Another Scandinavian “must-read” mystery, this complicated tale is set in and around Oslo. The killer’s trademark is a snowman – placed outside the home of the victim, sometimes using parts of the victim in the design, as well as other creative means to communicate the theme. Harry
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If this book is about anything, I surely don’t know what it is. Confined to his home for ten days with a host of his closest friends and family, Max engages in conversations about war, love, family, filmmaking and, well ... everything.
A Million Suns, the sequel to Beth Revis’ best-selling Across the Universe, starts three months after the action of Across the Universe.
Sweet title, not a sweet story. Vanessa Diffenbaugh has used the Victorian dictionary of flower meanings to create a story filled with the harsh reality of life for a foster child. Victoria Jones has just been emancipated – out on her own after shuffling from foster families to group homes for 18 years.
In this second book of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Last Survivor Trilogy, we are brought back to the start of the cataclysmic events of her first novel Life as We Knew It. However, in this book the story is told from the point of view of Alex Morales, a sev
Set in a world resembling medieval Russia, Plain Kate starts with small and ugly Kate Carver, who must watch her beloved father die. He has witch’s fever, and soon, an anti-magic hysteria grips the land. The gypsy-like Roamers are persecuted, people are burned. And even Kate herself
Dominance, by Will Lavender is a quintessential mystery through and through. The novel takes place in two different time periods, 1994 and the present day, and Lavender is able to carefully keep both narratives exciting in this literary mystery novel.