Category Archives: mystery

Book Review: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Rachel

Don’t be seen.  Don’t be heard.  You don’t exist. Imagine a world in which these are your commands. For Luke, this is reality. The population is being controlled, limiting the number of children allowed in one family, by the government in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: High Country by Nevada Barr

Posted on October 8, 2011 by cosette.ratliff

Nevada Barr does it again. And again. And again! Anyone who’s ever read a Nevada Barr book will tell you that National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is one of the best sleuths to grace a mystery book. She’s a law … Continue reading →

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Book Review: In the Shadow of Gotham

Posted on September 3, 2011 by brenda

An award-winning first crime novel by Stephanie Pintoff Detective Simon Ziele is a police detective in New York City where his fiancee is tragically killed in the General Slocum ferry disaster of 1904.  Leaving the city to escape painful memories, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan

Posted on June 25, 2011 by victor.kralisz

Fans of hard-nosed mystery series caught on early that S. J. Rozan was the real thing. Since the mid 90’s she’s been giving us the adventures of two unlikely private investigators, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin. Smith is older, street … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Sound Recording)

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Rachel

Victorian England greets Tessa Gray, come from America to join her brother and only relative, in very strange ways.  Within moments of disembarking from her journey, she is taken captive and soon forced into a world she could scarcely have … Continue reading →

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