Mystery
TSS: Catching up on Books Read & TV Shows Watched
Before I get into the actual commentaries, I wanted to welcome my brother to my blog. I ended up showing him my previous post (“Learning to Pay Attention to the Stereotypes“) because he wanted to know why I wasn’t watching Stargate Universe. Now I’m trying to get him to do at lest one guest post [...]
"Skin Folk" by Nalo Hopkinson
“Skin Folk” by Nalo Hopkinson
Publication Date: May 2008
ISBN: 9780446678032
Number of Pages: 272
The title “Skin Folk” comes from folkore. Throughout the Caribbean there are stories about people who aren’t what they seem. Skin gives these folk their human shape. Peel it off, and their true selves emerge. They take on the shapes of animals, of fantastical [...]
"Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown
“Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown
Publication Date: May 2000
ISBN: 9781416578741
Number of Pages: 736
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization – [...]
"Hartshot" by Steven F. Havill
“Hartshot” by Steven F. Havill (first in the Posodas County Mystery Series)
Publication Date: March 2000
ISBN: 9781890208295
Number of Pages: 208
Undersheriff Bill Gastner has no other life than in law enforcement–and doesn’t want one, even if hes being nudged gently toward retirement. When a car full of teens, running from a traffic stop, goes airborne into a [...]
"Storm Front" by Jim Butcher
“Storm Front” by Jim Butcher (First in the Dresden Files Series)
Publication Date: April 2000
ISBN: 9780451457813
Number of Pages: 336
Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for [...]