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Beautiful Ugly

“Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.” Author: Alice Feeney Author Grady Green is a ruined man. He can’t write anymore. He can’t think of anything anymore except his disappeared, presumed dead wife, and the night that everything happened. He was on the phone with her, elated to tell her his good news, when she slammed on the breaks, got out of the car, and then exited his life forever. Her coat was found in the waves below the cliff she was driving up. Now, at the behest of his agent, Grady is going to a reclusive cabin on a Scottish [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-16T10:53:02-07:00October 16th, 2025|Tags: Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly, book review, botm, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Footprints of Thunder

Humans and Dinosaurs, Together Again Author: James F. David What’s better than dinosaurs? Dinosaurs running amok among people, of course! Footprints of Thunder is a science fiction / techno thriller in the vein of a Michael Crichton epic. Science and adventure/action survival merge here when time waves, caused by humanity’s reckless use of nuclear weapons, brings parts of the past into the present and parts of the present into the past. This is happening on a global scale – suddenly and viciously. Cities have gone missing – including Portland. In their place, primordial forests and savannahs have emerged, populated by strange [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-07T20:35:37-07:00October 7th, 2025|Tags: book review, dinosaurs, horror, read, reading, science fiction, techno thriller, thriller|

Butcher Game, The

"Sometimes the devil is just a human who wants to inflict pain." Author: Alaina Urquhart Dr. Wren Muller still remembers the woods. The terror. The serial killer who nearly ended her life. Right now, she’s taking some forced time off and trying to recalibrate her mind, but she knows that he’s still out there – the Bayou Butcher, otherwise known as Jeremy Rose. And she knows him. His sick game isn’t over. Sooner or later, he’ll come for the one that got away. The Butcher Game is the second in the Dr. Wren Muller series, and my introduction to the writing [...]

Frances Carden2025-08-24T10:46:13-07:00August 24th, 2025|Tags: Alaina Urquhart, book review, crime, read, reading, serial killer, The Butcher Game, thriller, Wren Muller|