![]() ![]() Three figures hold paintings in front of their faces in a room covered with pink, floral, old lady wallpaper. And the killer’s not finished yet…ĭiscussion: I find the cover of this edition of Grave Sight is aggressively ugly. With hostility welling up all around them, she and Tolliver would like nothing better than to be on their way. A teenage girl has gone missing, but the secrets of her death - and the secrets of the town - are deep enough that even Harper’s special ability can’t uncover them. ![]() Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver are experts at getting in, getting paid, and then getting out of town fast - because the people who hire Harper have a funny habit of not really wanting to know what she has to tell them.Īt first, the little Ozarks town of Sarne seems like no exception. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. Series: Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book #1 I also chose this book because it was the only first book in her various series that the library had in stock that I hadn’t already read. Grave Sight was one of the books that I grabbed because I enjoy Charlaine Harris’ light, quirky paranormal mystery books. ![]() On the very last day before the public library closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, I made a frantic trip to snatch up as many books as I could. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But the police-procedural routine (including clinical descriptions of the victims' bodies) is convincing the obligatory characters (Kay's niece Lucy, bullying boss Dr. Kay Scarpetta, her harried narrator-heroine, is so painfully tight that the landscape (Richmond, Virginia) is barely there, and the detective work-involving DNA profiling, traces of borax, a break-in to Kay's computer files, and a sweetish smell the killer leaves behind-is competent but no more. How has the killer picked his victims, and what did they have in common? Cornwell's focus on County Medical Examiner Dr. ![]() The plot is as familiar as yesterday's headlines: four young women have been attacked at home, raped, and strangled, always on Friday nights, by someone who seems familiar with their habits. Another serial killer is on the loose in a first novel from reporter, biographer Cornwell (A Time for Remembering-not reviewed). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brina ed Eagan formano presto un legame di amicizia, ma non solo. Da allora, i due sono diventati praticamente inseparabili, trascorrendo sempre le estati insieme e facendo affidamento l'uno sull'altra. I due protagonisti, Brina ed Eagan, si conoscono da quando lei aveva nove anni e lui quindici. Poi però, la storia ti prende ed inizia a farsi molto interessante. Ho fatto un po' fatica all'inizio ad entrare nel racconto, perchè la storia fa un bel po' di balzi temporali e ci vuole un po' ad adattarsi. Anche solo per questo si meriterebbe cinque stelle su cinque. Di solito, non hanno né capo né coda ed i verbi sono completamente sballati, invece Petra March ha scritto un'intera conversazione, grammaticalmente giusta e corretta. Credo sia la prima volta che leggo un libro in inglese con frasi in italiano scritte correttamente. Per prima cosa, vorrei ringraziare la scrittrice. (che ha letto il libro in lingua originale) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every 13th Halloween, he will take three of their children, who are never heard from again. January, who struck a cursed deal with the town's founders. The only other clue they have about these supernatural disturbances is a book of fairy tales unlike any they've read before. Second: Don't speak of the wrong things to anyone else. First: Don't let the "wrong things" know you can see them. And worse - no one else can see them.Įxcept for her new friends, Pip and Otto, who teach her a thing or two about surviving in Eden Eld. All she wants is to be normal, and these are far from normal. And a black dog with glowing red eyes follows her around town. ![]() But then she spots a large bird, staring at her as she boards the school bus. When she awakes to discover an ancient grandfather clock that she's never seen before outside her new room, she's sure her eyes must be playing tricks on her. Neil Gaiman's Coraline meets Stranger Things in a dark and twisted story about a sleepy town with a dark secret - and the three kids brave enough to uncover it.Įvery 13 years in the town of Eden Eld, three 13-year-olds disappear.Įleanor has just moved to the quiet, prosperous Eden Eld. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, everything isn’t what it seems, the line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, and she finds herself in icy Algid – her true home – with witches, thieves, and a strangely alluring boy named Kai, none of whom she’s sure she can trust. Using her trusting friend Bale as a distraction, Snow breaks free and races into the nearby woods. When she meets a mysterious, handsome new orderly and dreams about a strange twisted tree she realizes she must escape and figure out who she really is. Deep down, she knows she’s not crazy and doesn’t belong there. