On a wintry night in the Peak District, a thirteen year old girl, on holiday with her parents, goes missing. Her name is Rebecca, or Becky, or Bex. She’d been wearing a white hoodie, a navy blue body warmer, and canvas shoes. The town comes out in force, searching barns, quarries, forests, but nothing comes of it. Slowly, the people of the town resume daily life, and as the seasons pass, the girl slips from the public consciousness. The girl’s parents are occasionally seen wandering […]
We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments.
I found out about this book from a post linked on Lithub, and I was interesting by the ways the author portrayed this detective series I’d never heard of: How a Drug-Addicted Art Critic Created the Perfect Sleuth for the Jazz Age So I checked my local library and they had this copy in the stacks. My library has been around for a 100 years or more, and while they don’t have that many branches and it’s all a little 1970s inside them, the […]
Outlander meets Criminal Minds
When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. This was certainly not a book to take seriously – think of a wallpaper historical novel with a modern day heroine who just doesn’t fit in, nor does she seem to care to. Kendra Donovan is supposedly a child prodigy; she went […]
Home Improvement
Alan Sepinwall, my favorite TV critic, has a running gag in his columns where he talks about how he’d like to see a character from whatever show he’s reviewing have a spin-off where they do banal tasks relational to the character’s motives. My personal favorite was the suggestion that goofy Justified gangster Wynn Duffy get a series called Wynnipeg in which he gets continually frustrated at teaching Canadians how to be criminals. At any rate, three books into the Hoke Moseley series and I feel like this one, as well […]