I badly need to catch up with writing reviews, but don’t really have the inclination to write long and individual reviews for books that were mostly ‘meh’. I sometimes pick up thrillers when I need a break from fantasy, and this review covers several that I’ve read since the early summer, in order that I read them. In some cases I have to cast my mind back rather a long way–and some definitely made an impression more than others. Most of these I read pretty […]
“I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.”
Somehow, despite an oeuvre of over a dozen books, I have never read a Karin Slaughter novel. I suspect this will change as CBR10 progresses as The Good Daughter was a gripping read with a quality twist ending. Charlie and Sam Quinn’s mother was murdered by two men who broke into their home in hopes of robbing their father. When their father, Rusty, was nowhere to be found the pair of deviants killed the girls’ mother, Gamma, and shot Sam in the head while Charlie ran for […]