It’s difficult to know where to begin with a Gaiman book. His tales are always so different, yet somehow always Gaiman. In fact, I hear his voice in my head while I’m reading, which is both comforting and unnerving — appropriately. This time, the hero is just a young boy. Now grown-up, he returns to…
REVIEW: A HALF FORGOTTEN SONG by Katherine Webb
On the eve of World War II, a small village on the Dorset coast is about to change forever. Artist Charles Aubrey brings his family — Celeste, Delphine & Elodie — to the seaside for the summer. Dimity “Mitzy” Hatcher, just 14 herself, a local, becomes fast friends with young girls. The long days are…
REVIEW: THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN by Hallie Ephron
Perhaps what makes this novel so frightening is that it could happen to anyone. The devious plan is so deceptively simple that it barely registers as out of place. The narrative alternates between two feisty heroines — Mina, an elderly resident of the quiet Higgs Point neighborhood in the Bronx and Evie, a young,…
REVIEW: CHARLOTTE MARKHAM AND THE HOUSE OF DARKLING by Michael Boccacino
Charlotte Markham has been a victim of Fate. She lost her husband to a fire and was forced to take a job as governess in the Darrow house. When Nanny Prum is brutally murdered in the middle of the night, Charlote is required to take on those duties as well. She shares one thing with…
REVIEW: THE UNSEEN by Katherine Webb
This is the first novel I have read by Ms. Webb but when she started with an epigraph page with quotes from William Wordsworth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudolph Steiner, I knew I was in for a well-wrought story. She certainly knows her literary stuff. The novel straddles the span of a century —…