First in the Blackbird Files, in which detectives from both the USA and the UK, and FBI members work together to identify who is setting up and urgingFirst in the Blackbird Files, in which detectives from both the USA and the UK, and FBI members work together to identify who is setting up and urging the torture and killing of innocents in both France and Scotland as well as other parts of the UK.
It's bad enough that it occurred in the USA; now it seems to have morphed into other murder scenes, each gruesome, even when potential victims are found before they bleed out.
But will Luke Kendrick of the FBI and Special Agent Carly MacDonald be successful in their quest to identify the killer behind all these murders? Even with an engaging ghost or two in Scotland?...more
A school that isn't a school comes too close to what seems to be going on throughout the country as libraries are attacked and/or closed and reality iA school that isn't a school comes too close to what seems to be going on throughout the country as libraries are attacked and/or closed and reality is turned on its head with drug-induced lies designed to create followers who will do anything that their new "god" tells them to do. And all with an eye toward creating automatons out of children.
Not the kind of tale I was expecting or enjoyed....more
If you fear being drawn into a story filled with horror, do not read this book. I wasn't exactly expecting it when I picked it up, thinking it was a lIf you fear being drawn into a story filled with horror, do not read this book. I wasn't exactly expecting it when I picked it up, thinking it was a less jolting murder mystery with a touch of romance. Nevertheless, this story, sprinkled with all manner of British slang and sayings features detective Kate Hamblin and what happens after she sees an explosion of the police van in which two of her colleagues are ensconsed while waiting to arrest an arsonist. Instead of catching him, they are killed in the conflagration of that van.
What follows is a whodunit and a howdunit that is gripping even as it occasionally, particularly near the end, becomes stomach-turning, too. Mine, at least.
What remains to be seen is if she will ever catch the bad guy who really is bad and not in a good way....more
In a word, this book is wierd. Perhaps because it was something I never really expected. The cover suggested danger, as did the title, but I didn't exIn a word, this book is wierd. Perhaps because it was something I never really expected. The cover suggested danger, as did the title, but I didn't expect to read about immortals or (non)people doing bad things to humans.
The story begins with an almost-suicide culminating from a year of nearly-constant bullying of the protagonist. That pulled me in, but what kept me reading was the hope that she would get out from under another form of bullying that she then endures when she's saved from jumping.
There's a love story embedded in the gore, but it was less understandable that I hoped and now I'm wondering how to get the really bad scenes out of my head. Be warned before you begin this tale....more