The Raven is the second book in Mike Nappa’s “Coffey and Hill” suspense series. This story picks up about a year and a half after the “Annabel Lee” case ends. Trudi Coffey is still running her private investigations firm at a shopping center in Atlanta, and Samuel Hill now works for the Atlanta PD. It appears she’s turned down his suggestion that he return to being her partner full-time, but they do work together on cases that come up from time to time. Like this one that’s

I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up Annabel Lee, by Mike Nappa. The cover, with a creepy photograph of a staircase to a dark basement and the jagged font denoting the title, a hint at a line from an Edgar Allen Poe poem, made me think this could possibly be a horror book. But, as most people would tell you, "you shouldn't judge a book by its cover." Diving in, I began to get sucked into the first-person narrative of 11 year-old Annabel Lee Truckson, growing up in t

If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or seen the movie, then you already know the basic premise behind this book: Jane Austen’s classic story moves along as she originally wrote it, with little quirks added along the way, then all of a sudden, in the middle of the story, some strange phenomenon occurs, totally original and certainly bizzarre. In this case, it’s not zombies we are talking about here though, but vicious sea-life; fish and mythological monsters of the