Just a girl and her books
CAGED | Ellison Cooper (Agent Sayer Altair #1) 07.10.2018 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair has dedicated her life to understanding what makes a serial killer tick. She wants to know what is different about the brain of a killer and that of a normal person. When she’s not spending lab … Continue reading Book Review: Caged
THE BURNING CHAMBERS | Kate Mosse (The Burning Chambers #1) 06.18.2019 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars France, 1562: Minou Joubert is a nineteen-year-old growing up in a world filled with religious tensions between the Catholics and the Huguenots. For a while it seemed as though her family would avoid any consequences from the ongoing … Continue reading Book Review: The Burning Chambers
THE FIRST MISTAKE | Sandie Jones 06.11.2019 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Alice’s first husband disappeared while skiing several years ago. Since that time, Alice has been through a whirlwind of emotions, but managed to build her life back up. She is now married to her second husband, Nathan, who she works beside day … Continue reading Book Review: The First Mistake
THE ISLAND | Ragnar Jonasson (Hidden Iceland #2) 05.21.2019 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Ten years ago a young woman was murdered in her family’s summer house in the Westfjords. The detective working the case was adamant that the father was her killer, as there were seemingly no other suspects. The father was found … Continue reading Book Review: The Island
A BEAUTIFUL CORPSE | Christi Daugherty (Harper McClain #2) 03.12.2019 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Savannah’s downtown district is known for tourism and safety, until late one night the body of a young woman is found. Naomi Scott was a twenty-four year old law school student whose life was ended by a gunman. There … Continue reading Book Review: A Beautiful Corpse
THE RECKONING | Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Children’s House #2) 02.12.2019 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Vaka sits alone on the cold steps of her school. No one has come to pick her up and the school doors have long since locked behind her. Her mind is racing with possibilities of what will happen to her … Continue reading Book Review: The Reckoning
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
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
KINGDOM OF THE BLIND | Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #14) 11.27.2018 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Armand Gamache has received a mysterious letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of Three Pines. The former head of the Surete du Quebec soon learns that he has been named as an … Continue reading Book Review: Kingdom of the Blind
THE DARKNESS | Ragnar Jonasson 10.16.2018 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir has reached the age of retirement at sixty-four. Despite her fears of what this will mean for her future and desire to keep working the Reykjavik Police Department wants her out. They are ready for a man, several years … Continue reading Book Review: The Darkness
