I've been very satisfied with my Booksirens review service. It's effective at gathering a wide array of reader-types to get an honest consensus at a very affordable price. The quality of the reviews varies greatly, but they're generally good at summarizing the strengths/weaknesses and describing the genre and style. One of my favorite reviews was… Continue reading Review for Vampire
Brian Flynn's Fear and Trembling is an entertaining murder mystery with perhaps a bit more of the procedural about it than most of the books I read. Its primary strength is the personality of our Detective Anthony Bathurst who approaches his job with nary a hint of the tortured mentality afflicting so many brilliant sleuths.… Continue reading Fear and Trembling (along with a 2020 wrap up)
"...see everything, boys, I mean everything, the sex mystery exposed, red hot, sex in the raw, everything explained, plain down to earth unadorned, right before your very eyes, now it can be told, what papa did to mama, one dime only one dime, come and see for yourselves, the mystery of sex, only for a… Continue reading For readers who like it rough: Madball (1953)
Seishi Yokomizo's The Honjin Murders is a bloody locked-room whodunnit containing a lot of the typical tricks of our favorite murder mysteries. Like the best of the genre, it carries with it the somber feeling of old wounds causing present-day murder while still being self-aware enough to discuss it's own genre playfully. (I don't even… Continue reading The Honjin Murders
It may not be the one we were expecting, but here's hoping yours is joyous nonetheless. I hope you all choose a delightful murder mystery and an equally delightful place to curl up and read it. Mine will be The Honjin Murders which I ordered 57 years ago and has only recently arrived in the… Continue reading Merry Christmas
