Archives by Tag 'Mystery'
Mini-Review: The Agency: A Spy in the House April 6, 2015 | Mystery, Reviews, Young Adult
Publisher: Candlewick Press Published: October 26, 2010 Copyright: 2010 Pages: 234 Form: eBook Series: The Agency (1) Author: Site | Facebook | Twitter Buy The Book: B&N | Book Depository | Amazon Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine Read More...
Review: The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie March 19, 2015 | Mystery, Reviews
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Published: January 1992 Copyright: 1961 Pages: 231 Form: Paperback Series: Miss Marple (9) Author: Site | Facebook | Twitter Buy The Book: B&N | Book Depository | Amazon Marina Gregg, the famous film actress, witnesses a murder in her country home, Gossington Hall. Then that unassuming spinster, Miss Marple, who just happens to Read More...
Review: The Road to Paradise Island by Victoria Holt March 2, 2015 | Reviews, Romantic Suspense, Uncategorized
Publisher: Fawcett Crest Published: October 12, 1986 Copyright: 1985 Pages: 473 Form: Paperback Series: Stand Alone Author: Facebook Buy The Book: B&N | Book Depository | Amazon Annalice Mallory, sheltered daughter of a family of mapmakers, is thrown into a world of intrigue and high adventure when she discovers the cryptic diary of her long-dead ancestor. Read More...
Mini-Review: The Shuttered Room by Charlotte A. Sherman February 9, 2015 | Mini Reviews, Mystery
Publisher: Major Books Published: January 1, 1975 Copyright: 1975 Pages: 191 Form: Paperback Series: Stand Alone DEATH WAITS IN DARKNESS Loneliness was nothing new to Angela. Her parents had frequently left her while they went on their globe-circling trips. But now, suddenly, they were dead, and she was left totally and shockingly alone. The invitation Read More...
Mini-Review: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson October 20, 2014 | Mini Reviews, Mystery, Young Adult
Publisher: Speak Published: October 2, 2012 Copyright: 2011 Pages: 372 Form: Paperback Series: Shades of London (1) Author: Site | Facebook | Twitter Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school just as a series of brutal murders mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper killing spree of more Read More...
Mini-Review: Remembered Death by Agatha Christie September 2, 2014 | Mini Reviews, Mystery, Uncategorized
Publisher: Pocket Books Published: November 2, 1984 Copyright: 1943 Pages: 194 Form: Paperback Author: Site | Facebook | Twitter When lively, lovely Rosemary Barton died of cyanide-laced champagne at an elegant London nightclub, the coroner ruled it a suicide. But the anonymous letters put it quite differently–“She was killed”–and suddenly a shocking array of motives Read More...
Review & Giveaway: Dark Territory by J. Gabriel Gates & Charlene Keel July 30, 2012 | Giveaway, Reviews, Supernatural, Young Adult
Publisher: HCI Teen Copyright: 2011 Published: July 1, 2011 Pages: 497 Form: Paperback Series: The Tracks (2) Find the Author: J. Gabriel Gates | Charlene Keel Buy The Book: B&N | Book Depository Star-crossed love, supernatural evil, and martial arts meet at the abandoned tracks in the deceptively quaint village of Middleburg . . . Read More...
My Book Boyfriend: Tiago May 9, 2012 | Meme, My Book Boyfriend
My Book Boyfriend is a weekly meme hosted by Missie of The Unread Reader. It was created to give us all a chance to gush and swoon over those amazing boys we fall for in our books. If you’d like to participate then click the link and grab the image. I adored Dragos of the Read More...
Mini-Review: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill May 1, 2012 | Mini Reviews, Mystery, Reviews
Publisher: Vintage Books Copyright: 1983 Published: January 3, 2012 Pages: 164 Form: Paperback Find the Author: Susan Hill Buy The Book: B&N | Book Depository A classic ghost story: the chilling tale of a menacing specter haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford–a faraway Read More...
Review: Killer Insight by Victoria Laurie March 23, 2012 | Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Mystery, Reviews
Publisher: Penguin Copyright: 2006 Published: September 5, 2006 Pages: 288 Form: Paperback Series: A Psychic Eye Mystery (4) Find the Author: Victoria Laurie Buy The Book: B&N | Book Depository Died to Match When her relationship with FBI agent Dutch Rivers skids to a halt, Abby Cooper is fully aware that a wedding isn’t the best Read More...