The Limpet Syndrome – Tony Moyle

Posted on September 22, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Limpet Syndrome is a science fiction novel about John Hewsen. John is pronounced dead; however, his soul is somehow still alive. He is in limbo and is in a form of a ball of electricity that still has sensory perception and can experience emotions, characteristics and possess memories. This condition…

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Mistletoe and Murder – S.L. Smith

Posted on September 18, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) Mistletoe and Murder is the fourth installment in the detective Pete Culnane series. The story starts out with a New Year’s Eve wedding reception in the historic Saint Paul Union Depot in Minneapolis where the matriarch, Collette Hammond, suddenly collapses and dies right before the stroke of midnight. As detective Martin…

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Plato Wyngard and the Valley of the Immortals – Marc and James Lindsay

Posted on September 15, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Plato Wyngard and the Valley of the Immortals is a thriller fiction story, written about Plato Wyngard. He is in search of answers to his father’s death; instead, he becomes stuck in the Vietnam War trying to locate four ancient relics in order to find the Jade Cup. The power of…

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Death of a Busybody (British Library Crime Classics) – George Bellairs

Posted on September 13, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Fifty year old Miss Ethel Tither has made a lot of enemies in her years in the English village of Hilary Magna. She is a major financial donor to the Home Gospel Alliance for Bringing Sinners to Repentance, and so you can tell where her concerns lie. It’s not enough that…

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Red-handed in Romanée-Conti – Jean-Pierre Alaux , Noël Balen (Translated from the French by Sally Pane)

Posted on September 11, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Benjamin knew that sometimes people were like wine. If they sat and breathed for a while, their full complexity could be revealed, even more so in the right environment and with the right people.” Benjamin Cooker, a well-renowned enologist from Bordeaux, and his young assistant, Virgile, can read people pretty well.…

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The Watcher – Eli Carros

Posted on September 9, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Watcher is a crime fiction story written about Chief Inspector Jack Grayson and his journey, hunting a serial killer terrorizing London. The killer attacks blond girls, cuts their throats and then leaves behind a necklace with their birthstone. Jack really tries hard to find any lead or connection to find…

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Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People – Danny Katch

Posted on September 6, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Trump is a tumor, not the cancer. He can do deadly harm if we don’t stop him, but we also have to treat the deeper sickness.” So how did we get to this point?  How was Trump  able to connect  with “ enraged male impotence”?  This is what socialist Danny Katch…

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Late Fame (NYRB Classics) – Arthur Schnitzler (Author), Alexander Starritt (Translator)

Posted on September 3, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung)   “Around him was an atmosphere of hope, youth, self-confidence, and he breathed it in deeply. …some of the words they were using began to sound familiar to him…words he had thought of from time to time over the course of the passing years as if of something opaque or daydreamt.…

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Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life – Diana Raab

Posted on August 31, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life is a psychology self- help book written about ways to heal and deal with trauma and stress, through writing. The author uses this technique in order to tell her story and transform her life. Writing is therapeutic…

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Addict (The Cassie Tam Files Book 1) – Matt Doyle

Posted on August 27, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Addict is a science fiction story about Cassie Tam, the first book of the Cassie Tam Files. The setting of the story is in New Hopeland. Everything is in the future with things like tech shifters and virtual junkies. Cassie is a private investigator and takes on the side jobs which…

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