Latest gem

After a long and tough week, I don’t feel much like posting, so today is a short one on my most recent book (read mystery) recommendation.

Hit Or Missus

Product description: Private Investigator Peri Minneopa is hired to investigate a wealthy, possibly cheating wife, but the wife’s girlfriends have other ideas. After all, a friend will help you move – a good friend will help you move a body.

This is the second book in the Peri Minneopa mystery series and the first one I’ve read. I loved it. Peri is not your typical wise-cracking PI, which adds a refreshing touch to the story. I enjoyed all the characters, especially Dino fan, Benny. The author brings them to life and creates wonderful relationships between them all. Her villains mingle dangerously close to her protag to where you experience the tension first hand. Clever plot and subplots. At 99c for the eBook, it’s a bloody bargain. Right, I’m off to check out Freezer Burn, the first in the Peri series. Excellent job, Gayle.

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Page Turners

Bummed to miss my school reunion last night; just couldn’t work a June trip to the UK into my schedule to attend. I hear it was a smash. Well done Janet Habgood and Chris Hale for arranging. I’ll be at the next one.

If you’re looking for good reading, here’s a couple more of my recommendations:

Lady Killer is a gripping crime thriller. Even though I found the ending a little weak, I loved the book. Martina crafts her characters so well, even the antagonist – sadomasochist, George Markham – is understandable and, to an extent, likable.

Patrick Kelly, a known villain, learns his daughter is the victim of a serial rapist and sets out for revenge. The DI understands his motivation, yet her involvement with Kelly puts her career at risk. The story shows us the dark side of London and drop us into a rough criminal world filled with violence and sex. A troubled love story expertly woven in creates an interesting balance. Highly recommended

Warden, Jack Marconi, lost his wife a year ago and it’s affecting his job at a New York Prison, so much so he doesn’t see what’s happening when a cop-killer breaks out of his prison.

The Innocent is a great read and will take you right inside Greenhaven Prison, let you witness the Attica riots and feel the raw exposure of the corrections officers. A real page turner. Loved it.

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Reading recommendations

Caraliza is so much more than a paranormal romantic mystery. The living breathe life into the dead. The dead have a message, a story they need told to the living. A menacing ghost terrorizes a family. The author’s words and style are beautiful and moving and will transport you right into the scene, right into each era. The ending is unexpected and this book stays with you long after you read it.

 

I Choose To Live is a true story of 12 year-old Sabine Dardenne’s ordeal after being kidnapped by a notorious pedophile. How she survived such a horrific time at her young age is inspirational. Her captor told her that her parents didn’t care about her, tried to brainwash her. We can all learn from the courage of children and Sabine was brave beyond her years. Her innocent request to her captor for a friend to keep her company in her dark filthy prison resulted in disastrous and incredible consequences.

Riveting read, and quite breathtaking.

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Recommendations

How will you choose the next book you read?  Most of my purchases are through recommendation from friends. A great book deserves to be talked about, doesn’t it? I think so, so every Sunday (until I run out), I’ll post a few titles I’ve recently read and raved about. I hope you check them out and enjoy them:

This week’s recommendations:

Dying For A Date, by Cindy Sample. This is a humorous mystery set in the world of real estate and dating. I enjoyed it so much I stayed up late to finish. Almost every page had a line that made me laugh. Cindy mixes with humor with homicide brilliantly. I thought I figured out the killer, delighted to discover I was wrong. Brilliant read. I highly recommend.

 

 

No Limit, by Fred Anderson; a gripping thriller set in Las Vegas, built around a poker theme with a sci-fi element. The story involves the loss of a young son to a house-fire after he has just beaten cancer. Nothing is as it seems and the action intensifies from hereon.

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