pickMcNamara spent countless hours over several years trying to solve the case — or help law enforcement find new leads — of the East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker. She eventually dubbed “EAR-ONS” the “Golden State Killer” as it became clear that the perpetrator was indeed the same person. https://mwgerard.com/review-ill-be-gone-in-the-dark/
pickMosca Mye escapes the depressing world of her uncle and aunt‘s farm and finds a traveling partner in Eponymous Clent, a smooth-talking balladier. The two become embroiled in political intrigue as the kingdom is split into factions loyal to different royal siblings. More: http://mwgerard.com/books-for-march-17/
so-soIn 1912 London, the Victorian era is still alive and well despite the advances of the twentieth century. The Suffragette movement has reached a feverpitch. manufacturing jobs are still grueling and urban poverty is difficult to escape. In a time before film, the masses still attend vaudeville and circus shows for cheap thrills.
http://mwgerard.com/books-for-march-17/
pickIn fin de siecle Paris, Marcel Després finds meaning in his unusually perfect memory. He becomes an act in a cabaret, displaying his strange skill for the elite who dare to carouse in Montmartre by night.
Full review: http://mwgerard.com/books-for-march-17
pickHolmes fanatics rejoice! Finally there is a collection of stories that adequately celebrate, and imitate, the original.
Read my full review:
http://mwgerard.com/review-the-whole-art-of-detection/
An embarrasment of riches from Pegasus Books
He regarded me with a bemused expression. "You want me for my library."
The picture that had been commissioned of all three of the children together was removed from sight. Instead, her mother took to wearing a mourning brooch, typical of its time but always, to Sarah‘s mind, strange: a miniature painting surrounded with pearls, of Oscar‘s eye. http://mwgerard.com/review-the-unseeing/
Denial was a wonderful place to be: lovely scenery, great beaches.
The back porch of Flannery O'Connor's childhood home. #savannah
But Margaret wanted the whole house to move three feet to the left. It was indescribable what she wanted. She was restless. She wanted to work. She wanted to be thirty people. She wanted to wear a cap of pearls and a coat of bright blue diamonds. To live as nature does, in many ages, in many brains.
Magical energy is unlocked with alcohol, but too much alcohol will dilute it past the point of usefulness. If properly mixed, a Long Island Iced Tea will defy the most basic laws of magic: multiple liquors working in perfect harmony to unlock the drinker's deepest potential.
I may or may not have visited a wall that may or may not exist. Fresh Handler may or may not have known it exists, and may or may not have been trying to let me know this.
