Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2526 KP) rated Scoop to Kill in Books
Jul 6, 2019
While the mystery starts strongly with the discovery of Bryan’s body just a few pages in, the book still seems to wander a bit. We are gathering clues and information on the suspects, but it isn’t until the second half that it feels like Tally is truly investigating and we are beginning to find clues and disregard the red herrings. Once this happens, the book gets very good, and I was fully hooked. Tally and her immediate circle are a fun group, and I enjoyed spending time with them. I also enjoyed the cameos by some of the supporting cast from the first book. The suspects were strong enough to help us tell them apart, but they could have spent a little more time on the page to be fully developed. I had forgotten that there is a love triangle in this series, although it looks like that is coming to a head, which I appreciated. There is more language scattered throughout this book than is typical for a cozy, but this is still a light, fun cozy sure to keep you cool on a warm summer day. You might want to make sure you have some ice cream on hand first, however, to satisfy any cravings.
Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists
Book
The latest edition of this highly successful volume presents a unique understanding of the role of...
Jonny: My Autobiography
Book
Jonny Wilkinson's career has crossed three decades and four World Cups. He has accumulated...
Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice
Book
Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and...
The Tapping Solution for Teenage Girls: How to Stop Freaking Out and Keep Being Awesome
Christine Wheeler and Nick Ortner
Book
Dealing with grades, bullying, friendships, parents, crushes ...it's enough to make any teenage girl...
Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper #2)
7.0
Rate It
Book
It seems like only yesterday that Charlie Asher took on a very dirty job--collecting souls and...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Body Reader ( Detective Jude Fontaine 1) in Books
Oct 29, 2023
kindle
The Body Reader ( Detective Jude Fontaine 1)
By Anne Frasier
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.
After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.
Holy cow I bloody really enjoyed this book! It was a non stop stomach clenching read. I mean to go through everything she did then to have to deal with dead 16 year old girls was just harsh! The ending was so so satisfying too I actually wanted to cheer for Jude twice! Well worth a read. I’m really enjoying this authors work at the minute.
Bookapotamus (289 KP) rated The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle in Books
May 29, 2018
There is such creativity to this mystery - reminiscent of the best Agatha Christie novels, the book is set at Blackheath, a sprawling ancient estate, which has seen better days. But back in it's glory, almost two decades ago, there was a murder of a little boy. Now, coming up on the 20th anniversary, a whole slew of characters is gathered at the crumbling estate by the matriarch of the family, and yet another murder occurs.
Evelyn Hardcastle is the sister of that little boy, and she will die every single day until Adrian Bishop can solve the murder. He's stuck in an 8-day loop, and needs to figure out the killer and break the cycle. Oh and did I mention that every time her falls asleep, or goes unconscious, he wakes up in the body (and mind!) of a different guest?!
I loved how this all played out - Imagine waking up in an obese body that stinks and can't even get out of a bathtub without assistance! And then in that of a constable with a sharp clever mind and gorgeous fiancé, and then a drug dealer! What a ride this was! I dove right into it not knowing what to expect and breezed through the first 1/3 of it. By 2/3 in I started getting a little bit mixed up. The timeline jumps across and back the span of 8 days and you never know where in the past or future you will end up - or in whose (of 8 guests) mind/body. But by the last 1/3 - I was ravenously flipping pages to find out who killed Evelyn and the end does NOT disappoint! Wow! Again - wow!
What really cool and clever idea. I've never read anything like this and it was seriously one of the most inventive and creative murder mysteries I've ever read.
The Female Voice
Book
The Female Voice" follows the passage of the voice from fetus to new born, from infancy to childhood...
The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment
Book
This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and...