Book Review: I Know my Name by C.J. Cooke
Eloise Shelley is a young mother and political activist who goes missing from her home in the UK without a trace. Her workaholic husband comes back to the house to find her gone, their four-year-old son and newborn baby girl left behind, along with her purse, cell phone and car. Where is she? I couldn’t…
Book Review -‘Our Kind of Cruelty’ by Araminta Hall
Rarely has a book ever creeped me out quite this much. Such a simple problem, a guy that is way too in to you, can become a nightmare of epic proportions. And in Our Kind of Cruelty, Araminta Hall takes this to the nth degree, while throwing in some not too subtle commentary on society’s…
Interview with Elle Wild
ELLE WILD grew up in a dark, rambling farmhouse in the wilds of Canada where there was nothing to do but read Edgar Allan Poe and watch PBS mysteries. Elle Wild’s debut novel, Strange Things Done, is a double Arthur Ellis Award Winner. In 2017, she won “Best First Novel”, presented by Kobo, and in 2015 won the Arthur…
Phantom of Heilbronn
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also known as “The Woman without a Face,” stumped German law enforcement from 1993 until 2009. Her DNA was found at multiple crime scenes ranging from murder to petty theft in both France and Austria, as well as Germany. Her list of accomplices included everyone from Slovaks to Serbs, Albanians to…
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead —- Sara Gran
At first I didn’t think I’d like this book. And then I LOVED it. Claire DeWitt is world’s greatest PI, which is hard to believe since she spends a lot of her time stoned or tossing I Ching Hexagrams coins to figure out what to do next. She has been described as a cross between…
