Category: Thriller

Hazel Gaynor has written another wonderful historical fiction novel that will leave you both content and in tears. Set in China during WWII, a British-run missionary school, filled with British and American students and teachers, is taken over by the Japanese army. Different chapters are told from the perspective of different characters, but the main … Read More “When We Were Young & Brave by Hazel Gaynor” »

I’m usually late to the party on thriller series, so it was nice starting a series from the beginning right when it’s being published. While I figured out the responsible party as soon as this character was introduced, it was still a suspenseful crime thriller, which answered the main whodunit for this book but left … Read More “Watch Her Vanish by Ellery A. Kane” »

I really wanted to like this one a lot more than I did. I loved the premise, but unfortunately, for me, it just didn’t live up to the promise. Two weeks before the wedding, Amy’s fiancé Matt doesn’t return home after a dinner with a client. She calls the police to report him missing, but … Read More “The Vow by Debbie Howells” »

I’m just going to say it up here: Keep reading all the way to the end. That’s what makes the whole book. Seriously, keep reading. Iris and Summer are identical twins on the outside, but inside — where it counts — they are actually mirror images of each other, both in the placement of their … Read More “The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle” »

In 1934, Ruth escapes the psychiatric hospital in Tuscaloosa where she was born and raised after one of the orderlies tries to force her into an unwanted marriage. After taking a job caring for an ailing, elderly man — who gifts her with a rare coin and then dies — she becomes half of the … Read More “Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter” »