Category Archives: Mystery & Thriller

Demon Possession: an Everyday Occurrence

By Tracie | Published: January 28, 2010
I read Come Closer by Sara Gran in one day. Besides children’s books, I haven’t read a book in one day since high school. Come Closer was so completely petrifying that if I didn’t read the book in one day, I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to sleep. I had to know [...]
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Punk Chick Meets Corporate Journalist

By Tracie | Published: January 26, 2010
In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist recently convicted of libel, partners with a ward of the state, Lisbeth, to find out what happened to the niece of one of Sweden’s richest families. What seems like an impossible case takes many twists and turns as Mikael and Lisbeth [...]
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Book Review: A Circle of Souls by Preetham Grandhi

By Tracie | Published: August 27, 2009
A young girl, Janet, is murdered and another little girl, Naya, is the key to finding her murderer in Preetham Granhi’s A Circle of Souls.  Naya’s parents bring their daughter to the hospital after she nearly kills herself in a sleepwalking incident.  Naya’s doctor, Peter, tries to help the little girl, but soon realizes that there [...]
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Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

By Tracie | Published: July 28, 2009
A biographer, Margaret Lea, is asked to write the true life story of the infamous author, Vida Winter.  Vida Winter is known for giving the press and anyone who asks a story of her life that is false.  Vida, upon her deathbed, promises to tell Margaret the truth.  Behind Vida’s story are secrets that have [...]
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Book Review: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

By Tracie | Published: July 23, 2009
Sub-Title: Direct To the Punch, Weird Cover, and Odd Vampire Names Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris is the first novel in the Sookie Stackhouse novels.  Sookie, who has an uncanny ability to read minds, is a young waitress at a bar in a small Louisiana town.  In the opening of the novel, a vampire, Bill, [...]
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