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When a plane lands at JFK with all the crew and passengers apparently dead but with no indications as to what could be the cause, the CDC is mystified. Nervous government officials would like to pretend that all is okay, but Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, head of the biological threat team, knows that something is terribly [...]
I first heard about Laura Lippman when Trish from Hey Lady read What The Dead Know, and loved it so much that she started the Laura Lippman Reading Challenge. Since then I have read countless reviews on book blogs full of veritable plaudits on Lippman’s work. I love a good mystery and I am always [...]
Abbe Deighton is a woman on the edge. Struggling with her role as mother to an active toddler, and wife to an embattled pastor in Hawaii (who is intent on running programs which do not endear him to church leaders), she is increasingly at the end of her rope with everyone. When Abbe and Greg’s [...]
This month Allie (Hist-Fic Chick) and I are featuring Harrowing Historicals in our Month Long Celebration of All Hallows, in other words, books with a scary bent that were set before 1960. Earlier in the year I read The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters for a discussion that I was having with Rebecca from The [...]
Mikael Blomqvist is a respected reporter and publisher of Millenium, a moderately successful financial reporting magazine that he owns with his long time lover Erika Berger. His career and all of their prospects take a nose dive after he is convicted of making libelous statements against business magnate Hans Erik Wennerstrom. Blomqvist is offered the [...]
Sharon McCone is a highly sucessful private investigator from humble origins who has managed to cobble together a wonderful family, and several loyal and dedicated employees and colleagues who will do just about anything for her. Sharon is a vibrant member of the community and an investigative professional at the top of her game. She [...]
Shimmer, by Eric Barnes is A Good Read. Robbie Case is the head of Core, a multi-million dollar company that he unwittingly founds with his cousin Trevor. Dealing in selling blue boxes full of high technology that greatly improves the speed and flow of information, he’s walking around with the secret that none of it [...]
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