reviews

'Till Death Do Us Part Author: Greg Iles Shattered, FBI Agent Morse is shocked when her dying sister, wasting away with a slow cancer, whispers that she is being murdered – by her own husband. Haunted by the last sight of fear in her fading sibling’s eyes, Agent Morse is stunned by the impossibility of such a murder and yet . . . yet there does seem to be something not quite right about her sister’s seemingly “natural” death. At the very least, Morse feels that she should retrieve her nephew from the clutches of his suspicious, and newly wealthy, [...]

Getting Ferberized Author: Ed Ifkovic Do you know who Edna Ferber was?  I mean, beyond recognizing her name?  Then you’re one step ahead of where I was when I opened the book Cold Morning and discovered that she is the main character in author Ed Ifkovic’s mystery series.  This happens to be the sixth book in the series which, combined with having to look up exactly who the woman was, made for some…interesting reading. Cold Morning has our main character, the fictionalized Edna Ferber, camped out (figuratively, of course, she’s actually in a fine hotel) in the small New Jersey [...]

Soul Mate Skullduggery Author: Harlan Coben I love Harlan Coben.  I’ve never been disappointed in a book he wrote.  I’m not claiming that they’re some form of high literature (if they were I would likely hate them), but they are fantastic escapist reading.  However, I hate – I mean really, really HATE – the pop culture notion of the “soul mate”.  You know, that one person without whom you can never be happy, who you must search for, who is perfect for you in every way.  It makes me vomit.  So what happens when Coben writes an entire book about [...]