Note: This review was of an ARC, or advance reader copy, of Murder and Mayhem by Rhys Ford. At the time of the review, the book was not yet available on Amazon.com, so the link leads to the author’s profile page. The book is expected to be released June 5, 2015. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at3OFycpRMQ&w=560&h=315] Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! All the way from the drunken recesses of their minds, a review brought to you by Katinka and Patinka, the Mysterious Bearded Snark Twins. Will they love it? Will […]
It’s, like, Hitchcock-esque-ishhh…
Twins Ava and Lexi made up their sister Alicia as a scapegoat when they were children. As young adults, they use the Alicia identity to go on dates. When one of Alicia’s dates ends up dead, the alternate identity starts to take on a life of its own. Lexi starts to wonder if her own twin is a murderer, because Alicia isn’t real…is she? You can read my full review here.
“God, everywhere but here, people dye their hair right out in the open, and nobody cares…”
In a world where red heads have become scarce, a town called Scarletville treats redheads with extreme preference and all other hair colors like dirt. Felicity is one of the most popular redheads, nominated for the Miss Scarlet pageant that will save her family from ruin (Because her mom spent all their money to make her Miss Scarlet). She also has a secret: she really has STRAWBERRY BLONDE hair! Felicity has her hair dyed at the illegal underground hair salon. The owner’s daughter ends up […]
“Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people.” Indeed, Miss Pym, indeed.
When I was growing up, my mom was a bit (really, that’s an understatement) of an Anglophile. She traveled to the UK annually, she watched Masterpiece Theater every Sunday night, she was always first in line at our local art house cinema for the new Merchant Ivory movie or a Miss Marple retrospective, she knew who Hugh Laurie was WAY before House, and she always surrounded herself with a pile of “quaint” British books. Authors like Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, EF Benson, Marion Chesney, James […]