The last two years have been hard on Cyrus and Antigone Smith. Together with their older brother Daniel, they’ve had to abandon their home in California and move to a decrepit roadside motel where nothing ever happens. Until the strange tattooed man arrives and demands a specific room. A few hours later the tattooed man…
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Review: The Clockwork Scarab
Vampire hunting and mystery solving are not ideal occupations for the well-bred Victorian lady; unfortunately for Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes, there’s no escaping the family business. When young women in their social circle start disappearing, these two barely-friends must put aside their differences and rely on each other to solve the mystery of the…
Review: The Intern’s Handbook
If you work a company that hires interns, think carefully: can you remember their names? Probably not. And why should you? Interns are there to fetch coffee, deliver packages, and do all the grunt work no self-respecting salaried employee would. And that’s just the way they like it. An invisible intern is ignored, underestimated —…
Review: Déjà Dead
Dr. Temperance Brennan believes in justice, particularly for those who cannot speak for themselves. As the resident forensic anthropologist at Montreal’s Laboratorie de Médecine Légale, it’s her job to identify skeletal remains, giving them names and causes of death. When a set of neatly dismembered female remains is discovered stashed in plastic bags, Temperance uncovers…
Review: Heads in Beds
Fresh out of college with a degree in Philosophy, Jacob Tomsky wasn’t exactly what you’d call hireable. After a few stumbles he ended up at the bottom of the food chain as a valet parker for a luxury hotel in New Orleans. Some would call his rise through the hospitality industry meteoric; Tomsky is more…