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To Kill and Kill Again

The Man Who Said He Did It . . . Did It Author: John Coston The “Missoula Mauler” was a serial sex killer of opportunity. During the day, he supposedly moved about his small, Montana town unnoticed: your average next-door guy. But when opportunity presented itself, he became a sadist with a penchant for ropes, rape, and murder. He targeted everyone from the girl next door, to a lost child, to a minister’s unfortunate wife, only meeting his end when his fascination with one potential victim went terribly wrong. I admit, I’d never heard of this particular serial killer before, but [...]

Queen’s Musician, The

Forbidden Love and a King's Schemes Author: Martha Jean Johnson Anne Boleyn stole the scene at court – until she lost her head. All these hundreds of years later, she still captivates us; her story – a grand rise and a horrible, bloody fall – fill both our history books and our lurid imaginations. What’s not to love? A forbidden romance. A thwarted, egotistical king wanting an heir. An ambitious, beautiful young woman wanting to rise in the world and willing to do anything – absolutely anything – to make it happen. A kingdom divided between them. Man and church warring [...]

2025-04-14T19:03:26-07:00April 14th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Quiet Life, A

“We live so much of our lives without telling anyone.” Author: Ethan Joella Three lives, going on separately, are each occluded by the unrelenting pressure of grief. One winter, as the ice shines on the road and the cold seeps into the bones, three strangers find each other through the twists of fate. Together, they start to discover the next steps in a life that will not end, no matter how much they wish that it had. It’s weird to say that Ethan Joella’s A Quiet Life is cozy when the themes – death, pain, grief, separation, betrayal – are so [...]

2025-04-12T09:24:00-07:00April 12th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |
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