![]() Join us next on July 26th, at the Walt Branch Library (6:30 p.m.), as we discuss the historical Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel Treason at Lisson Grove by Anne Perry.įor additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings and/or other announcements of interest to mystery fans, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. ![]() Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book (and series) in a reply comment to this blog post, below. This book was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on June 28, 2012. ![]() ![]() When the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group met in June 2012, we discussed a 2008 volume in Susan Wittig Alberts’s long-running “China Bayles” series, Nightshade. ![]()
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Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. ![]() ![]() Although she hopes to achieve a loving relationship with Mr. Fox, is not only 20 years older but is also her boss, the CEO of Vogel. Connected to her father’s abandonment is Marina’s troubling pattern of romantic relationships, including a failed marriage in her 20s, and her current relationship with a 61-year-old-man who is nearly old enough to be her father. This separation left Marina to grow up without a father, and resulted in recurring, traumatic nightmares that force her to relive this abandonment again and again. Her past traumas have multiple origins, starting with her father, a medical student from India, who abandoned her and her white American mother to return his home country after completing his schooling at the University of Minnesota. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marina Singh, the novel’s protagonist, is an intensely loyal, empathetic, and talented researcher and pharmacologist in her early 40s, struggling to extricate herself from troubling romantic patterns and a traumatic past. ![]() ![]() Thinking of starting a book? Trying to finish one? WREDE ON WRITING will guide you towards that superior draft to send to agents, to publishers, and to readers. After WREDE ON WRITING, authors will have the knowledge to put their tools to better use. In her conversational tone, she gives writers the tips and tricks her experience has brought. How do I find the time to write? How do I decide when a book is finished? How do I get my book published? Wrede tackles all issues for writers, from the basic how-tos to the more advanced topics on character development and worldbuilding. ![]() ![]() Now, with brilliant insight and a sparkling wit, Wrede shows beginning writers the ropes in WREDE ON WRITING. Wrede has been a stalwart of the sci-fi/fantasy world for decades, publishing dozens of books across multiple series, storming bestseller lists and corralling accolades from critics and fans alike. Book Synopsis How do I turn an idea into a novel? How do I build a character? How do I decide how to tell a story? Patricia C. ![]() Now, with brilliant insight and a sparkling wit, Wrede shows beginning writers the ropes in Wrede on Writing. ![]() ![]() ‘In the Flesh’ is Barker doing what he does best desperate people mired in their obsessions and fantasies. That was a pleasant treat for this read, as that story is one of Barker’s best, especially considering it is more of a horror by implication instead of a straightforward horror story. The US version of the book features the story ‘In the Flesh’ first in the volume (it’s last in the UK edition), and for some odd reason, I never got around to reading ‘Babel’s Children’ the first time. Summer of 1988 gave me a break in my studies and allowed me to catch up with a lot of reading. Let’s just say I had to learn how to study if I was going to survive college. ![]() ![]() Released in 1986, I didn’t get a chance to read In the Flesh until much later, as I was deep in university work struggling to keep my GPA at a respectable number. ![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing nothing else, she falls into selling the story of her family. At the ripe old age of 30, she needs to find some way to support herself. In the many years since that horrible night, she has been living off of donations from well-wishers but she’s old news now. Libby Day is the lone survivor of a massacre that killed her sisters and mother and put her brother behind bars for committing the crime. Libby is sheltered and mean, defensive and entitled, damaged and ruined before she even had a chance to begin her life. It isn’t a good life it isn’t even a passable life. Call it a sophomore slump, but while it’s still better than most of the crap posing as thrillers these days, this one just missed the mark.ĭark Places takes us into the life of Libby Day. Her second novel, Dark Places, proves that she is fallible. In her third, the bestselling Gone Girl, her characters were less likable but her plotting was absolutely brilliant. ![]() In her first book, Sharp Objects, author Gillian Flynn brought us a deeply flawed and fragile heroine in a perilous and sadly familiar situation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The agencies in hot pursuit of Victor’s life are like oxygen. Beside him is a gorgeous damsel who cannot be trusted. He traverses across four continents running for his dear life a twisted fate I must say. Victor is assigned a job in Paris that goes horribly wrong, and he must flee. No family, no last name, and neither does he have a past life. Victor is a heartless, ruthless, efficient assassin who gets the job done. ![]() Forget all the thriller movies you’ve seen James Bond, Bourne Identity or even Jack Bauer. As the title depicts, Victor is a killer. Victor the Assassin is a Seven Part Series books with The Hunter being the first installment. His career depicts a life filled with dubious morals. Victor is depicted as an intelligent, antisocial, logical person. Victor the Assassin –The Hunter, was an instantaneous hit. Before the Victor series, The Killer was his debut novel. His bestselling novel is from a series of thriller books -Victor the Assassin. Despite his in-born violence fetishes, Tom has never caused anyone grave harm. ![]() He practices Krav Maga and keenly follows boxing tournaments. Wood has worked in a range of employment and now, he is a full-time writer. Before delving into full-time writing, Tom worked at various jobs freelance editing and filmmaking to make ends meet. Tom Wood was born and raised in Burton on Trent -Staffordshire, England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cinder owns a booth in the market place where she works as a mechanic with the family's android, Iko. Linh Cinder is a cyborg living in New Beijing, 126 years after World War IV, with her stepmother, Linh Adri, and her two stepsisters, Pearl & Peony. ![]() Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, developing a forbidden attraction. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s letumosis. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. From space, ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. ![]() ![]() NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. After viewing the interesting pass of Niagara, the author traversed the south shore of Lake Erie to the city of Detroit, and visited in the latter range Dunkirk, Erie, Cleveland, Sandusky, and other places of less note : the tour contains notices of what fell under the author's observation concerning the natural history and geogra Lawrence, from Hamilton to the Thousand Islands thence to Sacket's Harbour by water from that place by the route of great Sodus, Geneva, Canandaigua, and Eatavia, to Buffalo and from thence to Black Rock, Fort Erie, the Falls of Niagara, Queenstown, Lewiston, and the memorable fields of Bridgewater and Chippewa. Lawrence river, and down that stream to Hamilton village thence along both banks of the St. A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, made between the 2d of May and the 23d of September, 1818 the tour extends from New-York, by Albany, Schenectady, and Utica, to Sacket's Harbor, and thence through Lake Ontario, to St. ![]() |