The Searcher
By Tana French Group Comments: Great writing, but mystery takes back stage. Very little mystery; a revery on rural Ireland. Disappointed in the ending but…
Ireland
The Temple House Vanishing
By Rachel Donohue Group Comments: No sense of time or place. So obvious what happened from the very beginning. Very cardboard characters. So flat. Teenage…
Murder in G Major
By Alexia Gordon Group Comments/Reviews: It was silly, but I enjoyed listening to it. I found the music part fascinating. Liked Gethsemane character and the…
The Holding
By Graham Norton Group Comments/Reviews: Really impressed with how he wrote. Warm and cozy every time I picked it up. Liked the characters and small…
Faithful Place
By Tana French Summary: Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place…
The Ruin
By Dervla McTiernan Summary: It’s been twenty years since Detective Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling home. But he’s never…
Christine Falls
By Benjamin Black (aka John Banville) Summary: Quirke’s pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and…
The Scholar
The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Dervla McTiernan has followed her first novel, The Ruin, with an excellent installment in…
The Ruin
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Fantastic first in series. I was very pleased to find McTiernan’s The Ruin. Tight…