From the back cover: Tenma's on the run! A wanted man, he's the prime suspect for the serial killings he's trying to stop. But he still manages to edge closer to the truth about Johan's mysterious past, and everything seems to point to a now defunct institution of East Berlin—an infamous "experimental" orphanage called 511 Kinderheim! Review: The pace is pretty slow in this … [Read more...] about Monster 3 by Naoki Urasawa: B+
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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+
The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell: A-
From the back cover: When Mary Jago donates her bone marrow to help a complete stranger, the act bonds her with the young man who lives from her transfusion. He will change Mary's life in ways she could never imagine. But every act has consequences, often unforseen. Mary's generosity returns her not only love, but also its opposite. She finds herself in danger from both the … [Read more...] about The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell: A-
The Breaker by Minette Walters: B+
From the back cover: Twelve hours after Kate Sumner's brutally murdered body washes up on the beach, her traumatized 3-year-old daughter is found wandering the streets alone. At first, the prime suspect is a young actor, obsessed with pornography. But now, the local English constable has doubts about the victim's husband. Was he really out of town when she was killed? And … [Read more...] about The Breaker by Minette Walters: B+
Innocent Blood by P. D. James: B
From the back cover: Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, exercises her legal right to apply for a copy of her birth certificate when she becomes eighteen. Although she has always had a fantasy of being the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father and now dead mother, she soon learns the shocking truth about her parents—and finds that her mother is about to be released … [Read more...] about Innocent Blood by P. D. James: B