Fog Warning by Edward Lorn

“Tick, tock, tickety, tock. Time’s slipping away, doc ... ”

Emergency Room Physician Brent Cummings is harboring secrets he’d rather leave in the shadows of his past. But, when he finds a dead woman in a foggy park, all his skeletons come tumbling out of the closet.

In a deadly race against time, Brent attempts to alter the future so that he might finally let go of the past.

Will he heed the warning in the fog, or will fate prove more dependable than the good doctor?


Doctor Brent Cummings is leaving work as the fog comes rolling in. He is on foot.. he doesn't drive because.. reasons. It's not that he can't, he just doesn't. Not since the "trouble" back in Oakland. He discovers a dead body full of stab wounds in the park but things don't go well for the doctor when he tries to report his discovery to the police. This was a quick but spine tingling, suspenseful read with the perfect mix of supernatural and murder. 5 out of 5 stars from me.

All Darling Children by Katrina Monroe

Description

All boys grow up, except one.
On the tenth anniversary of her mother's death, fourteen-year-old Madge Darling’s grandmother suffers a heart attack. With the overbearing Grandma Wendy in the hospital, Madge runs away to Chicago, intent on tracking down a woman she believes is actually her mother.
On her way to the Windy City, a boy named Peter Pan lures Madge to Neverland, a magical place where children can remain young forever. While Pan plays puppet master in a twisted game only he understands, Madge discovers the disturbing price of Peter Pan's eternal youth.

 

 

Madge Darling has never been happy living with her grandmother Wendy. She has tried to run away before but is sent back to her grandmother's cold unwelcoming house. She doesn't believe that her mother is dead, and desperately wants to find her. Madge makes her escape one night when she has been left alone with her drunken uncle Michael but is whisked away by Peter Pan with a promise to take her to her mother. Will she find the truth in Neverland? Or is the truth in Grandmother Wendy's diary? Katrina Monroe has envisioned and brought to life a dark and savage Peter Pan that is indeed a far cry from the innocent Disney version. 4 out of 5 stars from me.

 

I received a complimentary copy for review.

Eat the Night by Tim Waggoner

Description

For Joan Lantz, it starts with a dream of a death-cult’s mass suicide in the jungle of Suriname thirty years ago, followed by the discovery of a hidden basement in her new house, where heavy metal music echoes on humid tropical air.

For Kevin Benecke, long-suffering employee of a mysterious organization known simply as Maintenance, it starts with the violent death of his co-worker at the hands of a madman who tells him, The Big Dark is coming for you.

Long-dead cult leader and former rock star Mark Maegarr has returned from beyond the grave, and Joan and Kevin have front-row seats to his apocalyptic comeback. Maegarr’s waited decades to finish what he started, and this time no one will stop him from putting on a killer show designed to hasten the universe’s end.

Rock on.

Joan has suffered a traumatic past, which has left her always longing for a home of her own. Because of that, she is ecstatic when she has the opportunity to purchase a house with her husband Jon even if the circumstances of that opportunity seem suspiciously convenient.
Kevin is an employee of "Maintenance" a company which does not advertise, does not have customers and doesn't want any. These characters who seem to have nothing to do with each other do in fact share a common thread and they are going to meet, in a big way.
This was a creepy read, reminiscent of the classic 80s horror that I so love.
4 out of 5 stars from me.

I received a complimentary copy for review

Gangster Women And the Criminals They Loved by Susan McNicoll

Description

Gangsters of the past never looked far enough into the future to do much planning. They stole sufficient money to get by for a short while and then robbed again. Sometimes they wanted to settle down, but most knew their crimes were going to lead to jail or death and their women knew it too. Life on the run was no picnic, but gangsters' molls chose it over a settled life in suburbia. This book is a history of gangsters' molls and mob queens, and it explains who these women were, where they came from and why they did the things they did.Covers the life stories of Bonnie Parker, Virginia Hill, the glamorous girlfriend of Bugsy Siegel who died mysteriously, Evelyn Frechette, who was charged with harbouring murderous mobster John Dillinger and many others.

 

 

 

Most of us know the story of Bonnie and Clyde, or at least we think we do. This book takes a peek at the lives of other depression era gangsters and the women who loved them. Often merely teenagers when first embarking on a life of crime, and often not living much past their 20s. 

 

"Don't call us Molls, we hate that."

 

You have probably heard of "Baby Face Nelson"

but you may not know of Helen Gillis, the woman who loved him and who when asked why she would leave her children behind with relatives to go on the run with him said she knew he probably didn't have long to live and she "wanted to be with him just as long as I could"

These "Gangster Women" did not lead the glamorous lives that were often portrayed, while on the run from law enforcement, and knowing they were not likely to live happily ever after, or even live to see next week. This was an enlightening look into the lives of the women who were willing to risk everything for these men. It also contains several fascinating photos.

4 out of 5 stars from me.

 

I received a complimentary copy for review.