Bull by David Elliott My rating: 4 of 5 stars **Thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Book Group for providing me a digital ARC of this novel via Netgalley for the purpose of review** I can see why the publisher chose to reference Hamilton in their jacket blurb for this novel. It’s hip! The kids […]

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Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a beautiful book — and all the credit for me even knowing anything about it goes to my friend Rebecca Kordesh. She sent me scattered passages from this book and I fell in love with the language; it’s meter, it’s cadence, […]

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The Black Country by Alex Grecian My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very much like The Yard, Grecian’s follow-up novel in his London Murder Squad series uses his historical backdrop as a way to write an engaging mystery. Where last time he made use of the birth of forensic science in the wake of Jack […]

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