read Archives

Classic in the Barn

Classic Cars and Crazy Crimes Author: Amy Myers Jack Colby runs a forever-in-the-red car restoring business, a leftover from his father’s heyday. To make ends meet and keep his shady competitors from buying him out, Jack also does some work on cold-car cases, mostly by helping the police track car theft rings. One day, as he is going about business, he runs into a 1938 Lagonda V12, hidden in a country barn. Overwhelmed with car love, he jumps a fence, does a little trespassing, and is just inspecting the forlorn beauty with her sad headlights when the enraged owner shows up [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-07T15:16:08-07:00December 7th, 2024|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, read, reading|

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

The Scent of Young Womanhood Author: Patrick Suskind Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born into filth, unwanted. His mother was executed for attempting to kill him. Grenouille was passed from one church to another, one nurse to another, but everyone found something about him, even as a child, that was unsettling, wrong. The infant had no smell, and this was, they felt, a harbinger of something altogether inhuman. Something other and twisted. They were not wrong. While Grenouille has no scent of his own, he has a powerful gift. He can decipher and catalog odors in a way that no other can. Odors [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-02T14:08:48-07:00December 2nd, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, reaading, read|

Dark Corners

The Dark Side of Social Media Author: Megan Goldin A beloved van-life influencer, Maddison Logan, has vanished. Suspected serial killer Terrance Bailey was the last person to see her. Why did she visit him in jail? What did she say to him during their tense meeting, and why did she recommend that he contact true-crime podcaster Rachel Krall? With the killer soon to finish his sentence, police are clamoring for more evidence to keep this dangerous man off the streets and find out how he is connected to Maddison’s disappearance. They have long suspected that he did not act alone. With [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-01T20:29:41-07:00December 1st, 2024|Tags: book review, read, reading, thriller|