reviews

A Collection with Two Good Stories, and a Lot of Duds Author: Eric Miller I love horror stories, and I love all things trucks, especially big rigs with their sensuous power and subliminal call to adventure. What could be better than a combination of isolation horror and the strange goings-on between truck stops interspersed with the semi-lonely, semi-romantic life of a long haul trucker? Enter 18 Wheels of Horror, a book that I’ve been longing to read for years. 18 Wheels of Horror contains 18 horror short stories, focusing in and around a trucker’s life on the road. While the premise [...]

A Lackluster Mystery, a Grim Murder Author: Fiona Barton When a tiny skeleton is unearthed at a building site, journalist Kate Waters can’t let it go. Who is the Building Site Baby? Are the bones the answer to a famous kidnapping of nearly twenty years before, and if so, how did the baby get there? What tragedy do those sad bones, suspended under a long dead potted plant, have to tell? Kate doesn’t know, but she intends to find out. The first step is writing an article, the second is going through the history of the gentrifying neighborhood and tracing back [...]

You Are What You Eat Author: Marc Fennell This is my second Audible Podcast journey with Marc Fennell, who was also the host of the deliciously spicy It Burns, which went behind the scenes of the world’s hottest chili. In Nut Jobs, Fennel once again chooses an offbeat topic: major crime in the world of nut farming and transport. When you think of dramatic heists and mafia schemes, casinos and jewels come to mind, gangsters making deals in dingy back rooms. You don’t instantly think of farming, big rigs, and the daily imports that grace your pantry shelves. But, it appears [...]