Red Wolf's Room

The writing of Murder Your Employer: McMasters Guide to Homicide, Volume 1 is masterful. Even for someone like myself who has read and watched all kinds of mysteries over the years, there was a lot of "bait and switch," things hidden in plain sight and passing truths off as lies (and vice versa). The beginning provides the reader with enough description to give them the sense that it's the 1950s, which it later confirms. The type and level of humor is similar to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, I find. I'll admit, it was hard for me to follow at times because we're not presented with the characters' plans of murder in a linear fashion. It also doesn't help that the author alternates between three characters and not always in the same order. It's just a lot to take in. Photo by Daniela Constantini Summary  The book is written as if Dean Harbinger Harrow of the McMasters school is a real person and the true author, Rupert Holmes, is the editor of this v...

The Girl on the Train movie will be coming out soon .  For those of you who have yet to read the book, I encourage you to do so.  I prefer fantasy, science fiction and classic mysteries, but this book does have mysterious aspects and twists that you may never see coming.  I'll begin from the beginning. **In case you didn’t see it the first time: Spoilers Ahead (and the Culprit is Revealed) ! The Girl on the Train has three women narrating: Rachel, Megan and Anna. Rachel - The main narrator and the girl on the train. She rides the train into town on her way to work everyday and passes her old house and street. Rachel notices a man and a woman a couple of doors down from her old house and imagines their perfect life together. Later, Rachel finds out about the woman’s disappearance and because of the fiction she created in her head, she feels obligated to figure out what happened. She was also in the neighborhood the day the woman disappea...