Bookish and Feint

By Tina Seskis An apparently happy marriage. A beautiful son. A lovely home. So what makes Emily Coleman get up one morning and walk right out of her life? How will she survive? And what is the date that looms, threatening to force her to confront her past? No-one has ever guessed her secret. Will you? ------------- A terrible event causes an otherwise happily married mother to abandon her family and the reader is left to second guess the nature of the event almost to the end of the novel, which of course is the point: ' No-one has ever guessed her secret. Will you?'. It ’s an intriguing premise but one I felt that was ultimately under-developed, and whilst I found the book to be very readable I was left dissatisfied at its conclusion. I enjoyed the exploration of not only the main character’s (Emily/Cat’s) history, but also that of her wayward twin Caroline, and their parents. This meant that the reader is able not only able to see Emily’s family from her poi...

by Ashley Edward Miller  and Zack Stentz I read and reviewed this a while ago but I've been re-watching the TV programme  Elementary,  which for those who don't know, is a modern incarnation of the literary Holmes and Watson dream team, and I always think fondly of the eponymous Colin Fischer whenever Sherlock Holmes pops up, so I thought I'd put it up here. ------------- 'Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions. But when a gun is found in the school cafeteria, interrupting a female classmate’s birthday celebration, Colin is the only for the investigation. It’s up to him to prove that Wayne Connelly, the school bully and Colin’s frequent tormenter, didn’t bring the gun to school. After all, Wayne didn’t have frosting on his hands, and there was white chocolate frosting found on the grip of the smoking gun…' ------------ Colin Fischer   is marke...