Heiresses of Russ 2011
10 best books like Heiresses of Russ 2011 (JoSelle Vanderhooft): The Pale Horse, Cat Among the Pigeons, Spirits Abroad, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, The October Man, Dancing in Odessa, Midsummer's Mayhem, Bloodbath, Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance, Nightingale: London 1966
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0312981716 |
"Wickedness...such wickedness...."
The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes. "Stopped....It must be stopped....You will...."
The priest spoke with reassuring authority. "I will do what is necessary. You can trust me."
Father Gorman tucked the list...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0425205967 |
3 stars for this slow moving triple homicide mystery which I didn't like as much as others. When I first began this challenge a fellow Goodreads member, paulie, predicted that I would probably solve a case by August! But I was bowled over that I actually had both of the suspects figured out early on the book....
| Author | Zen Cho |
| ISBN | 9670374987 |
"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always clear. In the forest there is not a big gap between the two."
A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating...
In a word, ghastly.
In the books own words :
In ordinary kissing one aligns one's lips with the kissee's lips, and presses them together, but in well - i can't think of a better term - in sex kissing the insides of one's mouth is involved, and it is quite difficult to make it so the respective...
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 1473224314 |
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1932195122 |
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky is a recent Russian immigrant and rising poetic star. Despite the fact that he is a non-native speaker, Kaminksy's sense of rhythm and lyic surpasses that of most contemporary poets in the English language....
| Author | Rajani LaRocca |
| ISBN | 1499808887 |
"A delectable treat for food and literary connoisseurs alike." Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
"What a wonderful, intriguing, and magical book. And wow, did it ever get my tastebuds going! Each time I picked it up, I felt the urge to head to my kitchen. . . . What I loved most was the smartness of...
Harrietta Lee has a friend who can see the future, and she's just gone missing.
She's not the only one. There are too many disappearances to count, and Harry can't be everywhere at once--which is why she's enlisting the help of a fumbling, fedora-clad detective, a programmer who moonlights...
Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance
| Author | Jason Sizemore |
| ISBN | 1937009785 |
Resistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle...
Part of the Peter Grant series, where there's a special task force in London that deals w/ all the things that go bump in the night, that ordinary coppers aren't equipped to handle. Start with Rivers of London. While this is numbered as #0.5, it won't make any sense until you've at least read the first book.
Entirely,...
Reynolds – Florence, Az. 2014
FBI agent Kimberley Reynolds is in Florence, Arizona to interview a murderer. Her task is to find out if there is something supernatural about the case.
Moments is a term used by Ben Aaronovitch for very short works of fiction, that he doesn't like to call short stories. He adds that they are not...
Tobias Winter - Meckenheim 2012
I have only just finished the first two volumes in the Moments series. Both are incredibly short, but I am very happy that we get those glimpses at all. While the first one was rather irrelevant, albeit nice, this one had actual substance. I read the main series over the course of a few years and must admit...
Mystery writer Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach -- deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut.
From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery...
It’s October half-term, and Dylan Kershaw’s dreams of a reunion with Leo, the gorgeous boy he met over the summer, are dashed when his sports-mad dad whisks him off to football camp in Manchester instead. What’s worse, dancer Leo seems to be too busy practicing his pirouettes to care. At least...
Disgraced witch Harrietta Lee has made a lot of mistakes in her life; there's a reason she's got a sizable burn scar slapped across the side of her neck and a formal letter of excommunication from the international underground magical community. But who has time to dwell on the past when you're trying...
The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man
| Author | Rod Duncan |
| ISBN | 0857668447 |
Ladies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man.
Elizabeth Barnabus is a mutineer and a murderer. So they say. The noose awaits in Liverpool as punishment for her crimes. But they'll have to catch her first.
Disguised...
A Duet for Invisible Strings
| Author | Llinos Cathryn Thomas |
Heledd, leader of the first violins, has been in love with her irrepressible conductor Rosemary for years.
She’s keeping a secret that means she can never be with Rosemary, but the time they spend working and performing together is enough for her – until a near miss with a speeding car forces...
A Death at the Dionysus Club
In the sequel to Lambda Literary Award-winning Death by Silver, metaphysician Ned Mathey and private detective Julian Lynes again challenge magical and murderous threats in a Victorian London not quite the city in our history books. Mathey is recruited by Scotland Yard to assist the new Metaphysical...
