30 Aug, 2010
Posted by: Susan In: Teen Lit
Bibliography: Lee, Y.S. (2010). The Agency Book 2: The Body at the Tower. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN:
Plot Summary: On her second case for the Agency, Mary Quinn finds herself in the seamy side of Victorian London, pretending to be a boy while she spies on the construction site of the clock tower of the [...]
Bibliography: Nunn, Malla. (2010). Let the Dead Lie. New York: Washington Square Press. ISBN: 978-1416586227
Plot Summary: Disgraced and dismissed at the end of A Beautiful Place to Die, former Detective Sargeant Emmanuel Cooper is working on the docks of Durban trying to catch corrupt cops when he stumbles on the body of a murdered child. [...]
Bibliography: Flynn, Gillian. (2006). Sharp Objects. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN: 978-0307341549
Plot Summary: With every fiber of her being protesting, newspaper reporter Camille Preaker returns home to Wind Gap, Missouri to get the scoop for her third rate newspaper on the kidnapping and murder of two little girls. Not exactly the return of the [...]
Tags:
AYA,
contemporary,
daughters,
dysfunctional family,
family,
fiction,
girl,
gothic,
journalism,
mothers,
mystery,
newspaper,
reporter,
reviews,
sisters,
small town,
southern,
southern gothic,
thriller
As mentioned briefly here, I am joining Amber at The Literary Wife in an informal reading challenge of sorts as we read and blog our way through the top 100 children’s books as voted on by readers of Elizabeth Bird’s A Fuse #8 Production.
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. (1967). The Egypt Game. New York: Atheneum. ISBN: 978-1416990512 [...]
Tags:
adventure,
blogging,
challenge,
fiction,
friends,
game,
girl,
junior fiction,
mystery,
Newbery Honor,
reviews,
school,
top 100 children's books
Bibliography: Robertson, Michael. (2009). The Baker Street Letters. New York: Minotaur Books. ISBN: 9780312538125
Plot Summary: London solicitor Reggie Heath loves his new law offices, and loves the great lease he got on them even more. But there is a catch–the offices are located at 221b Baker Street and part of the deal is that they [...]
Tags:
AYA,
Baker Street,
british,
brothers,
contemporary,
fiction,
hollywood,
mystery,
reviews,
Sherlock Holmes,
suspense