Just a girl and her books
OUT BEHIND THE BARN | John Boden & Chad Lutzke 09.27.2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Rating: 5/5 stars Davey and Ronny can hear Miss Maggie returning in the middle of the night. As they creep to their window, they spot her heading to the barn with a long bundle, the weight of which makes … Continue reading Book Review: Out Behind the Barn
NEMESIS | Jo Nesbo (Harry Hole #4) 10.03.2017 (first published 2002) | Harper Perennial Rating: 4/5 stars A masked man recently entered an Oslo bank to rob them. Things quickly turned deadly, as a cashier was shot dead after being instructed to count down from twenty-five. Less than thirty seconds to empty an ATM. Less … Continue reading Book Review: Nemesis
BLACKOUT | Ragnar Jonasson (Dark Iceland #3) 07.15.2016 | Orenda Books Rating: 5/5 stars The body of a man, Elias, who has been brutally beaten to death is found on the quiet shores of Iceland. With very few clues to go on, Ari Thor and Tomas, begin investigating the man’s coworkers and close friends in … Continue reading Book Review: Blackout
STIRRING THE SHEETS | Chad Lutzke 04.13.2018 | Bloodshot Books Rating: 5/5 stars Emmett is an elderly funeral home worker who is struggling to cope with the loss of his wife. He can’t bring himself to change the sheets from the last night she slept in their bed. Emmett knows that he needs to move … Continue reading Book Review: Stirring the Sheets
PET SEMATARY | Stephen King 12.04.2018 (first published 11.14.1983) | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Dr. Louis Creed has landed a new job, which takes his family from Chicago to the rural town of Ludlow, Maine. Their new house is located in a quiet section of the town and seems to be the perfect place for … Continue reading Book Review: Pet Sematary
THE LEGACY | Yrsa Sigurdardottir 02.13.2018 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars A mother of three has been found murdered in her home while her children slept in their beds. The only witness to this horrific crime is her daughter, Margret, who heard the disturbance and was hiding under her mother’s bed. Unable and unwilling … Continue reading Book Review: The Legacy
SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW | David Bell 12.31.2018 | Berkley Books Rating: 3/5 stars Nick Hansen is just an average guy out grocery shopping when he comes across a young woman who is the spitting image of his former college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a house fire twenty years ago. When Nick … Continue reading Book Review: Somebody I Used to Know
THE NOWHERE CHILD | Christian White 01.22.2019 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars Kim Leamy is a photography teacher living in Australia. One day she is approached by a man named Stuart who tells her about a two-year-old child who disappeared twenty-six years earlier from Manson, Kentucky named Sammy Went. A little girl who was … Continue reading Book Review: The Nowhere Child
CHANGELING | Matt Wesolowski (Six Stories #3) 01.15.2019 | Orenda Books Rating: 5/5 stars Christmas Eve 1988 marks the night that seven-year-old Alfie Marsden disappeared into the Wentshire Forest. Alfie’s father, Sorrel, claims that he pulled over because he heard a tapping noise coming from under the hood. Sometime between Sorrel getting out of the … Continue reading Book Review: Changeling
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO | Stieg Larsson (Millennium #1) 06.23.2009 | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Rating: 5/5 stars Financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist has found himself being sued for libel by an extremely wealthy financier Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. Blomkvist has ended up in hot water after publishing an article about Wennerstrom that he appears to have … Continue reading Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
