Massey has created a majestic evocation of the period and has another captivating success." -Shots Magazine "Massey''s second whodunit featuring Bombay attorney Perveen Mistry is even better than the series'' impressive debut. Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "Fantastic." -The Christian Science Monitor "A gloriously descriptive, imaginatively plotted and thrillingly concluded tale. Perveen uncovers ''a mysterious affair'' involving the death of a dowager, the kidnapping of a maharaja, a missing moonstone, and her own closed-off heart." -Carole E. I recommend this series to fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear." -The News-Review "This sequel is as lovely as the first. Perveen, whose aim is to help women and children, continues to engage us, thereby ensuring a long-running series." -The Seattle Times "One of my new favorite historical mystery series is written by Sujata Massey and centers on Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay and one of the first women to practice law in India. The Baltimore Sun ''s Best Author of 2019 An Amazon Best Book of the Month for May 2019 A Book Riot Read or Dead Most Anticipated Mystery Novel of 2019 A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Crime & Mystery Novel of 2019 A BookBub Most Anticipated Mystery Novel of 2019 A Goodreads Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of Spring Praise for The Satapur Moonstone "Well-researched and convincing." -The Wall Street Journal "Bright, determined.
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You wrote several books before My Lovely Wife but never published them. Last month’s read was Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn ! Stay up to date with our monthly picks for New York Family’s Parent’s Book Club. She was born and raised in Marin County and now lives in New Orleans, where she is furiously typing away on her next thrilling standalone. Samantha Downing is the author of the USA Today and #1 International Bestseller, My Lovely Wife. How well do you really know your neighbors? What better way to keep their marriage interesting than to get away with murder? Follow this couple through both their all too normal and extremely unsettling life. But flash forward fifteen years later, and their lives feel boring. My Lovely Wife tells the story of a man and woman who meet, fall in love, have kids, and move to the suburbs. New York Family’s Parent’s Book Club December Pick is My Lovely Wife, by Samantha Downing. Kant laid the foundations of his theory of knowledge in his monumental Critique of Pure Reason (1781). Above all, Kant was the philosopher of human autonomy, the view that by the use of our own reason in its broadest sense human beings can discover and live up to the basic principles of knowledge and action without outside assistance, above all without divine support or intervention. He eradicated the last traces of the medieval worldview from modern philosophy, joined the key ideas of earlier rationalism and empiricism into a powerful model of the subjective origins of the fundamental principles of both science and morality, and laid the ground for much in the philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Immanuel Kant was the paradigmatic philosopher of the European Enlightenment. The character arcs are all interesting, realistic, involving and enjoyable. It's intelligent, witty, well-paced, fun, easy to read and enjoyable. Magic Slays lives up to the series fairly well. You either keep up or she'll leave you behind.įor me the second book was an improvement but still only representative of a slightly better-than-average series.Įver since then, I've been in love with Kate Daniels, Ilona Andrews, and her Edge series. Note: Ilona Andrews will never hold your hand. Some people get thrown off of being tossed into an unfamiliar world with little or no hand-holding from the author. Unlike most people though, I didn't mind it at book one. okay, I'd probably have about a dollar now.īut still, for many avid readers out there, it is the bane of their existence. If I had a penny for every time I heard something like this about a series then. She is worth more to me than all of the precious jewels!* I adore her with the nuclear reactions of a thousand suns. She is beyond reproach, loved by all, exulted in her graciousness. There are not enough words in the English language to fully capture the incadescents of this magnificent human being. *Before I begin my review, I must take a moment to honour the devastating goddess who made it possible for me to read this book. If Viola is a scapegoat, then who really did it? And what are they hiding? To find the truth, Gretchen must enter a void that is not only dark and cold-blooded, but also frighteningly familiar. Gretchen White, top consultant for the Boston PD, has solved countless cases-but never her own. But Gretchen might be seeing something in Viola no one else does: herself. A brilliant psychologist faces the secrets and lies of her own dark past in a shocking novel of suspense by the Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author of A Familiar Sight.