Category: Mystery

  • REVIEW of The Face of a Stranger, by Anne Perry

    How many people in the real world actually get amnesia so badly that they can’t remember who they are or recall any of the details of their past life? Definitely not as many people as get amnesia in the literary world. Amnesia in books is used as a deus ex machina, an obvious contrivance on…

  • REVIEW of The Canterbury Papers, by Judith Koll Healey

    “This plot is ridiculous.” I was about a third of the way through The Canterbury Papers when I uttered those critical words to my husband. Eleanor of Aquitaine wanted Alais, the French princess who used to be betrothed to her son Richard, to travel to Canterbury and obtain some secret letters hidden in the altar…

  • REVIEW of Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (DVD)

    My favorite part about being home schooled was all the time I had to read. I was an avid reader throughout high school. Every time my mom found a new booklist of recommended classics, I would pore over it, find the titles I hadn’t yet read, and order them through the library. Anything under a…

  • REVIEW of The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova

    Most of the books I purchase are by authors who died a century ago, and I rarely have the desire to leaf through a contemporary bestseller. But when it comes to Elizabeth Kostova, my chronological snobbery goes out the window. She is a contemporary author who is well worth the read. I first encountered Kostova…