reviews

Not the Traditional Christie: A Peppy 1920s Thriller By: Agatha Christie Anne Beddingfeld, young, impressionable, erratic, and deeply romantic in that danger seeking, 1920s flapper sort of way (with all the accoutrements of shopping, diamonds, murderous men, and voyages to the far away) is not your typical Agatha Christie heroine. Less of a sleuth and more of a thrill seeker, Anne doesn’t want to end up a secretary, but instead wants to poke around in something bloody and mysterious. She gets her chance when she spends her last £87, left by her dead and not-so-missed father, on a boat ticket [...]

Prozac, Cattiness, and Deadly Beauty Author: Laura Levine Jaine Austen, the love-lorn female detective of the elastic waist jeans and vintage Coco Puffs t-shirt is back in action again, accepting an unlikely gig for the almighty dollar, which just might keep her cranky kitty Prozac in fish guts for a little longer. Entering into the teen queen beauty scene with Mommy Dearest, aka Heather Van Sant, and her ambivalent bookworm daughter, Taylor, Jaine is preparing to echo her success with the Toilet Masters Christmas jingle by penning Taylor a lovely song to croon. She’s mainly looking forward to some swank [...]

Reclaiming ancient grasslands... Author:  Dan O'Brien It actually sounds pretty boring. A financially strapped loner buys some buffalo for his desolate ranch in western South Dakota. Although maybe it only sounds that way because I know next to nothing about buffalo husbandry, Great Plains desolation or cattle ranching. But give author Dan O’Brien half a chance and he might just have you thinking about saving up for a bison ranch of your own. Buffalo for the Broken Heart is his thoughtful and moving story about his efforts to restore the plains to their original state – the way they were [...]