Yes, another excellent episode in the Carnaki Institute’s ghost hunting A-Team of J.C. Melody and Jack. The trio are still shaken from some of what they enduredin the last book (and mourning the loss of J.C.s ghost girlfriend Kim) when the Institute’s head sends them off to the country, tasked to investigate the very odd …
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THE WILD WAYS by Tanya Huff.
Daw Paperback November 2012. I’ve always enjoyed Tanya Huff’s work ever since I purchased her first book in 1989. Her work is always well written and although now and again I don’t like one of her series, it’s never because the work is of poor quality. The Wild Ways is the second in a possible …
Elizabeth Linnington
For once this isn’t about a particular book, it’s about the author of a whole lot of them – of which I have most and am currently in the process of re-reading them all. Barbara Elizabeth Linington was an American writer of Police Procedurals, described as the Queen of Police Procedurals as she was just …
HEN OF THE BASKERVILLES by Donna Andrews.
Published St Martins Press, hardcover, July 2013. I received a nice new copy of Hen of the Baskervilles last week and read it in one gulp that night. The mixture as usual and very happily so, I like the whimsy of the series, and characters. Briefly, Meg is involved in the Virgina Un-Fair in Caerphilly, …
RESTRIKE by Reba White Williams.
Published Delos Fiction 2013. First in the Coleman and Dinah Greene series My fiction collaborator came to stay in mid July after our National annual SF Convention and gifted me with this book. It’s an excellent example of American cosy mystery, no graphic sex, very well-written, very interesting background by an author who really does …
Science Fiction Trails 10. large softcover format, June 2013. Published by SF Trails and edited by David B. Riley.
Reviewed by Steve Johnson. Lyn passed this along to me once she’d read it, I read it overnight, and yup, a review and an easy one because I like what this editor does. He seems to have almost cornered the market on that difficult crossover, western and SF. Some of the stories are a little …
Dandelions of Mars:A Tribute to Ray Bradbury. Edited By Ahmed A. Khan and Jean M. Goldstrom.
tradepaperback. Published Whortleberry Press June 2013. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. This was just a plain good anthology. I’m not much of a poetry fan so they don’t get a mention, but if you like Bradburyesque tales, then this is the go-to anthology. Marion Powell’s The Last Hotdog, is a great entry into Martian Chronicles, and …
The Trouble With Humans – Christopher Anvil, edited Eric Flint.
paperback , published Baen SF, 2007. A collection with a very wide timespan. Most of the stories appeared in the 1950s-1960s in top pulp magazines, but one is dated as the end of 1990. The stories are entirely as advertised, unfortunate aliens having real trouble with humans, and they’re very funny. My favourites were Compensation, …
Still Practising by David Grant
published paperback Pocket Books 2001. I always enjoy a good vet-written book and have half a shelf of them ranging from all of the James Herriot volumes to a couple by Oz’s Dr Harry, and half a dozen by Hugh Lasgarn as well as others. And now this one, which I picked up recently, will …
THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND by Nigel Cawthorne
Published Hardcover, Piatkus 2004. Some weeks ago I read that it it illegal to enter Michigan wearing a chicken on your head. I had quite a bit to say about that which, when attending a library sale the other day, inclined me to purchase the above book. This has provided both a lot amusement and …