Patricia Brigg’s Alpha & Omega books have become a comfort read for me. I especially enjoyed the last two books, ‘Dead Heat’ and ‘Burn Bright’. I slipped into ‘Wild Sign’ expecting more of the same but, about a third of the way through the book, I almost set it aside. It made me realise what […]
In the wilds of the Northern California mountains, all the inhabitants of a small town have gone missing. It’s as if the people picked up and left everything they owned behind. Fearing something supernatural might be going on, the FBI taps a source they’ve consulted in the past: the werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham. […]
Originally posted on Mike Finn 2021 Halloween Bingo:
This is my fifth visit with Charles and Anna and it’s the best of the series so far. I started reading this spin-off series as a kind of filler while I waited for the next Mercy Thompson book to come out. By the fourth book ‘Dead Heat’, that…
As the pandemic grinds on, Brexit starts to bite and the venal incompetence and fundamental inhumanity of our leadership starts to be accepted as normal as part of that it-could-be-worse coping mechanism the English use as an alternative to political struggle, I’ve been losing the struggle for serenity (Is that an oxymoron or a statement […]
‘Fair Game’ is the third novel-length episode of the spin-off series from the Mercedes Thompson series. This series is a comfort read for me. I’m restricting myself to one book a month so that I don’t gobble them all down too quickly. The last book, ‘Hunting Ground‘established Anna in a stable relationship with Charles. This […]
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