reviews

Monty Python Meets The Western Canon Author: Voltaire Back on my classics kick, I returned to my randomized Excel list and was dismayed to see the next selection was Candide. Even the audio book cover itself, depicting a smiling gentlemen in powdered wig, dredged up images of marble busts and tedious lectures. I was pleased to find out that the unabridged audiobook, however, was only three discs and figured that anything could be survived for that long, no matter how stuffy and unappealingly old school. Soon, however, my relief over the shortness of the text transformed into disappointment as the bawdy, saucy, sardonic, [...]

Forensics and Ancient Death Rites Author: Erin Hart Interweaving modern forensic science with the mysticism of ancient pagan death rites, vengeful gods, and preserved secrets, lovingly hidden in a bog for thousands of years, Erin Hart’s keening Irish mystery series returns with another brutal set of slayings. Nora Gavin, haunted American forensic pathologist, returns to Ireland to autopsy a newly unearthed Iron Age bog body, an ancient victim of a triple death rite. Trembling between her intense feelings for Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and her promise to her dead sister, Nora’s emotional state colors the mire of peat and buried [...]

The Beginning of the Quintessential Cozy Mystery Series Author: Louise Penny Three Pines is a quaint Montreal Village with stunning forest vistas, antique shops, elegant walkways, surrounding mountain scenery, bakeries, quirky citizens, and old, deadly secrets. Miss Jane Neal, an elderly and beloved lady of the town has recently opened up to the possibility of displaying her artwork – long held as a painful, perhaps even scandalous, secret. When her strange painting, “Fair Day” is judged as worthy of being included in the upcoming show, Jane does something extremely unlikely – she invites everyone into her home for a dinner [...]