Hannah is a 12 year old girl whose life has been sheltered. She and her mother are care takers of a no longer used lighthouse. It has been her families job for generations. Not only are they care takers, but guardians as well. The lighthouse has a special door in it. One that leads to the underworld or City of the Dead as it is known in this tale. Continue reading
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First Class Murder
Journey back in time to Europe in the 1930’s and take a train ride on the Orient Express. Our heroines, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells, just finished school term and are taking a journey with Hazel’s father. They have been given strict instructions to avoid detecting. This is something they cannot do when a mystery lands in their laps. In order to find a murderer and a spy, they must employ their deductive reasoning skills once again even at the risk of upsetting Hazel’s father and placing themselves in danger. The title can stand alone or may be read in order with the other books in the Wells and Wong Mystery series. A recommended read for who-done-it enthusiasts.
How To Disappear
How to Disappear is a thrilling mystery told in the dual narration of the hunter (Jack) and the hunted (Nicholette). Nicholette, a popular HS cheerleader who has never been in trouble, witnesses the murder of a young woman in the woods near her house. Jack, a straight-A student athlete about to graduate from HS, is from a family of criminals. In fact, his father was a hit man and his older brother is in jail for armed assault. But once the murder occurs, Nicholette goes on the run to get away from the murderer, and Jack’s brother forces him to do what he can’t do himself: track down Nicholette and kill her. If he doesn’t, Jack’s mother’s life is in danger, as is his own.
The rest of the book is a cat and mouse game between Nicholette and Jack. There is mystery, adventure, and forbidden love.
Just Kill Me
Just Kill Me, by Adam Selzer, misses the mark. While the story starts off with the intriguing warning of the main character Megan finding the letters of D, I, and E remaining in her alphabet cereal, the rest of the premise is lacking. Megan, employed by a ghost tour company in Chicago, helps produce more ghosts by killing near-death people in a nursing home; in essence mercy killings. Implausible as this is, it’s even effective in that the murders are all talk without action: nothing is shown. This is the same problem found with the character development: there are references to bi-sexuality, but without action. This book just doesn’t engage the reader in connecting to the characters or to the plot.