Category Archives: detectives

darkly dreaming dexter — jeff lindsay

Dex­ter Mor­gan is, on the out­side a lov­able crea­ture. He is hand­some, well behaved, has a good job as an ana­lyst with the police and has sort of a girl­friend. He could be as nor­mal as a per­son is able to. But he is not. He has a dark side, a very dark side: his Dark Pas­sen­ger. And this pas­sen­ger is a ser­ial killer, with­out emo­tions and feel­ings. But it’s also a picky ser­ial killer because he only kills other mur­der­ers. That’s what Dex­ter been thought by his fos­ter dad Harry, a police­man. Dex­ter has to abide Harry’s rules to keep him­self out of trou­ble and to look as human as he can.
But trou­ble he is in: another ser­ial killer is on the loose and along the way Dex­ter notices the killer is mak­ing it per­sonal, too personal!

this is a pre­view of darkly dream­ing dex­ter — jeff lind­say. read the full post (228 words & 1 image, esti­mated 55 secs read­ing time)
July 20, 2010 – 11:09 | By eb | Posted in detectives, recommendations, thrillers | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

death by chocolate — toby moore

In a not too dis­tant future, being f*t (read fat) is ille­gal. Laws to imprison peo­ple who have a too high per­cent­age of body f*t have been made and a Health Enforce­ment team is work­ing the streets of New York to spot any­one who is over­weight (‘humon­sters’). Matt Devlin is one of the agents work­ing for this team, and he’s con­tent writ­ing out tick­ets for f*t peo­ple. But his rou­tine is shat­tered when a dead body is found near an ille­gal ‘eateasy’; the body only wear­ing a bikini of the best, rarest and purest choco­late (‘brown’). And of course choco­late is an ille­gal sub­stance to posses and eat. So, the ques­tion that arises is this: Who’s crime is this…is it a case for homi­cide or the mel­low Health Enforce­ment? Or can both apart­ments work this case together?…f*t chance!

this is a pre­view of death by choco­late — toby moore. read the full post (261 words & 2 images, esti­mated 1:03 mins read­ing time)
August 10, 2009 – 17:24 | By eb | Posted in detectives, general fiction, humor | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

this pen for hire — laura levine

Jaine Austen (yes, her “mother is an Anglophile, and a bad speller”) has her own writ­ing ser­vice and one day she has to write a let­ter for geeky Howard, who wants to ask a blonde female fit­ness instruc­tor named Stacy for a date. Jaine is a bit reluc­tant to write it, but in the end, does what is asked by her client — money had a big influ­ence in that deci­sion. She had bet­ter gone with her instinct to refuse him, because next thing she knows, Howard is in prison, arrested for the mur­der of Stacy.
Jaine is 100% sure, Howard isn’t the cul­prit. The only thing she has to do now is prove her female intu­ition is right. Some­thing that eas­ier said than done.

this is a pre­view of this pen for hire — laura levine. read the full post (218 words & 2 images, esti­mated 52 secs read­ing time)
July 17, 2009 – 16:49 | By eb | Posted in chick-lit, detectives, don't bother | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

three bedrooms, one corpse — charlaine harris

Aurora (Roe) Tea­gar­den gave up her work as librar­ian when she unex­pect­edly inher­ited a house and money. She decided to give the real estate busi­ness a chance. After all, her mother is one of the most suc­cess­ful agents in town. It should give Roe a head start. Well…it gives Roe a start, but not the start she wanted, for her first house show­ing ends with a naked corpse in the mas­ter bed­room. Not the way Roe hoped her new career would take off and to make mat­ters worse, one of her new-found col­leagues has fallen under sus­pi­cion.
Time to jump into action. Roe, the natural-born sleuth, will not have piece until she has unrav­eled this mystery.

this is a pre­view of three bed­rooms, one corpse — char­laine har­ris. read the full post (183 words & 2 images, esti­mated 44 secs read­ing time)
July 17, 2009 – 15:44 | By eb | Posted in chick-lit, detectives | Tagged , , | Comments (3)