William grows up to be a good businessman, and a loving husband and father. When tragedy strikes and threatens his most precious possession, William gets a visit from a Mr. Black. Black proposes a partnership and so a very strange (some would say macabre) new venture is born.
I read a lot of books as I review books for an indie bookstore in SLC, Utah. I'm also a writer. The Mary Mac trilogy is out now.
The Nikki Doyle trilogy (Rollover, Thunderball and Ms. Scarlett) can also be found at your local indie. Excalibur - the Nikki/Mary crossover was just published.
N.B My blurbs give you just a taste of the plot. Reviews are a pretty subjective matter but the books you'll find here are books I have read and loved.
Oct 7, 2013
Bellman & Black, Diane Setterfield
Preservationist, Justin Kramon
Mortal Bonds, Michael Sears
‘The kid’, is now six years old and thriving, his autism will always be a challenge and Jason still has a lot to learn about what sets him off, but the pair are coping. Until Angie, Jason’s duplicitous ex-wife announces a visit to New York. She’s coming for a month and bringing family.
Jason has the SEC and the Feds looking over his shoulder and a softly spoken aristocrat named Castillo telling him tales of dead lawyers and bearer bonds before offering his help. But the interests Castillo represents are deadly and they’ve just made the mistake of threatening Jason’s son.
October List, Jeffery Deaver
Deaver’s tale, told in reverse, starts with murder suspect Gabriella Mackenzie being menaced by the man who kidnapped her six year old daughter and unspools from there. Gabriella’s only ally in all this is the moneyed and enigmatic Daniel Reardon, but is he dead too?
The Abominable, Dan Simmons
Everest declares war on the small team led by Reggie Bromley, herself an accomplished climber, they encounter uncooperative monks, accidents, rumours of yeti roaming the mountain, but with cutting edge technology (for 1925) they are soon into the ‘death zone’ at 28,000 ft and their recovery mission becomes a fight for survival that could one day avert a war and the only way out is to head for the summit.
The Creeps, John Connolly
Things have calmed down in the little village of Biddlecombe, sort of. Samuel is going out with the wrong girl, and he knows it. The only odd thing is the wandering statue of a long dead architect. But evil’s heart is beating in the depths of Biddlecombe’s abandoned toy shop and on opening night all hell’s going to break loose, again. Samuel and his friends are in a battle to save the multiverse from something even worse than the depths of hell.
A mapcap mash-up of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett with plenty of Monty Pythonesque humour thrown in. Horror has never been so much fun.