This novel revolves around a girl’s relationship with her grandfather, Jack, who left her in the wake of a family tragedy when she was eight years old. He returns when she is fifteen, bringing back their old, special relationship, along with a mysterious antique typewriter with a mission of its own and a tendency to shoot…
Month: November 2016
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“The Chronicles of Henry Harper” by Jacen Aster
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This book is not quite a novel, but it’s close enough to be treated as one. It is a series of short stories closely knit together by the main character and many of the supporting cast. It is a standard Space Opera: slightly melodramatic, often humorous, not overly realistic. For example, alien species are mammalian enough…
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“Madam Tulip and the Knave of Hearts” by David Ahern
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In this second book of the “Madam Tulip” series, Derry, the starving actress, continues to fight (but not very hard) against taking up her crystal ball and making financial use of her on-again-off-again psychic abilities. Once again, the story is filled with interesting characters, witty dialogue, a good deal of suspense (courtesy of Russian Gangsters…
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“At the Bottom of the Stairs,” a Blackfriar Mystery by M’lissa Moorcroft
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Cozy Mysteries: crime stories in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Well, the community in this case is an old mansion-turned-apartment building on the California coast near the Bay Area. As we expect in this genre, the building is…