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Cold Fire by Dean Koontz

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

Summary: The classic story of reporter Holly Thorne, who is intrigued by the strange, quiet Jim Ironheart. Jim has saved 12 lives in three months, and now Holly’s falling in love with him. But what power compels an ordinary man to be a hero? My take: 3 looks ...

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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

Summary: ‘What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who...

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

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

Summary: In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all....

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...

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

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

Summary: In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her...