reviews

The Silence of Justice Author: Robert Barnard Former Soccer star and current moderate television and radio success, Matt Harper gets more than he bargained for when buying a cozy house in the small English village of Leeds. While exploring the attic with his would-be designer, some old and terribly tiny bones are revealed, heaped in a hidden corner. This house has its share of horrors, its unburied (perhaps un-mourned) secrets, and they somehow tie into Matt’s past, playing in this very village, near this house, discovering his love of soccer with the strange local children. Something unsettling churns in his [...]

Violence to the fourth power... Author:  Karl Jacoby Converting history into words is problematic.  History is countless simultaneous events tangled up in each other, while most storytelling tends to be linear.  In the traditional approach, the historian gathers a pile of interrelated facts and attempts to assemble them into a coherent story, usually arranging them along a linear timeline.  But if an author is brave enough he or she might try something different.  In Shadows at Dawn, historian Karl Jacoby, approaches one of the most notorious events in western US history by presenting four completely different – and almost incompatible [...]

Why You Should Never Buy a Book Based on the Cover Author: Alex Erickson What could be better than kitties, coffee, and cozy bookstores? Death by Coffee stars some astonishing cover art, which captivates cat and cozy lovers from the first glimpse. The back cover blurb describes a duo of friends striking out on their own, building a combination coffee and bookshop named after a fictitious murder mystery; they even introduce a resident feline, aptly named Trouble. The shop’s name soon proves prophetic, however, when the town crank ends-up dead after his first, and only, coffee purchase. Now a hunky policeman [...]