[amazon_link id=”1594633118″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Paying Guests Author : Sarah Waters Narrator : Juliet Stevenson Genre : Historical Publisher : Penguin Audio Listening Length : 21 hours 28 minutes Rating : 4.5/5 It is the 1920s and Frances Wray and her mother live in genteel poverty in their South London home. Their […]
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Audiobook Review : The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
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Posted in 2015, 4.5_star_rating, audiobook, books, culture and society, historical, literature, mystery, penguin_books, recommended, romance, thriller, women |
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The Best Books of 2014
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Posted in 2014, 2015, books, favorites, lists, must read, mystery, recommended, sci-fi |
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This has been the year of the audio-book for me, but more on that later. I did actually read some books, and here are my Top 4 out of all them. [amazon_link id=”0553418025″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]#1. The Martian by Andy Weir This was without doubt the Best Book of 2014, and I knew it as […]
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Posted in 2014, 4_star_rating, arc, books, crime, macmillan, mystery, netgalley, religion, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”1250043395″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Invisible City (Rebekah Roberts Novels) Author : Julia Dahl Genre : Mystery Publisher : Minotaur Books Pages: 304 Publish Date : May 6th, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.2/5 Rebekah Roberts is a journalist, a stringer to be precise. She has been working for […]
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Posted in 2014, 4_star_rating, books, crime, Grove Atlantic, mystery, netgalley, women |
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[amazon_link id=”0802122345″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : A Circle of Wives Author : Alice LaPlante Genre : Mystery Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press (Grove Atlantic) Pages: 325 Publish Date : March 4th, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.2/5 That title had me going. Circle here is a collective noun, so that […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
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Posted in 2014, 4.5_star_rating, arc, books, crime, must read, mystery, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review |
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[amazon_link id=”0812995201″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Weight of Blood Author : Laura McHugh Genre : Mystery Publisher : Spiegel & Grau (Random House) Pages: 320 Publish Date : March 11th, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 Lucy Dane has grown up in the small rural town of Henbane, in […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Lake of Tears by Mary Logue (2014)
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Posted in 2014, 3_star_rating, arc, books, crime, mystery, netgalley, Tyrus Books |
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[amazon_link id=”1440571503″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Lake of Tears Author : Mary Logue Genre : Mystery Publisher : Tyrus Books Pages: 208 Publish Date : January 1st, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 3/5 Lake of Tears is the 9th book of the Claire Watkins series. In this, Deputy Sheriff Watkins […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Corpse Flower by Gloria Ferris
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Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, dundurn, humor, mystery, netgalley, quirky |
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[amazon_link id=”1459707125″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Corpse Flower Author : Gloria Ferris Genre : Mystery Publisher : Dundurn Pages: 408 Publish Date : December 14th, 2013 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.2/5 Ex-socialite Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall was once married to attorney Mike Bains. Since then Mike has remarried and shafted Bliss […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Last Clinic by Gary Gusick
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Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, mystery, random_house, recommended, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”B00DACZTX8″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Last Clinic Author : Gary Gusick Genre : Mystery Publish Date : November 18th, 2013 Publisher : Alibi (Random House) Source : Netgalley/Publisher Rating 4.2/5 Reverend Jimmy Aldridge is a regular protestor outside the local women’s health clinic in the small town of Jackson, Missisipi. One day, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Case of the Love Commandos by Tarquin Hall
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Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, books, culture and society, desi, food, fun stuff, humor, india, mystery, recommended, simon_schuster, south-asian |
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[amazon_link id=”1451613261″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Case of the Love Commandos Author : Tarquin Hall Genre : Mystery Publisher : Simon & Schuster Publish Date : September 8th 2013 Pages : 320 Source : Netgalley/Publisher Rating : 4/5 This is the second book of the Vish Puri series that I have read; I’ve […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Impersonator by Mary Miley
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Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, crime, macmillan, mystery, netgalley, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”1250028167″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Impersonator Author : Mary Miley Genre : Adventure/Mystery Publisher : Minotaur Books Publish date : September 17, 2013 Pages : 368 Source : Publisher/Netgalley Rating : 4/5 Leah Randall is a stage actress in vaudeville in the early 1900s. When she is mistaken for a heiress by […]
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