# Genre: Mystery, Space Opera, Adventure, Space Fantasy
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
# Publication Date: November 12, 2008
# ISBN-10: 1597800937
# ISBN-13: 978-1597800938
# Author’s Website: Matthew Hughes
One of the most unusual novels you may encounter, The Spiral Labyrinth by Matthew Hughes, mixes fantasy, science fiction, and mystery to tell a tale fit for a [...]
Posts under ‘Mystery’
Book Review: The Spiral Labyrinth by Matthew Hughes
Magazine Review: ResAliens Issue #1
For some time, Residential Aliens (known colloquially as ResAliens) has produced “spiritually infused speculative fiction” with the intent of acknowledging that in humankind exists a penchant for the spiritual that is not often reflected in much science fiction or fantasy in any real depth or with a true acknowledgment of this aspect of the human [...]
Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer
# Genre: Thriller, Mystery
# Hardcover: 384 pages
# Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
# Publication Date: February 16, 2010
# ISBN-10: 031258749X
# ISBN-13: 978-0312587499
# Author Website: Michael Palmer
In Michael Palmer’s latest medical thriller, The Last Surgeon a former army surgeon suffering from PTSD named Nick Garrity (aka Nick Fury) and Gillian Coates, a smart and sassy nurse, must [...]
Book Review: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
# Genre: Literary Fantasy, Adventure, Comic Fantasy
# Hardcover: 400 pages
# Publisher: Viking Adult
# Publication Date: December 29, 2009
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0670019631
# ISBN-13: 978-0670019632
# Author Website: Jasper Fforde
Color adds beauty to the world around us. Without green grass and blue sky all would be drab and grey. But what if our entire society were [...]
TV Review: Castle Season 1
# Genre: Mystery, Humor
# Actors: Stana Katic, Nathan Fillion, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever
# Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
# Number of discs: 3
# Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
# Studio: ABC Studios
# DVD Release Date: September 22, 2009
In Castle, bestselling mystery author Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), is brought in on a case where [...]
Book Review: The King’s Daughters by Nathalie Mallet
# Genre: Mystery, Sword and Sorcery
# Paperback: 384 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
# Publication Date: July 15, 2008
# ISBN-10: 1597801356
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801355
# Author Website: Nathalie Mallet
French-Canadian author Nathalie Mallet has set herself a difficult challenge. Her novels, The Princes of the Golden Cage and the just released The King’s Daughters not only are written [...]
Book Review: Stalking the Unicorn by Mike Resnick
* Genre: Urban Fantasy, Mystery
* ISBN: 1591026482
* ISBN-13: 9781591026488
* Format: Paperback, 310pp
* Publisher: Pyr
* Pub. Date: August 28, 2008
* Author Website
Stalking the Unicorn, by multiple fantasy award winner Mike Resnick, is Alice in Wonderland for the modern age. John Justin Mallory is a Sam Spade wannabe, a private detective out on his luck. His wife [...]
Book Review: The Excalibur Murders by J. M. C. Blair
* Genre: Historical Mystery
* ISBN: 0425222535
* ISBN-13: 9780425222539
* Format: Paperback, 320pp
* Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
* Pub. Date: July 2008
I think the last time I stopped reading a book, just put it down and walked away with no desire to return to it, ever was in high school. I am not known for giving up on [...]
Book Review: The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
* Genre: Urban Fantasy, Mystery
* ISBN: 0061375381
* ISBN-13: 9780061375385
* Format: Hardcover, 368pp
* Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
* Pub. Date: February 05, 2008
“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It is a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and willfully bizarre. Needless to say, I [...]
A Year of Reading 2007
The Year is Done! I hope you had a great one and have high hopes for 2008. Below is a list of all the books I read in 2007 (I like to keep track because I am just that hyper-organized). The final five have reviews written that I just haven’t posted because every review deserves [...]
