The Garden of Lost Memories by Ruby Hummingbird

If someone had even brought up the topic of how many variations of an old woman and an unlikely child who brings her happiness could successfully be written, I would have said one or two. With this book, I realise I may have been off in my estimations. This not the first of its type…

Open Carry and Stone Cross by Marc Cameron

I have had this on my virtual shelf for over a year. I finally read it when I saw that it had a second book releasing in March. This may seem an odd thing to do when I did not actually manage to sit and read the first one quickly. The fact of the matter…

The Confessions of Jonathan Flite and the Release of Jonathan Flite by Matthew J. Beier

This is the oldest book on my NetGalley list, and I finally got around to reading it. The strange fact is not how long it took for me to get to this and read it thoroughly but that the deeper I got into the story. It went from a book I almost gave up on…

The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell #6) by John Dickson Carr

I requested this book long before I was recommended quite a few of the Golden Age fiction books. I picked this solely because I had seen the author in my reading of The Detection Club 1 & 2 by Jean Harambat. I have also read quite a lot of reviews of his books. I chose this…

Don’t Look Down (Shadows of New York #2) by Hilary Davidson

The situation outside is not really very good, and although we in HK have been in the precautionary state since mid-Jan, recently we have seen a tremendous surge of cases. A massive chunk of these are people who have come 'back' from other countries currently suffering a more significant number of cases, and they seem…

Lost at Sea by Erica Boyce

I really enjoyed another book by this author, The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green mostly for the uniqueness of the storyline. I saw this coming out and was intrigued enough to pick it up! This title is symbolic in some ways, there is the actual sea, and the metaphorical one as people contemplate their roles in…

Thief River Falls by Brian Freeman

Narrator: January LaVoy This started in a deceptively ordinary fashion. It had the right ambience of gloom and in the weather which suited the story. Our leading lady is a famous author and local celebrity, Lisa Power. Her life is sad and lonely when she finds a boy in her shed. The boy says that…

Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer

Every time I see the first in a series, especially with more promised to come, my eyes perk up, and I almost automatically request an opportunity to get my hands on it. Sometimes I am rewarded for this impulse, but most often, I am not. In this case, I was glad that it was the…