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Fan site for Gretchen Lowell aka The Beauty Killer
After recently reading Chelsea Cain’s latest thriller, Evil at Heart, I never did check to see if the publicity info inside the story surrounding beautiful serial killer aka “beauty killer” Gretchen Lowell was actually clickable like the IHeartGretchenLowell website. OMG, the site is HILARIOUS (in a morbid way). I bet they […]
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Continue ReadingUNDONE (Grant County) by Karin Slaughter is the follow-up to BEYOND REACH published by Bantam Dell. UNDONE marks the merging of two series by Slaughter — Grant County series and the Will Trent series. Is this the end for the Grant County series?
WARNING: The following review contains spoilers for the Grant County series so if […]
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Continue ReadingRan across Blood Work yesterday afternoon and started rereading it after I went looking for another book in my library. I just started flipping through pages and decided to do a quick reread. I’d read BLOOD WORK a few years ago and enjoyed it fully. In fact, this is _the_ novel that got me hooked on Michael Connelly’s […]
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Continue ReadingWell, I’ve been in the mood for mystery and suspense of late and there was a recent discussion on Twitter about Ed McBain that whet my appetite and made me go looking to see what titles he had in ebook. Surprisingly, he had quite a few. Because this is a long-running series revolving around the 87th Precinct, I just […]
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Continue Reading Norwegian crime novelist, Jo Nesbø is a bestselling author who has a varied and interesting background. His vast array of experience is evidenced in this story which is large in scope and depth as far as police procedurals go.
In the US, there are currently only four of his books translated to English in the Harry Hole […]
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Continue ReadingSweetheart (2008) by Chelsea Cain is the sequel to last years, New York Times bestseller, Heartsick. The story is told in third person present tense and is set in Portland, Oregon.
The story takes place two months after the events of the last book.
Detectives Archie Sheridan and his partner, Henry Sobol are investigating a Jane Doe found in […]
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Continue ReadingHeart Sick (2007) by Chelsea Cain opens with a grisly flashback of Gretchen Lowell, hammering nails into the chest of the lead detective of the Beauty Killer Task force.
For ten years the task force had been tracking down a serial killer who was leaving 23 bodies across state lines. Only problem was that who they were looking […]
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Continue ReadingThe Quickie [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD) by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Authors), Mary Stuart Masterson (Reader)- Hachette Audio (2007). Here is the synopsis:
When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she’s sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan […]
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Continue ReadingCity of Shadows (2006) by Ariana Franklin revisits the story of Anna Anderson, a young Polish woman, who had claimed in real life to be the long lost daughter of Russia’s last czar.
While many people embrace the notion that Anastasia escaped, Anna Anderson finds herself the target of an elusive killer lurking in the shadows, […]
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Continue ReadingREVIEW: Where Are You Now? By Mary Higgins Clark, copyright April 2008, published by Simon & Schuster. Where Are You Now? is the latest book for Ms. Mary Higgins Clark and it is available in hardback and ebook at your favorite retailer.
Ten years ago, Charles Mackenzie, Jr. (Mac) disappeared from the Manhattan’s Upper West […]
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Continue ReadingExit Music by Ian Rankin is currently available in the UK and was published September 2007 by Orion and is the 17th entry in the DI John Rebus series set in and around Edinburgh.
In this entry, DI Rebus is one week away from retirement when he catches a case that appears more than just a random […]
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Continue ReadingSanctuary (Vol.1) , copyright 2004 by Sho Fuminmura and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami is about Japan having “no heroes”. It’s about two men who enter into the world of crime and politics, on different paths, who rise up within their organization’s ranks of power. They are ambitious and determined and will stop at nothing to […]
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Continue ReadingShutter Island by Dennis Lehane is a psychological thriller that was published way back in 2003. I bought it when it first came out but remembered that I just couldn’t get into it. I challenged myself to finish reading it this year and mission completed.
I was under the misguided impression that Lehane couldn’t possibly write anything of interest for […]
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Continue ReadingBeyond Reach by Karin Slaughter, July 31, 2007 release. Available formats include hardcover, audio CD and cassette and ebook. Beyond Reach is the 6th book in the popular Grant County series featuring Dr. Sara Linton, pediatrician and part-time coroner set in a fictional town outside Atlanta, Georgia.
The story opens with a taunt tension and a violent death. The […]
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Continue ReadingOdd Thomas by Dean Koontz (2003) is the first book in the Odd Series. Koontz is a writer whose work is often hard to classify sometimes. Some of the work he writes are straight up horror stories and some are not.
Odd Thomas is a story in between where you have a blend of paranormal aspects mixed with suspense. The story is narrated by the lead character […]
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