Just a girl and her books
UNSUB | Meg Gardiner 06.27.2017 | Dutton Books Rating: 5/5 stars Caitlin Hendrix is the daughter of well-known Detective Mack Hendrix. She has been working hard to make a name for herself on the force outside of the limelight forced on her. Caitlin has been assigned a detective position in Narcotics for the past six … Continue reading Book Review: UNSUB
THE DARK LAKE | Sarah Bailey 10.03.2017 | Grand Central Publishing Rating: 3.5/5 stars Rosalind Ryan has been found floating in the lake early one morning by a jogger in her rural hometown of Smithson. The night of Rose’s death was the debut of her play, a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, performed at … Continue reading Book Review: The Dark Lake
1984 | George Orwell First published 06.08.1949 | Signet Classics Rating: 5/5 stars The current year is 1984, or at least that’s what the newspapers indicate. Winston Smith is living in Oceania, one of the three ever-warring superstates that the world has been divided in to, in a small one-room flat and belongs to the … Continue reading Book Review: 1984
STILL LIFE | Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1) 09.30.2008 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars It’s Thanksgiving in Quebec’s quaint town of Three Pines and friends are gathering to enjoy each other’s company on this holiday. One morning the body of Jane Neal, a beloved member of the community is found dead in … Continue reading Book Review: Still Life
WHITE BODIES | Jane Robins 09.19.2017 | Touchstone Rating: 5/5 stars Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple, a financier and fresh-faced actress, hopelessly in love with each other. When the curtains are drawn and their alone together, the perfect façade breaks and reveals an oddity and violent passion lurking at the heart of … Continue reading Book Review: White Bodies
THE SNOWMAN | Jo Nesbø 06.28.2016 (originally 2007) | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Rating: 5/5 stars It’s November in Oslo and the first snow has just fallen. Young Jonas wakes in the middle of the night and discovers his mother is missing. Desperate to find her he searches the entire house, but the only thing he … Continue reading Book Review: The Snowman
HUNTING THE FIVE POINT KILLER | C.M. Wendelboe 10.08.2017| Midnight Ink Rating: 4/5 stars Former Denver homicide detective, Arn Anderson has been called back into duty. This time around he’s moonlighting as a consultant for a TV news program, hired to look into a cold murder case. TV reporter Ana Maria Villareal believes that the … Continue reading Review: Hunting the Five Point Killer
Read: Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillian Hello Again by Brenda Novak The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen September was jam packed with life events for me. In case you guys didn't know...I GOT MARRIED!!!! Then the hubby and I went on an amazing 2 week West Coast honeymoon … Continue reading September Wrap Up
THE SCARRED WOMAN | Jussi Adler-Olsen 09.19.2017 | Dutton Books Rating: 4 stars THE SCARRED WOMAN is book seven in the Department Q series. This installment finds Department Q detective, Carl Morck, leading up one of his toughest cases yet. The department specializes in cold cases, but this time around it looks like this players … Continue reading Book Review: The Scarred Woman
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