by L Ruby Hannigan | May 15, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Ian Rutledge, still suffering shell shock from the Great War and still hearing inner voices from a dead soldier of that war, is barely able to hold his life together. He just gave his sister, Frances, away at her wedding and can’t sleep. He decides to get into...
by Megan Stevens | May 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Young Adult
Simon Mason’s sequel to the Running Girl, Kid Alone, features Garvie Smith, a high school student who has a high I.Q. and photographic memory, but is easily uninterested, bored, and lazy when it comes to school. In the sequel, Garvie is caught up in another mystery, a...
by L Ruby Hannigan | May 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Annie and Will Gordon are Americans living in the mysterious and beautiful city of Budapest trying to seek their fortune. Annie has sought to live here to escape the thoughts that haunt her. Will simply believes he can change the lives of the citizens in Budapest by...
by Galina Roizman | May 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Sponsored
“We all do things we regret. Sometimes we’re part of something that we just can’t control. It’s our reactions to those situations that define our future.” The main protagonist of the story, Avery Handle, is a worldwide known neurosurgeon specializing in brain cancer....
by Howard Leighton | Apr 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Raymond Ambler is a librarian at the 42nd Street Library in New York City. He is curating the soon to be completed exhibit “A Century-and-a-Half of Murder and Mystery in New York City.” His friend, Mike Cosgrove, a NYPD homicide detective introduces him to a former...
by Howard Leighton | Apr 18, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Six months after the disappearance of their son Billy in the middle of the night, parents Claire, Mark, and older son Jake Wilkinson are faced with another televised public appeal for information about Billy. Claire believes Billy has run away and is hiding because of...