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Uncaged by John Sandford and Michele Cook – Review
Posted on July 22, 2014 | No CommentsBook Jacket: #1 New York Times bestselling Prey author John Sandford and Michele Cook debut a high-octane young adult thriller series. Shay Remby arrives in Hollywood with $58 and a […] -
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley – Review
Posted on January 22, 2014 | No CommentsBook Jacket: On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost […] -
Speaking From Among The Bones by Alan Bradley – Review
Posted on February 7, 2013 | No CommentsBook Jacket: From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable […] -
I Am Half-Sick Of Shadows by Alan Bradley – Review
Posted on December 27, 2012 | No CommentsBook Jacket: It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce – an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving – is tucked away in her […] -
Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch – Advance Review
Posted on July 19, 2012 | 1 CommentBook Jacket: It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher – and the victim’s […] -
City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley – Review
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsBook Jacket: February, 1940. In San Francisco’s Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money […] -
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley – Review
Posted on July 12, 2011 | 1 CommentBook Jacket: Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons […] -
Poirot XI: Three Act Tragedy – review
Posted on June 18, 2011 | 2 CommentsWatch the full episode. See more Masterpiece. Review: It is always a pleasure to watch David Suchet embody Hercule Poirot, mustache and ego fully in evidence, little grey cells afire, […] -
First Look at Case Histories
Posted on June 4, 2011 | No CommentsI am supremely jealous of everyone in the U.K. right now, because as of tomorrow they get to feast their eyes on Case Histories, the BBC’s new crime drama starring […] -
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (US version) – trailer
Posted on June 1, 2011 | 1 CommentHonestly, I don’t think I’ll ever get over this movie’s lack of Noomi Rapace (to me, Noomi IS Lisbeth), but hey, it is a David Fincher movie. You can always […]