LA movie critic Ann Whitehead has reached her limit of summer blockbusters and Hollywood power machine. After finding a dead woman in her bathtub she embarks on a mission to solve the crime, learning along the way that she knows little about Hollywood: past or present. If you like James Ellroy, are fascinated by old LA and its crimes you'll dig this book. It's modern and the "detective" is a woman but it delivers the noir in spades.

This was a bit hard to get into at first because his language is very dense. But once you get used to that it turns into a very interesting look at politics, murder, father/son relations.

Where do I even begin. This book is so good it hurt to finish. I don't want to spoil it so basically the curator of the Louvre gets murdered in the Grand Hall. He leaves clues to his murder and the Paris police contact symbologist Robert Langdon to help with the case. What he finds are links to the Catholic Church, ?, and a secret society. I cannot say enough about this book. Get it, read it.

Harry is a teenager. I know lots of people didn't like this new one, but I really felt Rowling did a fantastic job of capturing the age of fifteen. He is a complete fifteen year old here, angry at everyone and everything. No one believes that Voldemort is back people are calling him crazy, Dumbledore won't talk to him, there's a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher that seems out to get him and he will lose someone close to him. I felt that this novel added depth to the characters and the story. But that's just my opinion, check it out and decide for yourself.