This was another exciting thriller about family members serial killers. In this case, we have a husband and wife who team up and kill young women, while still seeming to be a normal suburban couple. Twisted!
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
My Sister the Serial Killer
Fiction by Oyinkan Braithwaite
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
This was a fun and fast-paced book! Set in Lagos, Nigeria, the story focuses on Korede, a plain and competent nurse who always feels overshadowed by her pretty and glamorous sister Ayoola. Still, as a good big sister, Korede is always there to help Ayoola and clean up the younger girl's messes. Unfortunately, the messes Ayoola gets into involve dead bodies of former boyfriends...
This book was very interesting and the ending was a surprise!
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Lock Every Door
Fiction by Riley Sager
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
This book was recommended to me by an online book club group I recently joined, and was touted as unputdownable. That was maybe too much hype, because it got my expectations too high.
It was good, but not great. The story begins with a girl called Jules who gets an apartment-sitting job in a fancy historic building in New York City. They're going to pay her $1000 per week to live there! Gee, does this seem too good to be true? Oh, but there are other apartment sitters there... who might be disappearing.... And why do they only employ young people with no close family members?
Yeah, this gave me a huge case of "Oh-No-I-Can't-Look"** Syndrome.
Still, it was interesting, and the ending did surprise me.
**Oh-No-I-Can't-Look Syndrome
(See also Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer)
That's when you know a main character is making a major error in judgement that's going to have huge and terrible consequences.
This book was recommended to me by an online book club group I recently joined, and was touted as unputdownable. That was maybe too much hype, because it got my expectations too high.
It was good, but not great. The story begins with a girl called Jules who gets an apartment-sitting job in a fancy historic building in New York City. They're going to pay her $1000 per week to live there! Gee, does this seem too good to be true? Oh, but there are other apartment sitters there... who might be disappearing.... And why do they only employ young people with no close family members?
Yeah, this gave me a huge case of "Oh-No-I-Can't-Look"** Syndrome.
Still, it was interesting, and the ending did surprise me.
(See also Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer)
That's when you know a main character is making a major error in judgement that's going to have huge and terrible consequences.
Sunday, March 8, 2020
The Last Widow
Fiction by Karin Slaughter.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
This story begins with a woman who is shopping with her preteen daughter when an unmarked white van swoops in for an abduction. As she's been taught, the girl runs away, but it's the mother they were after....
This was an exciting thriller involving the FBI and a crazy militia group. I did not expect the ending!
This story begins with a woman who is shopping with her preteen daughter when an unmarked white van swoops in for an abduction. As she's been taught, the girl runs away, but it's the mother they were after....
This was an exciting thriller involving the FBI and a crazy militia group. I did not expect the ending!
Thursday, March 5, 2020
The Book of Lost Things
Fiction by John Connolly
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
In this book, a twelve-year-old boy who has recently lost his mother crosses into a strange realm of fantasy. There is a fairy-tale element to the story, but it's not for children.
It was a pretty god story, but rather strange.
In this book, a twelve-year-old boy who has recently lost his mother crosses into a strange realm of fantasy. There is a fairy-tale element to the story, but it's not for children.
It was a pretty god story, but rather strange.
Monday, March 2, 2020
Long Bright River
Fiction by Liz Moore.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Every time policewoman Mickey Fitzpatrick hears a report of an unidentified female corpse, overdose suspected, she prays, "Don't let it be Kacey." Mickey's sister Kacey has been lost to drug addiction and prostitution for years on the streets of Philadelphia, and although they haven't spoken for a long while, Mickey still holds out hope for Kacey.
But when a series of young female junkies start turning up strangled, and Kacey is nowhere to be found, Mickey gets scared.
This was an interesting mystery, although not exactly a thriller. I was surprised by the end.
Sunday, March 1, 2020
The Body in the Library
Fiction by Agatha Christie
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
I enjoyed the premise of this book; it read kind of like Mrs. Christie was trying to see how absurd of a situation she could come up with to begin the story with. Here it is: The dead body of a young blonde in full makeup and a sequined evening gown is found on the hearth rug in a respectable English country house owned by a retired colonel and his wife. Nobody knows who on earth she even is, much less how she got there or why she died.
The genius of Mrs. Christie is that she can take this opening, which sounds like a ridiculous writing prompt exercise, and weave an absolutely perfect mystery story, incorporating the fabulous Miss Marple. Great story!
I also read recently by this author: Evil Under the Sun
I enjoyed the premise of this book; it read kind of like Mrs. Christie was trying to see how absurd of a situation she could come up with to begin the story with. Here it is: The dead body of a young blonde in full makeup and a sequined evening gown is found on the hearth rug in a respectable English country house owned by a retired colonel and his wife. Nobody knows who on earth she even is, much less how she got there or why she died.
The genius of Mrs. Christie is that she can take this opening, which sounds like a ridiculous writing prompt exercise, and weave an absolutely perfect mystery story, incorporating the fabulous Miss Marple. Great story!
I also read recently by this author: Evil Under the Sun
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