discovered that a life saved needs a life taken, she has been killing those who would kill the people she touches. This is all well and good until she ends up in the Florida Keys and touches a businessman who dies with a note pinned to his chest that says “Hi Miriam.” So now she needs to find a killer who knows her – and who knows what she can do… The Review: This one […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Chuck Wendig, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Miriam Black, Mystery, Reviews, The Cormorant, Thriller, Urban Fantasy

The Whites

March 7, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Twenty years ago, a group of cops known as the Wild Geese were an aggressive anti-crime unit. Today, only one of them – Billy Graves – is still on the force, working the literal graveyard shift. When an old perp who got away (known, colloquially, as a White) from the Geese is found dead at Penn Station during his shift, Billy is drawn into a case that he doesn’t want and that might forever change not just his […]

Categories: Crime, Fiction • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crime, Fiction, Harry Brandt, New York City, NYPD, Reviews, Richard Price, The Tournament of Books 2016, The Whites

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The Redeemer (Harry Hole #6)

January 4, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Harry Hole has survived the events of the Oslo trilogy but the Oslo police force doesn’t look too kindly on him for killing one of their own. But when, just before Christmas, a Salvation Army worker is shot in the middle of a busy street, it’s Hole who gets the case – but is he ready to take on another fight just yet? The Review: I’ve written, several times now, about how ridiculous it is that Jo Nesbø’s terrific Harry […]

Categories: Crime, Fiction • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crime, Fiction, Harry Hole, Holidays, Jo Nesbø, Norway, Oslo, Reviews, The Redeemer, Thriller

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3)

November 27, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Things have been going well, on the whole, for Cormoran Strike and his PI business. But when Robin Ellacott, his intrepid partner/secretary, receives a woman’s severed leg in the mail, he’s plunged into a case that won’t pay and might not even pay off – and the villain has it out, not just for Cormoran but for Robin too… The Review: Robert Galbraith’s alter-ego recently gave an interview in which she stated that Galbraith is her private playground – […]

Categories: Crime, Fiction • Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Career of Evil, Cormoran Strike, Crime, Fiction, J.K. Rowling, London, Music, Mystery, review, Reviews, Robert Galbraith, Robin Ellacott

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Blackbirds (Miriam Black #1)

September 11, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Miriam Black knows how you’re going to die. All it takes is a single touch, skin-to-skin, and she gets a vision of your death. Which is all well and good – she gets by, stealing and vagabonding – until she meets a nice guy who dies with her name on his lips. Suddenly, she’s in a race to find out if her talent is fate or if fate will bend to her talent… The Review: Chuck Wendig’s Miriam […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Blackbirds, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Chuck Wendig, Crime, Fiction, Miriam Black, Reviews, Supernatural, Thriller

Raging Biblio-holism

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Tag: Crime

You Will Know Me

Crimson Shore (Pendergast #15)

End of Watch

Shantytown

The Cormorant (Miriam Black #3)

The Whites

The Redeemer (Harry Hole #6)

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3)

Blackbirds (Miriam Black #1)