Recent content by Heidizzle

Ooooh! Yes, you know, I was recently thinking about finding a good book about the Plague. Or pirates. Both are intriguing to me. Although I have a feeling that pirate books are mostly going to be boring economic-minded texts. So that's a no on the pirates then.

I don't mind gory photos--I've got a coffee table style book on serial killers that has some rather vivid police photos. I know which Jack the Ripper photos you mean, though (there are only so many floating out there) and he really did quite a number on that victim. Phew! I'm not usually a...

This may be a cliche, but I don't care: Agatha Christie has never let me down in the mystery department. Some of her novels are a little bit trite, but I am consistently surprised by the final outcome (I always end up with my fist to the sky grumbling, "Oh Aggie! You got me again!"). And you...

I was first introduced to this book through The Smoking Gun, oddly enough. As I read the synopsis on their page, I was particularly interested in a portion from the novel about his wild escape from law enforcement in a little town called Granville, Ohio. All I had to see was the name of that...

If anyone is interested, I recently finished two very good non-fiction books (I'm usually a fiction-only kind of girl): Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis, by Deborah Hayden and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach Pox is a great one for fiction...