Review: A Hoe Lot of Trouble

A Hoe Lot of Trouble Nina Quinn #1 Mystery, Published 2004 Read May 2011 3.5/5 Book Blurb: There’s a serpent loose in Nina’s garden … Nina Colette Ceceri Quinn’s business, Taken by Surprise — a landscaping firm specializing in surprise garden makeovers — is the only thing in her life that seems to be thriving. [...]

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Review: Sworn to Silence

Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo Kate Burkholder #1 Thriller, Published 2009 Received review copy from LibraryThing Early Reviewers, but listened to audio Challenges: Thriller & Suspense, Series IV, Audio Book Challenge Read Nov 2010, 11hours 43 minutes (unabridged) Verdict: 2.8/5 First Line: She hadn’t believed in monsters since she was six years old, back [...]

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Review: The Masque of the Black Tulip

The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig The Pink Carnation Series #2 Historical Fiction/Romance/Mystery, Published 2005 Challenges: Series Challenge IV Read: September 2010, 429 pp. Verdict: 4/5 Book Blurb: Modern-day graduate student Eloise achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked one of history’s greatest spies, the Pink Carnation, who saved [...]

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Review: The Tale of Halcyon Crane

The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb Gothic Fiction/Mystery/Suspense, Published 2010 Read May 2010 Challenges: Thriller & Suspense Reading Challenge, Time Travel Reading Challenge Shelf Life: N/A – I read this one immediately!! 5/5 First Line: “I was the only passenger on the ferry crossing to Grand Manitou Island.” Book Blurb: When a mysterious [...]

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