Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole are back into his sequel to the popular Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (which we previously reviewed HERE) When a painting goes missing from a maritime museum and a dead body is found, they're on the case under the banner of their new business as stolen antiquities hunters. The …
Continue reading The Antique Hunter’s Death On The Red Sea by CL Miller
This stunning volume is Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales From Storied Lands, one of the latest in the Gilded Nightmares Series from The British Library. I love this series and have quite a few from the collection. They feature beautiful binding and cover art, and each one contains horror or ghost stories collected around a …
Liza, along with her younger sister, grew up spending Summers in Provincetown, where their mother would go to work and hope to catch the eye of a wealthy man. Liza's father was almost totally absent, and her mother was most likely a narcissist, but definitely abusive. Because of this, Liza was drawn to a woman …
Continue reading The Babysitter: My Summers With A Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan
In this young adult novel, Romeo and Juliet meets 1920's Shanghai, with a little dark magic twist. Juliette Cai is from the Scarlet Gang, who have fought with the White Flowers for generations. Roma Montagov was her first love, but now they hate each other. When series of mysterious deaths break out with people clawing …
Georgina's little boy has a new imaginary friend. But there's something wrong about this friend. For a start, he calls her New Granny, which is strange and uncomfortable because Georgina is still reeling from the death of her mother. She is also under a lot of pressure with work, study, and some relationship problems. When …
While sorting through her mother's house following her death, Becky finds a letter from a long lost relative asking for help. Rather than returning home, and feeling like she wants to do something that makes her feel useful, she heads to Cornwall to help out her mother's Cousin Olivia. As Becky's life catches up with …
I loved Corduroy bear when I was a kid. The book A Pocket For Corduroy was a favourite bed time book of mine, where he accidentally gets lost at the laundromat and goes on a little adventure. I didn't realise that he was a bit of an institution, a wise and funny little fellow who …
In Paris, the flame haired, green eyed Violaine is the head of the Reading Room, a place where books are sent to be considered for publication. When a book called Sugar Flowers is chosen, it becomes a sensation, but the author appears to have gone missing. And there may be a connection between the book, …
When Natsuki is a child, she believes that her toy hedgehog is an alien and wants her to save the planet using magic. When she tells her beloved cousin, he is a life line who understands her and tells her his secret, he's also an alien. We come to understand that this story helps them …
Will has left his life of crime behind and started over. But his past isn't willing to let him go. When his daughter returns to the house covered in blood and with a strange package drawing him back into the underworld of forged rare books, he knows his nemesis Henry Slader has returned. This time …
CravenWild 