Breadcrumbs and Blindsides

A decent, though slower moving whodunnit from The Brighton Mysteries series.  The end is however a bit too "Hallmark channel" for my liking. 3/5

A stunning pseudo supernatural thriller about the effects of a haunted house on different generations of the same family. 4/5

Ritter's books under the Riley Sager nom de plume, thus far, have been written from the point of view of a female protagonist and he does this pretty well (from male perspective - I still need to get my wife's pov once she's read his books).  A hugely intricate supernatural murder mystery, with some brilliant twists and turns; this despite the slightly slow pace. 4/5

A number of magicians are murdered in a "magic act gone wrong" type of way. Everything appears to be connected to a WWII intelligence operation wherein said magicians partook. A well-written era whodunnit, but it lacks breadcrumbs 3.5/5

A decent era crime novel, set in the Chicago syndicate in the late 70s and early 80s. The novel lacks some of the familiar feel of fictionalised real events / people, but the era chosen is very accurately depicted and told with the intimacy of a writer who lived in the era and partook in the event. The story is interesting enough but a little too familiar. 3.5/5

Way too stylistically written. And the central Forrest Gump "hard work and perseverance will always lead to success, irrespective of prior trauma, but with a slither persisting melancholy" theme, is just a little too much. The whodunnit drowns in way too many obvious breadcrumbs. 6/10

Yes, it is more for teenagers, but such an epic protagonist and the witty life observations are just pure Pratchett! 4/5

A decently researched novel written in alternating first person from the perspective of one of the Bundy victims and the women who identified him at the Tallahassee sorority house, and the woman who connected the two.  Well written but at times lacking the expression real insight. 3/5