The interesting thing about Mary Roberts Rinehart's mysteries, to me, is that everyone has so many secrets. Don't get me wrong, all mysteries rely on secrets: what people know but are not saying. In Christie's Crooked House, almost everyone in the family seems to know or suspect who the murderer is: they want it to …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Album by Mary Roberts Rinehart
What did you do this weekend? It was raining Saturday so, after getting some chores done, I got a head-start on the week's posts. While I was working on one of the books I discussed - Never Saw Me Coming - I discovered that the author had another book out. So, with nothing else on …
Continue reading 365 Books: A Step Past Darkness by Vera Kurian
So, when Americans think of the Netherlands, we don't think of forests. (In fact, when I got ready to write about this book, I remember it as having been set in Norway. Oops.) We think of windmills and Amsterdam and flat flood plains. We don't think about forests. But apparently - according to this novel …
Continue reading 365 Books: You’ll Thank Me for This by Nina Siegal
This is the story of a small town in Northern California, a town plagued by a serial killer who is raping and murdering young women and teenage girls, some as young as 14. He picks them up off the street and takes them away and their bodies are found on peaceful lake shores, under overpasses. …
Continue reading 365 Books: A Season of Madness by Robert Scott
The NYT Sunday Magazine recently featured an interview with a woman who said she was a sociopath. Suddenly my feeds were full of articles about how women could be psychopaths, too, and were they worse than male psychopaths, and female serial killer, and all sorts of messy thinking on this topic, masquerading as news and …
Continue reading 365 Books: Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
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