“Gretchen…What have you done” Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Amid stories of childhood horrors and Viola's cruel manipulations, the bad seed has already been found guilty by a rapt public. Remorseless teenager Viola Kent is accused of killing her mother. When a high-profile new case lands on Shaughnessy's desk, it seems open and shut. Shaughnessy still thinks Gretchen got away with murder. She's helped solve enough prominent cases for detective Patrick Shaughnessy that her own history is often overlooked: Gretchen is an admitted sociopath once suspected of killing her aunt. Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes. A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author. There are…some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. Quotes I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. 3.3 Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States.3.2 Tribute to Alexander Berkman, Mollie Steimer (1966).1.11 The Individual, Society and the State (1940).1.9 My Disillusionment in Russia (1923).1.7 Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter (1915).1.4.12 The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought.1.4.10 The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation.1.4.6 Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School.1.4.4 Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes even from its targets. In We Will Not Cancel Us, movement mediator adrienne maree brown reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond our impasse. But what is “too far” when you’re talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm? And what happens when people in social movements direct our righteous anger inward at one another? Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, it is seen by some as having gone too far. We Will Not Cancel Us is part of the Emergent Strategy Series.Ĭancel or call-out culture is a fraught topic these days. My other series, the Sloan Krause Mysteries are set in Leavenworth, Washington (where I frequently visit) a Bavarian village tucked into the Cascade Mountains. The Bakeshop Mysteries are set in the charming hamlet of Ashland, Oregon (where I actually live) and feature a romantic pastry chef, Juliet Montague Capshaw who bakes beautiful, artisan pastries and stumbles upon murder. I’m Ellie Alexander, mystery writer and overall dabbler in baking, beer, and the great outdoors. In fact, when I started this blog, one of my goals was to do a Q&A with her, so this is a big milestone for me (I can take a break from blogging now, yes? Oh, that’s not how it works… right). Both of these series are ones that I eagerly await new additions to and I’m beyond thankful to Ellie for taking the time to answer some questions for me. Words cannot express how excited I am to share this post! Squeee!!! My first author interview on this blog! And it’s with Ellie Alexander!!! (I know, I’m using a lot of exclamation marks but I’m just so darn excited!)Īs you may know from reading my blog, I’m a huge fan of cozy mysteries, especially culinary cozies, and two of my favourite series are by Ellie Alexander (which is actually a pen name of Kate Dyer-Seeley’s) – The Bakeshop Mysteries and the Sloan Krause Mysteries. Well, the whole UK Coronation thing is over, though to it's credit, the BBC has been reporting widely on the arrest of several protestors under new and widely criticized laws. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me. The world situation is the world situation. It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing. Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please. The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves. In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Savages and Kings of Cool are in a lot of ways about their style-they're performances and that's what I loved about both of them. But I was also interested, as a writer, in how a novelist best known for two words came to write a book that totals, as he confided with actuarial precision, 237,588. Sure, I was interested in the world of Mexican drug lords that Winslow had explored previously in The Power of the Dog, and had decided to revisit in The Cartel. I read Savages in a night, and its prequel, Kings of Cool-also a book with a two-word first chapter-in a day, and when I heard that Winslow was about to publish his "big book" in The Cartel(out June 23), I gave him a call. He wasn't, of course, trying to inspire us to start our stories with obscene imperatives, but rather to give us permission to take risks at the beginning, and then follow them through to the end. It was a novel that seemed to be written as-and on-a dare, and so when Esquire's Editor in Chief David Granger read it, he turned around and sent a copy to every writer on his staff, as an inspiration. Indeed, Savages was less written than it was performed, from the first page to the last. It also had the distinction of serving as the first note of a novel written entirely in the key of FU. That last entrant in the great-first-line sweepstakes had the distinction of being not only the first line but the entire first chapter of Don Winslow's terrific 2010 surf-noir novel, Savages. Then there was "It was the best of times, it was the worst times." |