Fiction by Adrian McKitry
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Come to the Window
Fiction by Howard Norman
It's 1918 in Nova Scotia. "Come to the window," says Elizabeth Frame to her new husband, as she stands in the moonlight looking from their honeymoon hotel room. She has seen a whale beach itself and finds the sight moving, but her husband doesn't come to look at it. So... she shoots him in the head.
Wait, what?
Yes, this is a weird book. I didn't really like it.
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Displacement
Fiction by Justin Pick
This book is set in 1998; technically, I'd say that's historical fiction, although it pains me to admit it.
In the story an eighteen-year-old boy called Liam Donohue goes to the police station to confess murder, and insists on telling a long convoluted story about it. A long-suffering detective listens to the whole thing with measured skepticism.
It's hard to tell what's real and what is imagined in Liam's recollections, so the detective isn't wrong to suspect his veracity. The reader also cannot be sure of the truth, and indeed the plot stretches believability quite a bit. The ending is definitely a surprise.
It was a pretty good story but I didn't love it.
Friday, December 12, 2025
The Taken Ones
Amazon Prime Kindle Fiction by Jess Lourey
This is the first book in the "Steinbeck and Reed" series and it's definitely hooked me to read the next one.
Detective Evangeline "Van" Reed works in the cold case division of the Minnesota BCA (Bureau of Criminal Apprehension) and volunteers at the animal shelter in her spare time. Van is a former Minneapolis police officer who operates strongly on hunches, many of which are uncannily correct. In this story she is assigned to reopen the case of "The Taken Ones," a pair of little girls who disappeared in the woods of suburban Minneapolis in 1980. She enlists the help of colleague Harry Steinbeck, who is a by-the-book man opposite her in temperament. Surprisingly, they work well together.
This was an exciting mystery with good characters and several surprises.
I also read recently (FREE!) from Amazon Prime Kindle: Don't Let Her Stay
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