Michelle McNamara stands as a legend today among true crime authors and investigative journalists for her tireless work in helping to unmask the Golden State Killer.
Though unfortunately her book about the whole case, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, was published posthumously, it provides one of the most profound and insightful examinations of a serial killer and the long investigation leading to his arrest in 2018.
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A World of All Colours
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Time is Indeed a Circle
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Traces the Life of Macondo The grand motif of human life is something we've been chasing after ever since we've had a bit of time to think about … [Read More...]
The Undeniable Heft of “Ragtime”
“Ragtime” by E.L. Doctorow – The Recurring Patterns in Life
E.L. Doctorow's Preserved Image of America Speaking for the vast majority of books, they can all be classified pretty soundly in at least one literary sub-genre, if not more, allowing us to much more easily curate what we want … [Read More...]
The Return of the Deadly Countryside
“The Guest List” by Lucy Foley – The Perfect Ruination
Lucy Foley Summons the Guests of Dishonour Wedding celebrations are meant to be a time of pure joy and regalement, an opportunity for people to come together and celebrate a supposedly lifelong unison, a beautiful … [Read More...]
The Isolated God
“Dune Messiah” by Frank Herbert – Throne of Galactic Interests
Frank Herbert Threatens House Atreides Epic sci-fi is a genre which has never ceased to capture our imagination, as evidenced by all the books and movies aiming to make use of the vast and relatively blank canvas … [Read More...]
No Time to Lose
“Now, Then and Everywhen” by Rysa Walker – The Broken Timeline
Rysa Walker Begins the Erasing of our History The question as to what exactly makes us who we are has preoccupied us to for untold generations, and I think we have more than enough different answers to … [Read More...]
The Genetic Storm of the Century
“The Pain Colony” by Shanon Hunt – Experiments of the True Believers
Shanon Hunt Conducts the Genetic Experiment As scientific progress allowed us to manipulate elements on an increasingly smaller scale, somewhere down the line, we've thrown ourselves on the path of genetic research, … [Read More...]
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“Ink and Bone” by Rachel Caine – The Pedestal of Knowledge
Rachel Caine (pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad) is no stranger to rewriting history in her many book series, and with Ink and Bone she does so once again, marking the beginning of The Great Library series.
Taking us to a world where the Great Library of Alexandria survived the test of time, we follow a young man who witnesses the unravelling of a world ruled by knowledge, considered by some to be more valuable than human lives.
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“The Sentence is Death” by Anthony Horowitz – Enemies of the Deceased
Anthony Horowitz has decided to take us back to a simpler time for straightforward murder mysteries with his Detective Daniel Hawthorne series, with the second book having seen the light of day recently, titled The Sentence is Death.
In it, we follow the detective on another curious case, this time involving the murder of a celebrity-divorce lawyer, Richard Pryce, via a bottle of wine worth three thousand pounds.
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“Thin Air” by Richard K. Morgan – Enhanced Humanity
Richard K. Morgan has been, in the past couple of decades, one of the louder and more influential voices in the lands of cyberpunk and science-fiction, penning classics still relevant today.
In 2018, to the delight of his fans around the world, he came back from an eight-year hiatus with his first science-fiction novel in a while, titled Thin Air.
Simply-explained, it follows a bodyguard to an audit team investigating the disappearance of a lottery winner on Mars… and it seems someone powerful is out to get them.
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“Coma” by Robin Cook – The Hospital without Recovery
It’s hard to believe it has already been over forty years since Robin Cook introduced the concept of medical thrillers to the world in true style, by penning his classic novel Coma which still holds up to this very day.
Following a third-year medical student, we follow her investigation into the Boston Memorial Hospital, where people seem to be dropping into comas on the operating table at a suspiciously higher rate than usual.
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“Dune” by Frank Herbert – The Spice of Power
Frank Herbert has set a milestone in science-fiction when he penned the great classic Dune, realized once into a movie by David Lynch, and soon to be on the silver screens again under Denis Villeneuve’s direction.
Set on a desert planet where the sole thing of value is the “spice” drug, the story follows a young noble boy, Paul Atreides, who loses his realm as his family is betrayed and destroyed. Thus begins his epic adventure to evolve into a figure of legends.
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“Here and Now and Then” by Mike Chen – The Fickle Rules of our Reality
Mike Chen has certainly done us book readers quite the favour when he finally dedicated himself to publishing his works, namely with one of 2019’s more prominent works of science-fiction, Here and Now and Then.
The story revolves around Kin Stewart, a time-travelling agent stuck in San Francisco in the 1990s, now with a daughter and a life for himself. Suddenly, his rescue team shows up, 18 years too late… but Kin isn’t as keen to come back home as he once would have been.
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“Street Music” by Timothy Hallinan – The End of the Line
Timothy Hallinan has accomplished the great exploit of creating characters many of us have grown attached to over the years with his Poke Rafferty Thriller series, and in the ninth novel, titled Street Music, we’re finally reaching the terminal station.
In this last outing of his, we witness Poke investigating into the disappearance of a cantankerous old gang member, all while contending with the puzzling trials of being a father and seeing his daughter maturing into a woman.
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“Master Class” by Christina Dalcher – Shedding the Pretense of Understanding
Christina Dalcher certainly isn’t content with tackling small and meaningless topics, with her second novel Master Class examining potential extreme our society might yet reach one day.
The story takes place in a society where the worth of individuals is determined by their quotient score (Q), and follows a mother’s efforts to save her daughter who gets transferred to a state boarding school hundreds of miles away after failing a monthly test.
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“The Word is Murder” by Anthony Horowitz – A Partnership with the Morbid
Anthony Horowitz is one of the busiest and most inventive writers in his country, constantly trying the push the boundaries of literary techniques for our amusement.
In The Word is Murder he once again takes a unique path, writing himself into his own novel as the sidekick and chronicler of disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne. Together, they try to unravel the peculiar case of a woman who is found dead six hours after arranging her own funeral service.
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