Robert Masello’s ‘The Jekyll Revelation’ Puts A Modern Twist on a Gothic Classic [REVIEW]

The Jekyll Revelation collage
Is there a real connection between serial killer Jack the Ripper, author Robert Louis Stevenson, and the “fictional” Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Find out in Robert Masello’s The Jekyll Revelation.
(Pictures courtesy Illustrated London News, Lloyd Osbourne, and Library of Congress)

Good stories linger with us as readers, burrowing under our skin, tickling our imaginations long after the last page is turned. Ever since Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886 and Jack the Ripper’s horrific Whitechapel Murders were publicized in the press in 1888, both tales have haunted us ever since. But what if the stories were linked somehow?  And if they were, where is the line between fact and fiction drawn? Author Robert Masello brilliantly blends the two tales to create the unforgettable, terrifying novel, The Jekyll Revelation.  Continue reading “Robert Masello’s ‘The Jekyll Revelation’ Puts A Modern Twist on a Gothic Classic [REVIEW]”

Jeffery Deaver’s ‘Solitude Creek’ Will Turn Your World Upside Down And Inside Out [REVIEW]

Woman, Sunset, Sea and Silence
Woman, Sunset, Sea and Silence (Photo courtesy martin, Flickr)

In Jeffery Deaver’s latest novel, Solitude Creek, a killer is obsessed with using people’s own fears against them as the ultimate weapon. As panic spreads across the Monterrey Peninsula, California Bureau of Investigation kinesics expert Kathryn Dance returns to solve the case before the killer can strike again.  Continue reading “Jeffery Deaver’s ‘Solitude Creek’ Will Turn Your World Upside Down And Inside Out [REVIEW]”