Book Reviews

S.K. Reviews The Haunting of Payne’s Hollow

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Modern Day. Payne’s Hollow, a village on the shores of Lake Ontario. We begin with a funeral. I already like it. Any book that starts with a funeral—especially a funeral where everybody agrees that the deceased was a giant pain is okely dokely with me. Even better, the reading of the will causes substantial problems for Samantha, the granddaughter of the recently deceased. It seems Sam’s father confessed to murder over a decade ago and then killed himself. In the […]

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A little magic on a summer night. Read my review and enter the giveaway. LS Delorme will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Enter at all the tour stops to increase your odds. 1944. Harrisville, a small southern town.   Veronica works at the cigarette factory and takes a side gig processing cannon fodder, er, new army recruits. Some of the recruits are black, and the small town is rife with prejudice. She meets […]

S.K. Reviews The Devil Take the Blues

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NetGalley and Hell or Highwater Books provided a free copy of The Devil Take the Blues in exchange for an honest review. Meet Me at the Crossroads The Devil Take the Blues by Ariel Slick is a Southern Gothic Song of Love and Infernal Bargains Circa 1920. The fly spot of a town called Azoma, Louisiana. Beatrice runs and owns the store she inherited from her profligate father only because she refuses to contemplate marriage, at which point the store […]

Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

Sorchia Reviews–Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

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Worth revisiting! I’m reposting this review with an update at the bottom. So, I am a PBS fanatic—If I could magically become the lady on the Masterpiece Mystery lead-in who faints on the tombstone with a faint “oooo,” I would do it! Recently, I watched Magpie Murders with enjoyment and went in search of more by the author, Anthony Horowitz. Close to Death did not disappoint. Like Magpie Murders, the timeline in Close to Death is not standard. You’ll need […]

S.K. Reviews The Woman in the Cabin by Becca Day

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Hold on to your potatoes! This book is quite a ride. Modern Day. Remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands. Let’s call her ‘Mary’ is hard at work, cooking and cleaning for Cal, let’s call him ‘her husband.’ She’s been slaving away for this guy for about ten years, satisfying his every whim and feeling his wrath if she doesn’t. I grew increasingly frustrated with Let’s-Call-Her-Mary. Seriously, a quick slice with the butcher knife in the night would have solved the […]

S.K. Reviews The Woman in the Cabin by Becca Day

S.K. Reviews Daughter of the Drowned

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Here’s a chilling read for a hot day! Daughter of the Drowned by Kerry Williams mixes Greek myth with Voodoo and trauma. Take a peek. Daughter of the Drowned is a dark and intense tale about addiction, trauma, and death. The victim of a swimming accident during which she was dead for four minutes, Lovely Timms, is obsessed with death. And, since the accident, the dead clamor for her attention. Her family thinks she’s mad, and she agrees with them, […]