*** 1/2 Part of my Mysterious USA Challenge Berkley, 1992 042513301X (ISBN13: 9780425133019) Winner, Edgar Award, 1993 A Cold Day for Murder introduces Kate Shugak, a young Aleut woman who worked in the Anchorage D.A.’s office, but has returned to her home in a fictional park in northern Alaska after a horrifying experience with a child molester. […]
Tag Archives: book reviews
August
03
Mysterious USA Reading Challenge
posted by lasesana
Inspired by an article about a writer who read books from 196 countries to broaden her horizons, I decided to challenge myself as well. Not being a native of the USA, but living here for the past 16 years, I want to read and review one mystery novel from each of the 50 states. I’m […]
August
02
Mary L. Tabor, Who by Fire
posted by lasesana
***** ISBN 0982993145 (ISBN13: 9780982993149) I absolutely LOVED this book. In fact, it has been the best book I’ve read in a long time and wished I hadn’t finished it as quickly as I did. I feel lucky to have discovered this author and can’t wait to read her next piece of work! Mary L. […]
June
25
The Button Collector, Elizabeth Jennings
posted by lasesana
***** Page Spring Publishing, 2013 ISBN-10: 1939403081 The Button Collector is a book about little things that can come to stand for big ideas and anchor us to life and to who we are. In a beautifully written novel, Elizabeth Jennings presents a woman’s history and life choices through a jar of buttons she inherited from […]
June
19
Inferno, Dan Brown
posted by lasesana
*** Doubleday, 2013 ISBN 0385537859 Robert Langdon is poised to save the world again in Dan Brown’s latest in the Langdon series, Inferno. In the highly awaited novel, Brown explores new questions while retaining his unique mix of action, history, and cutting-edge science. With Dante’s Inferno as backdrop, Dan Brown’s novel is what readers have […]
June
11
Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreight
posted by lasesana
*** Harper Collins, 2013 ISBN 006222543X I immediately downloaded this book into my Kindle because the Goodreads recommendations said something like “If you liked Gone Girl, you’re going to love this book.” I disagree. New York attorney and busy single mother, Kate Baron always thought that she and her teenage daughter Amelia had the perfect […]
June
04
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
posted by lasesana
***** Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides Knopf, 2002 ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-5627-7 “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen […]
April
30
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006
posted by lasesana
***½ Eat, Pray, Love I resisted reading this book for the longest time. I still haven’t watched the movie. It’s strange how books sometimes come to you when you are receptive. Had I started this book two years ago, I probably wouldn’t have made it through the first section. In this autobiographical book, Elizabeth is […]
March
26
The Boy in the Suitcase, Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis, New York; Soho Crime, 2011, Nina Borg #1
posted by lasesana
Original language: Danish Nina Borg is a Red Cross nurse who has trouble saying no when someone needs help- even at the expense of the people she loves most. In the first book of a series, Lene Kaaberbøl introduces Borg and hurls her into a situation where she will have to face all of her […]
February
19
Blood Meridian, or the Evening of Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthty
posted by lasesana
**** Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Author: Cormac McCarthy First Edition: 1985 Original language: English I read this book after literally dozens of people suggested it after reading my post on 10 Disturbing Novels. This book was unquestionably disturbing, but not I can’t put it down disturbing, more like I can’t […]
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