From the back cover: Jo Walton crosses genres without missing a beat with this stunningly powerful alternative history set in 1949, eight years after Britain agreed to peace with Nazi Germany, leaving Hitler in control of the European continent. A typical gathering at the country estate of Farthing of the power elite who brokered the deal is thrown into turmoil when the main … [Read more...] about Farthing by Jo Walton: B-
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Between Good and Evil by Roger L. Depue and Susan Schindehette: B
From the back cover: No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds of society's most vicious psychopaths. And no one is a more towering figure in the world of criminal profilers than Roger L. Depue. Chief of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at a time when its innovative work first came to prominence, he headed a renowned team of … [Read more...] about Between Good and Evil by Roger L. Depue and Susan Schindehette: B
Someone in the House by Barbara Michaels: B+
Book description: An English Gothic mansion, transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat—a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together. But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their … [Read more...] about Someone in the House by Barbara Michaels: B+
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.: B+
From the back cover: On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of … [Read more...] about My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.: B+
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George: C+
From the back cover: Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the … [Read more...] about A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George: C+