Book News and Reviews

Author: Heather Graham
Book: Deadly Night
Genre: Murder Mystery/Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Julia Comments: I finally am getting around to reviewing Deadly Night by Heather Graham as I promised for horror month.  Deadly Night is the first in The Flynn Brother’s Trilogy and I, for one, enjoyed it.  The book contains murder, suspense, mystery and the supernatural.  It’s one of […]

Author: Charlaine Harris
Book: Dead Until Dark
Genre: Horror/Murder Mystery/Romance
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: Dead Until Dark is a cute and funny vampire romance/mystery.  I think it’s a little silly to call any vampire book “horror”, but from what I can tell, that’s how the bookstores classify it, so I put the mad combination up there in the […]

Author: Kathy Reichs
Book: Devil Bones
Genre: Murder Mystery/Thriller
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: I screwed up on this one… it’s not horror at all! However, I recommend it if you like the TV series Bones, because it’s a Temperance Brennan novel (she’s the main character of the TV show). Temperance is a forensic anthropologist that helps solve murders by […]

Author: Carolyn Walker
Book: Deadly Harvest
Genre: Mystery/Murder Mystery
Julia Rating: 7
Comments: This is the story of a female police detective moving to a small town where “nothing ever happens”, only to find murder, deceit and deadly intentions.  At first, it reminded me of Hot Fuzz, with a hot-shot British cop moving to a tiny little town and […]

Book: The Merlot Murders
Author: Ellen Crosby
Genre: Murder Mystery
Julia Rating: 10
Comments:  This book is a masterpiece of imagry.  I’ve never been to the South, but this book made me see, feel and almost taste the air, the sunsets and the Blue Ridge Mountains.  If you love wine, curl up with this book and have a glass.
The […]

Book:Ten Little Indians
Author: Agatha Christie
Genre: Murder Mystery 

Julia Rating: 10 out of 10 

Comments: Grahame commented ages ago, asking me to do a review of one of Agatha Christie’s brilliant works Ten Little Indians aka And Then There Were None. I’ve named this post Ten Little Indians because that’s the title I read it under several years […]

The Book: The Secret of Chimneys
The Author: Agatha Christie
Julia Rating: 8 out of 10
My Comments:
I am a huge Agatha Christie fan, and I love that this one isn’t a Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot book - I like to shake things up every once in a while. This book was fantastic. I don’t really like […]