Last year, when we discovered that amongst the residents of Rockton lived a serial rapist who would abduct a woman, fake her death (by dressing and strategically positioning the mauled and thus hard to identify corpse of another woman of roughly the same dimensions in the clothes the abductee was last seen in), hold her […]
Last year I read CITY OF THE LOST more out of duty than expectation of loving it. Armstrong writes several of my favorite urban fantasy series and has been an auto-buy author for over a decade, but I had limited success with her last mystery series (NADIA STAFFORD), so I was prepared to feel pretty […]
For those of you who don’t already know, J.D. Robb is an alternate pen name for Nora Roberts. I only read my first Nora Roberts’ book about a year ago, and was—to put it mildly—pleasantly surprised. I’d always assumed that Roberts wrote cornball Walmart paperback romances for-your-grandmother, and when I saw a new book with […]