As the title would imply, this is a light, breezy read and is the first in a series featuring an L.A. private investigator named Mary Cooper.Mary's uncle, Brent Cooper, was an aging stand-up comedian, and when he's found murdered behind a seedy comedy club, Mary is called to the scene. Mary's rea...
This is a novel with a novel idea: a group of serial killers brought together by one man, given targets to kill, as they compete against each other to see who lives, dies or ends up in prison. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work. We are drawn in, wondering how this will work out, and just beginn...
I actually really liked this book. A fast read about a young girl in Italy whose home is taken over by the Germans during WWII. Her father is sent to the front to fight for the Germans and she is left behind to care for her two younger siblings and be cook and hostess to the house of 'guests'. ...
Florence Nightmare Against a backdrop of gray skies and light mist, the Charleston Municipal Hospital appeared even bleaker than its surroundings. Inside Room 211, seven-year-old Patricia Sirrine slept in her bed. She had light yellow hair that was fanned out around her head, creating a glow ...
Calabasas was northwest of Los Angeles proper, near Topanga Canyon, and it had taken them quite awhile to get through traffic. Now, Mary sat and looked around. There were forty steel folding chairs, approximately thirty-five of which were empty. The faint smell of livestock hung in the air, along...
They could hear movement and an occasional splash. Like something big and dark was moving quietly in the liquid blackness. They knelt on the remaining edge of a wooden floor. But the floor itself had been torn out, and only a small ledge was left. The vast space below them was the house’s basemen...