Picking up right after then end of Jenny Finn: Doom, Joe is at work (he’s the “Hammer Man” at the slaughterhouse), still troubled by the events of the previous day. It’s one CLONK! after another until the next cow in line speaks to him and reveals the plague once again. That’s it. Joe quits on the spot and goes to get a bottle to drown his sorrows while he plots out how he can escape the city. Little Polly Platt comes along and tells him she […]
Boring Contemporary Romance, But With a Mild Tirade
I’m pretty sure that this story is what people who don’t read Harlequin Romances think they are like. For all I know, they may be right. When You’re Ready was a neat and tidy package tied up with a bow and never really caught my interest. Part of that may be because I prefer my romances without plot moppets, but, more importantly, there was nothing new, fresh, or special in J.L. Berg’s story. Clare Murray has been widowed for three years and is raising her […]
Doom
From the delightfully creepy and imaginative mind of Mike Mignola comes Jenny Finn: Doom. Set in London, the populace is gripped by the mysterious deaths of local whores. What no one seems to be addressing is a curious plague that is slowly overtaking the city. Down by the docks, country boy Joe sees a young girl amongst the throng of ne’er do well’s and takes it upon himself to escort her to safety. But who needs to be saved from whom? As Joe dashes after […]
Great tell-it-like-it-is legal tale with just the right mix of humor and courtroom hijinx
A late work that hadn’t caught my eye before, The Litigators brought me hurtling back into the Grisham fold. This book offers a fast-moving and painfully realistic story about mass tort litigation, along with a satisfying array of characters, and just enough laugh-out-loud moments and real-life horror stories to keep those pages turning til the end. The story opens just as young corporate lawyer David Zinc is having a full-scale panic attack on the way to his 93rd floor cubicle where he does mind-numbing financial […]