Crime/Mystery/Thriller Archives

14 by Peter Clines

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy, SciFi

Summary: Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his...

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Summary: A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that...

2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, precocious nine-year-old and an aspiring jazz singer. As she mourns the recent death of her mother, she doesn’t realize that on Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day—and night—of her life. After...

666 Park Avenue by Gabrielle Pierce

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: What if your mother-in-law turned out to be an evil, cold-blooded witch . . . literally? Ever since fabulously wealthy Malcolm Doran walked into her life and swept her off her feet, fledgling architect Jane Boyle has been living a fairy tale. When he proposes...

77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse – and was rumored to be more than half mad – after his wife and two children disappeared in 1897 and were never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when...

A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: 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 uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of...