Q is for Quiet

by Carol10 Comments
Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday. Today's letter is Q. I'm going back to one I read in 2007. I didn't make any notes about it at the time, but did rate it 4 1/2 stars out of 5. The Quiet Game by Greg Iles Taking place in Natchez, Miss. The Quiet Game is flavored with the violence and seamy undertones of a Southern Gothic. After his wife's death, Penn Cage, a former Houston prosecutor and a bestselling suspense novelist, retreats to his parents' home in Natchez with his grieving young daughter. The healing process is interrupted when Cage learns that someone is blackmailing his father, a saintly family doctor who once made a lethal mistake. In tracing the source of his father's moral dilemma, Cage stumbles upon a trail of lies surrounding the unsolved murder of a black man in 1968. He determines to reopen the case, even though his antebellum hometown is smoldering with racial tension. With the...
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Teaser Tuesday

by Carol12 Comments
Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from...that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given. Please avoid spoilers! My teaser: For a month before Christmas he turns his sleuthing genius to tracking down unusual wrapping papers, fine ribbons, and artistic stickers; and he spends the last two days creating beauty. So it was that when Attorney John S. Bondling called, Inspector Queen was in his kitchen, swathed in a barbecue apron, up to his elbows in fines herbes, while Ellery, behind the locked door of his study, composed a secret symphony in glittering fuschia metallic paper, forest-green moiré ribbon, and pine cones. -pg. 286, "The Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll" by Ellery Queen, in Murder for Christmas edited by Thomas Godfrey Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of...
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Mailbox Monday (on Tuesday) and Library Loot

by Carol6 Comments
I know it's not Monday anymore, but forgive me. Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday. I got a couple in the mail this week. Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick (won at Booking Mama. Thanks, Julie!) The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (won at Peeking Between the Pages. Thanks, Darlene!) I picked up one at the library, too. Library Loot is co-hosted by Eva and Marg. Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas And one came from Barnes and Noble. We were actually Christmas shopping, but it's so hard to walk in there and not come out with something for me. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins What books found their way to your house this week?...
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Teaser Tuesday

by Carol7 Comments
Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from...that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given. Please avoid spoilers! My teaser: "If you will take your face out of the trough for a moment, lad, let's play a little game. I contend that there are three men in this room who are armed, besides myself, of course. Let's see if you can come up with the same three, without appearing to look around." -pg. 156, Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. My copy was borrowed from the library. I am an Amazon Associate.....
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O is for On

by Carol11 Comments
Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday. Today's letter is O. I gave this one 4 out of 5 stars back in August of 2007. Apparently I haven't read and don't own many books that start with the letter O, which is kind of surprising. On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark Emily Graham knows what it's like to have enemies. The pretty New York attorney--a millionaire due to a lucky stock market break--has been sued by her greedy ex-husband and stalked by a man who thinks she helped his mother's murderer escape punishment. But when she buys her great-great-grandmother's childhood home in the sleepy resort town of Spring Lake, Emily thinks her new life will be saner, even though five other young women, including Emily's ancestor Madeline Shapley, have disappeared from Spring Lake under creepy circumstances over the past century. No sooner has Emily moved in than she starts receiving frightening, anonymous messages. Worse, when she breaks ground...
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N is for Night

by Carol8 Comments
Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday. Today's letter is N. I read this one in May of 2008. It's actually the second in the series. The first is The Patient's Eyes. I'm a big Holmes fan and this fiction series takes a different twist on the original, with Doyle as the narrator and Dr. Bell as the model Holmes was based on. The Night Calls by David Pirie Inspired by the discovery that Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle attended medical school in Scotland with one of the 19th century's most notorious serial killers, David Pirie's The Night Calls reels out a grim but engrossing tale that suggests a model for Holmes's foremost adversary, Professor James Moriarty. A series of bizarre assaults on women in the brothels of 1878 Edinburgh draws the attention of Dr. Joseph Bell, a surgeon, charismatic teacher, and forensic expert who periodically applies his deductive skills to solving crimes. Together with a young Conan Doyle, his...
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