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent most of her life inside the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate New York. If You Like Danielle Paige Books, You’ll Love…ĭanielle Paige Synopsis: Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige is the first book of a new series based on the Snow Queen fairytale. ![]() ![]() This little alcove was home to all of my paranoid delusions and nightmarish meanderings, a place I felt like I was trapped in as a child, then a teenager. I’m from a very small town in rural Wisconsin, and our house was at the outskirts, next to a giant cornfield, beyond it nothing but cow country. ![]() How did you come up with your idea for your novel? OK, you got me: we settled out of court, and I am adhering to the strict allowances of the restraining order. I only wrote about 90 pages before I crapped out … I’m sure it was brilliant but I had all these, you know, “legal” issues to deal with, what with it being “unauthorized” and all. Suffice to say, she didn’t reciprocate my affection, but the seeds of writing had been sown! I later ventured into short stories, poems, and song lyrics, then by the age of 13, I attempted my first novel, a sequel to “The Stand” by Stephen King. I cast myself in the lead role of Santa and offered her the part of Mrs. The first thing I recall writing was a holiday-themed play in second grade to gain the favor of a girl I liked. What or who inspired you to start writing? Please welcome Edgar Swamp author of Amber HollowĮdgar Swamp will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. ![]() ![]() You throw in an organ grinder and some insolent chickens and you've got the making of a great short story. It's got murder, witchcraft, a creepy house, a curse, a spinster and her childlike convict brother, some mystery hottie and a fair maiden. I could definitely put it to better use.Īnd you know what? It's not such a bad story, really. Its judgmental gables peeking out at me while I'd sit by the lighthouse eating lunch. I'd never fully look it in the eye, feeling the shame wash over me. I'd be betraying my countryman.įor a few years, in my younger days, I worked down the street from the House of the Seven Gables and I'd always get this literary stab of guilt for not having read it. I mean how much more New Englandy can you get? I couldn't just- give up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why the hell did I pick this up again? Life's too short, you say? You have 200+ other books on your 'to read' shelf and this was sucking your will to read? Give it up! You're right. ![]() ![]() To my Yali friends-Foliek, Sar, Dongla, Luliap, Yemu, Erariek, Latowen, Aralek, Suwi, Emeroho, Engehap, Kusaho, Nalimo, and others-for spellbinding data on Yali culture and history. ![]() In a few cases, gaps in the memory of my informants concerning certain persons or events have been filled with culturally typical material from other Yali persons or events. I have therefore taken some liberties in arranging these events in a chronological order, which enables readers to understand cultural significance more readily. The events in Part One, The Three-Rimmed World, are of course undated as narrated to me by Yali informants, since the Yali possessed no dating system. ![]() The names of some of the Yali characters in this book have been shortened or altered to make them easier to pronounce and remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of print for ages, it's finally back in 2011! Just think: if I'd read Anno Dracula back then, I'd have had well over 15 years to recommend it to people. But last month I found a perfect edition of the original Avon paperback and bought it on a whim. Shame, because I'd loved loved loved Newman's book on the modern horror film, Nightmare Movies (1988). For some reason, when reading its jacket, I just thought, Oh, sounds kinda cool, but wasn't overly convinced of its readability and anything about the British monarchy generally bores me beyond tears. ![]() Would that I read it upon its original publication, when I was working in a big chain bookstore and reading at a pace like never before or since (blame the internets). Look, I'm just gonna jump in head-first and not fuck around: Anno Dracula, the fourth non-pseudonymous novel from British film writer Kim Newman, is one of the most accomplished and thoroughly enjoyable novels I've read, not just for Too Much Horror Fiction, but, like, ever. ![]() ![]() And he's hell-bent on recovering his treasure. 2014: After thirty-five years in prison, Morris is up for parole. 2009: Pete Saubers, a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes, discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein's notebooks. ![]() 1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America's iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel. Now he's preparing to kill again Each starts to close in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time.Ī riveting crime thriller about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes too far, featuring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in MR MERCEDES. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of that notorious crime, has sent Hodges a taunting letter. 1 bestseller introduces retired cop Bill Hodges in a race against time to apprehend a killer A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre', a case he never solved. ![]() Described as 'the best thriller of the year' Sunday Express, the No. ![]() |