The Haunted Reading Room. WHO'S COMING DOWN YOUR CHIMNEY TONIGHT?

5 Stars! I read this immediately after reading the first in the Series, MYSTERY OF BLACK HOLLOW LANE.  I adored this mystery equally. ...

4 Stars Canadian Challenge  A multicultural coming-of-age story in which magical realism, fantasy, otherworldly dimensions, the nat...

5 Stars +! I adored this novel from the beginning. Not only a delight to read, I found it extraordinarily easy to empathize with the y...

4 Stars Dr. Kate Pomeroy has only just begun to recover from the shocks and griefs, and the horrifying revelations, of the summer on ...

5 Stars This consistently excellent series continues with two I rate as SCARY, and one in which for me the Scare was overlain by sorrow...

4 Stars Charlie Harmer is an endearing,  likeable--ghost. Yes: once upon a time Charlie was a  Chicago DJ, then he died, and his less-...

4 Stars STORM ISLAND returned me to those good old days of upper childhood and adolescence when I daily devoured the likes of novels by...

Knock those ARCs out!!@ netgalley-and-edelweiss-reading-challenge-2020-sign-up Many (not all) books read here will also apply to my 2020...

mount-tbr-reading-challenge-2020 My Goodreads Shelf  is 2020 Mount TBR _ Ararat Level: Mount Ararat. 48 Books. Reading NetGalley &...

virtual-mount-tbr-2020 My Goodreads Shelf is: 2020_virtual_tbr_challenge I don't have Library access, so my Virtual will be on Scr...

5 Stars  "Ghosts can't hurt you! All they can do is scare you." Haven't  you heard or read that all your life? Well...

5 Scare Stars! This Volume starts off with a bang! "Dead House" by Ron Ripley SCARED the living blazes out of me! Urban ex...

5 Stars! THE DROWNING is incredible! A bizarre mystery that stretches the bounds of what seems plausible, with fully-fleshed characters...

5 Scandi Stars! Prior to discovering KULT (my initial selection because  it's  Scandi-Noir) I had some time back read one crime...

4 Stars WAKE OF THE SADICO is a complex, rollicking, adventure, in which not only are there mundane adventures (scuba-diving, exploring ...

5 Stars WHERE THE SHADOWS LIE is Book 1 in Michael Ridpath's Icelandic crime thriller FIRE AND ICE series. Set against the stunnin...

5 Stars! Magnificently  lyrical, a literary  crime narrative  which in its expanse, characterization, and metaphorical  imagery rem...

4 Ice Stars EDGE OF NOWHERE is a novella introducing the backstory and foundation of Icelandic native Magnus Jonsson (Icelandic birth ...

Review: Dr. Jessie Teska is new to the San Francisco Medical Examiner's scene, but she is not new to forensic pathology. A star in ...

5 Frozen Stars! THE POLAR BEAR KILLING is an engrossing novella in Michael Ridpath's Iceland series. Vignis, a rare black Icelander...

4 Strange Stars 4 Stars A tale a day for the 12 Days of Christmastide: read all at once or savor like a ghostly Advent calendar. ...