Mystery Books
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The Deadhouse (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back -- in this page-turning New York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes p
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Dead Midnight (A Sharon McCone Mystery)Stretching flat across the water, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is a popular spot...for jumpers. Roger Nagasawa, a brillian
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Perchance to DreamThe Sternwood Family, immortalized in" The Big Sleep," is in trouble again...Vivian's psychotic sister Carmen had disappeared
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Flight of the Intruder - 20th Anniversary Edition: A NovelAlso Available in an Audio Edition from Audible via AmazonIn Flight of the Intruder Jake Grafton is an A-
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Shoot Him If He Runs (A Stone Barrington Novel)Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise in this thriller in the #1 New Yor
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Caper: A Stanley Hastings Mystery (Stanley Hastings Mysteries)The latest in the beloved Stanley Hastings series―the unlikeliest private eye in New York City, who doesn’t even ca
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Mystery Movies
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PrometheusRidley Scott, director of "Alien" and "Blade Runner," returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundb
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Phone BoothA single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance a
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The Next Three DaysLife seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into
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SunshineThe story begins in the year 2057, as our Sun begins to die and mankind faces the unthinkable: extinction. Earth's last hope lies
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OrphanOrphan (DVD)Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga star as a couple who adopt a 9-year-old girl after losing their ow
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - Blacklands
Blacklands
Author: Belinda Bauer
Eighteen years ago, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murdered—after all, serial killer Arnold Avery later admitted killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounds their small English village. Only Billy’s mother is convinced he is alive. She still stands lonely guard at the front window of her home, waiting for her son to return, while her remaining family fragments around her.
But her twelve-year-old grandson Steven is determined to heal the cracks that gape between his nan, his mother, his brother, and himself. Steven desperately wants to bring his family closure, and if that means personally finding his uncle’s corpse, he’ll do it.
Spending his spare time digging holes all over the moor in the hope of turning up a body is a long shot, but at least it gives his life purpose.
Then at school, when the lesson turns to letter writing, Steven has a flash of inspiration...
Careful to hide his identity, he secretly pens a letter to Avery in jail asking for help in finding the body of "W.P."—William "Billy" Peters. So begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game.
Just as Steven tries to use Avery to pinpoint the gravesite, so Avery misdirects and teases his mysterious correspondent in order to relive his heinous crimes. And when Avery finally realizes that the letters he’s receiving are from a twelve-year-old boy, suddenly his life has purpose too.
Although his is far more dangerous...
