reviews

Ghosts, Submersibles, Thieves, and Confessions Author: Carolyn Keene While visiting an engaged friend at her recently purchased cozy inn, Nancy discovers diamond thieves, bombs, strange submersibles, and a doppelganger with an axe to grind. Our titian haired heroine, back for the fourth time, is involved in what is thus far her most dangerous investigation yet. Torn between helping her down-and-out friend who relies on the Lilac Inn’s successful establishment to afford her marriage and a credit-card stealing double who is not only racking up bills but bad feeling, Nancy is once again plunged into a dual mystery. Only this time, [...]

Antarctica or Bust... Author:  Laurie Gwen Shapiro History writing via serendipity.  Sometimes the results are fun and intriguing.  A few years ago, while researching an unrelated topic, journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro came across the story of a young man named Billy Gawronski.  A minor celebrity in the late 1920s, for a brief time he was internationally famous as America’s youngest Antarctic explorer.  She tells his remarkable true story in The Stowaway. Commander Byrd in 1928   The son of Polish immigrants, Billy grew up in New York City, seemingly destined to inherit his father’s fine upholstery business.  But [...]

Another Abusive Relationship Thriller Author: Clare Mackintosh A rainy night – the cold post-twilight streets slicked in wet and glistening oil, a small hand, just briefly letting go . . . and then brakes . . . and death. And so it begins, Clare Mackintosh’s I Let You Go, a visceral novel of both murder and grief, set against the backdrop of a twisting thriller and secrets hidden in a beach side cabin. Jenna Gray remembers the exact moment of impact, the young face, surprised, smashing into the spidering windshield, the banshee wail, the impact of a life taken and another [...]