Archive for the ‘mystery’ Category

Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris

These books have sort of been my guilty pleasure…not at all the type I usually go for.  They are marketed as mysteries, though very few of them have struck me as truly dealing with solving an actual mystery.  The early books seemed to fit more properly in the Romance genre.  The latter books have leaned more [...]

July 26, 2011   Posted in: fantasy, mystery  No Comments

In Too Deep by Jude Watson

In general, I haven’t been posting about each of The 39 Clues books that I’ve read.  There are just too many of them, and as far as each story story goes, they are a bit ho-hum and only narrowly miss being formulaic. I decided to mention book 6, however, because it is the first one [...]

April 23, 2011   Posted in: mystery  No Comments

Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

This one is probably a good mystery book for the middle school set, but doesn’t have a lot to interest older readers.  My interest wasn’t really piqued until the end, but let me explain that beneath a cut, since that will include some spoilers.

December 15, 2010   Posted in: fantasy, mystery  No Comments

Alias Grace

I loved this book! Finally, a review of a book that I can say that about. Yay! What I absolutely loved best about this book was the unusual narrative approach. Some sections are written from a third person limited point of view, some from first person. The changing perspectives deepen the sense of mystery as [...]

July 17, 2007   Posted in: fiction, historical fiction, mystery  3 Comments