Before he Kills (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 1) In the cornfields of Nebraska a woman is found murdered, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn’t take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose—and that his spree has just begun. Detective Mackenzie White,…
Category: English Book Reviews
Book Review | Cause to Kill | Blake Pierce
Cause to Kill (An Avery Black Mystery—Book 1) Homicide Detective Avery Black has been through hell. Once a top criminal defense attorney, she fell from grace when she managed to get a brilliant Harvard professor off—only to watch him kill again. She lost her husband and her daughter, and her life fell apart around…
Book Review | The Next Girl | Carla Kovach
The Next Girl (Detective Gina Harte #1) by Carla Kovach Deborah Jenkins pulls her coat around her as she sets out on her short walk home in the pouring rain. But she never makes it home that night. And she is never seen again… Four years later, an abandoned baby girl is found wrapped…
Book Review | Knots and Crosses | Ian Rankin
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders…and he’s tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain’s elite SAS. Now he’s an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores…
Book Review | The Midnight Club | James Patterson
The Midnight Club by James Patterson ‘Are you from the Midnight Club?’New York cop John ‘Stef’ Stefanovitch was left widowed and wheelchair-bound after local crime boss ‘the Grave Dancer’ brutally shot him and his wife. Now, Stef’s looking at the Grave Dancer’s shattered body in a high-end Manhattan brothel. Before his murder, the Grave…
Book Review | The Last Widow | Karin Slaughter
The Test by Nathan Leaman A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who’s been vanished into thin air. A devastating explosion One month later, the serenity…
Book Review | The Test | Nathan Leaman
The Test by Nathan Leaman ‘If all you know is cricket, then cricket will break you . . .’ It is the final Test match of The Ashes. A nation expects, and the rest of the cricketing world is watching. Fast-paced, humorous and candid, The Test follows the battles on and off the field as stand-in England…
Book Review | Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig | Stephen Krensky
Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig Abe Lincoln is on his way to give an important speech when he comes across a pig stuck in the mud. If he stops to help the pig, he’ll get his brand-new suit dirty. But young Abe can’t stand to see an animal in trouble. What should…
Book Review | Rodrik Rules | Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2 | Jeff Kinney
Rodrick Rules Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 2 by Jeff Kinney Secrets have a way of getting out, especially when a diary is involved. Whatever you do, don’t ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn’t want to talk about it. As Greg enters the new school year,…
Book Review | Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1 | Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg. He finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. Greg is happy to have Rowley Jefferson, his sidekick, along…