Books
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Review: Home by Nightfall (Charles Lenox Mysteries #9) by Charles Finch
The once arm chair detective, Charles Lenox, has now successfully made the big shift to being in ‘trade’ with his detective agency and partners. Things seem to be going well for Lenox, Dallington, and Polly….they have after all hired a ‘staff’ of detectives to help with their work load, but their rival LeMire also threatens to take away some of their business. All of London is buzzing with the disappearance of a famous German pianist….everyone is speculating that the Yard will call in a consulting detective firm….Lenox hopes it’s his. While he waits to hear if he will be brought in, his brother Edmund is grieving the loss of his wife…
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Review: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
I am not really into horror literature or super scary stories….I haven’t read any Stephen King or V.C. Andrews because I would like to be able to sleep at night. However this Halloween season, I got inspired to pickup a ghost story. Maybe it’s because I went to watch Crimson Peak and was eager to read something similar…..but I decided to pick up The Woman in Black as I am a sucker for Gothic novels so this sounded right up my alley. Arthur Kipps is a young London solicitor who has been dispatched to the small windswept town of Crythin Gifford with its salt marshes and fog that rolls in and leaves the…
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Review: The Lake House by Kate Morton
Alice Edevane grew up in a charming lake house on Cornwall coast just after the Great War. Cornwall is a mystical place that inspires imagination and welcomes thoughts of magic. A perfect place to inspire a young girl to write. Alice always knew she wanted to be a writer and living in a large home full of people with their own ‘stories’ she couldn’t help but write them down. But one summer, the unthinkable happens….her brother disappears without a trace never to be seen again. Alice thinks she knows what happened and for the next seventy years she harbors extreme guilt. Now a successful mystery writer, Alice buries her secret deep…
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Special Feature & GIVEAWAY: TIGER’S PROMISE by Colleen Houck
It’s November and that means it’s National Novel Writing Month! For those of you social media savvy readers out there you will notice the hash tag #NaNoWriMo all over Twitter and Facebook and that’s what the hash tag is all about….National Novel Writing Month! In honor of #NaNoWriMo I am spotlighting an author whose books I absolutely LOVE and she happens to be from my hometown of Salem, OR. Colleen Houck’s Tiger’s Curse series has been an absolute favorite of mine since I read the first book! She has come out with a Tiger’s Curse novella called TIGER’S PROMISE! I am thrilled to be able to offer an e-copy of this…
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Cover Reveal & GIVEAWAY: Immortal Descendants Series by April White
Cover reveal day is finally here for The Immortal Descendants Series by April White! What do you guys think? They were designed by Penny Reid. Be sure to enter the giveaway listed below! We are celebrating the 3 year publication anniversary of MARKING TIME with a brand new look for the whole series! These newly-redesigned ebooks and paperbacks are now available to order at Amazon, and I am giving away a signed set, plus a $50 Amazon gift card and signed copies of Truth or Beard, by Penny Reid, and The Scribe, by Elizabeth Hunter (see giveaway below). THE BOOKS Marking Time is currently FREE for all e-readers! → Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1LS9PFD…
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Special Feature: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE IMMORTAL DESCENDANTS SERIES by April White
We are celebrating the 3 year publication anniversary of MARKING TIME with a brand new look for the whole series! The big over reveal is coming on 11/1 so be watching for a post on Sunday! But if you simply can’t wait until then….here is a little preview! These newly-redesigned ebooks and paperbacks are now available to order at Amazon, and I am giving away a signed set, plus a $50 Amazon gift card and signed copies of Truth or Beard, by Penny Reid, and The Scribe, by Elizabeth Hunter (see giveaway below). Marking Time is currently FREE for all e-readers! → Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1LS9PFD → Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1Mf7dkv → B&N: http://bit.ly/1P1gnpL →…
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Special Feature: The Spine Tingling Literary Canon List for Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner and this week on The Lit Bitch we are talking about the books that make you want to curl up and hide under the covers of your bed. You know those books that scare you so bad that every little noise in your house makes you jump and wonder….is there a monster under my bed??? The folks at Casper Mattresses have a great blog called Pillow Talk and they are doing a super fun ‘haunted’ feature on their blog for Halloween where they talk about spooky hotels (including the Heathman Hotel in Portland, a personal fav of mine being from Oregon and all). Casper is a great company full…
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Review: Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes by Anthony Horowitz #2) by Anthony Horowitz
Shortly after Sherlock Holmes and his adversary, James Moriarty, go over Reichenbach Falls a body is pulled from the water. American detective, Frederick Chase, rushed to Switzerland where he hopes to identify the body as Moriarty’s and ultimately recover a letter sent from notorious American criminal, Clarence Devereux. Devereux and Moriarty had planned to form a partnership that would make them the most formidable crime syndicate in Britain and America. But with Moriarty dead, that leaves Devereux holding the reigns. Chase plans to stop Devereux by any means necessary. When he arrives are Reichenbach falls he meets British detective Athelney Jones who has learned many of Sherlock Holmes’s methods of deduction. The soon…
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Review: Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd
Biographies and non fiction are always such an interesting genre for me. It must be such a challenge trying to research a person or subject so famous or well known and still be able to bring something ‘new’ to the table. Not to mention write a book that doesn’t read like a boring history timeline with a bunch of dates and milestones in a person’s life. So I am always intrigued when non fiction and/or biographies come across my nightstand for review, if the person or subject interests me I usually give it a go. Wilkie Collins has been a very interesting literary figure for me since I read Drood by…
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Spotlight Feature: MARGARET KERR MYSTERY SERIES
Please join Margaret Kerr as she tours the blogosphere for her Margaret Kerr Mystery Series, from October 12-23, with HF Virtual Book Tours, and enter to win one of three (3) Sets of A TRUST BETRAYED and THE FIRE IN THE FLINT in eBook! A Trust Betrayed (Book One) “Thirteenth-century Edinburgh comes off the page cold and convincing, from the smoke and noise of the tavern kitchen to Holyrood Abbey under a treacherous abbot. Most enjoyable.” —THE LIST In the spring of 1297 the English army controls lowland Scotland and Margaret Kerr’s husband Roger Sinclair is missing. He’d headed to Dundee in autumn, writing to Margaret with a promise to…