Nevermore: Secret Societies, Devil’s Bones, Six Feet Deep Dish

 

Nevermore: Secret Societies, Devil’s Bones, Six Feet Deep Dish

 

Reported by Rita

 

 

The Little Book of Secret Societies: 50 of the World's Most Notorious Organizations and How to Join Them by Joel Levy

History is riddled with mysteries surrounding secret societies. Nearly all civilizations have at some point been the home to these shadowy groups. Meeting behind closed doors and saying nothing of what goes on inside, suspicion shrouds their every move. Should we be afraid of the Freemasons? How powerful were the Illuminati? When people say that world affairs are shaped by these subversive organizations, should we really believe them?

From college fraternities like the Skull and Bones, to religious movements like the Templars, Joel Levy examines 50 of the most infamous secret societies from throughout history. Balancing the historical claims with more skeptical viewpoints, here is all the evidence you need to decide for yourself exactly how suspicious you should be.

 

This was a quick, fun read - really interesting.      - KM      4 stars

 

The Devil's Bones (Body Farm Series #3) by Jefferson Bass

A burned car sits on a Knoxville, Tennessee hilltop, a woman's lifeless, charred body seated inside. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's job is to discover the truth hidden in the fire-desecrated corpse. Was the woman's death accidental . . . or was she incinerated to cover up her murder? But his research into the effect of flame on flesh and bone is about to collide with reality like a lit match meeting spilled gasoline. The arrival of a mysterious package--a set of suspiciously unnatural cremated remains--is pulling Brockton toward a nightmare too inhuman to imagine. And an old nemesis is waiting in the shadows to put him to the ultimate test, one that could reduce Brockton's life to smoldering ruins. 

I really enjoyed it. Having lived in Knoxville, it was fun to recognize the areas described in the book.      - CD      5 stars

 

Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley

When, right before opening her new gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin, Delilah O'Leary is dumped by her fiancée and her aunt is accused of murder, she must save her pie-in-the-sky ambitions before they can even get off the ground.

 

This was a fun and cute mystery. I will probably read more in the series.     - MH        4 stars

 

Others Books Mentioned:

 

 

Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara (Contributor)

Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang

The Lower River by Paul Theroux

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1) by Jim Fergus

Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue

 

 

New Books:

 

Let's Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen

The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum by Valerie Wilson Wesley

Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo

Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America by Jonathan Vigliotti

The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy by Susan Wise Bauer

Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters by Edward J. Larson