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Amy is living a seemingly perfect life with an amazing husband, their young baby, and her 15-year-old stepdaughter. She has a best friend Charlotte who leads the neighborhood book club, which is held at Amy’s house. While the book club is usually a very buttoned up (and boring) evening, with a classic novel, a one-hour … Read More “Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson” »
This one sucked me in, and I can’t wait for the author to write the next book in this series. Notorious serial killer Benjamin Wayne Fisher promises to tell young detective Daniel Ellis where he hid the bodies… As long as Benjamin’s daughter, Reni Fisher, a former FBI profiler, comes along for the ride. Things … Read More “Find Me by Anne Frasier” »
I’ll start off by saying that I didn’t Add Pageknow this was the third book in a series when I picked it up (although it did feel like background was definitely missing,) and while that might have made the serial killer aspect of this book make more sense, the focal crime wasn’t compelling enough to … Read More “Hush Little Baby by Jane Isaac” »
When Arden Olivia Maynor was 6-years-old she sleepwalked out of her house during a violent storm, was presumably whisked underground by the flooding, and was missing for three days, finally found clinging to the underside of a grate. Now, 20 years later, she’s Olivia Meyer and just wants to be left alone. Unfortunately, one night … Read More “The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda” »
I figured out the whodunit part very early on, but for once it didn’t lessen my enjoyment of the story, and I stayed hooked from start to finish. Holly was kidnapped when she was 4-years-old and was unexpectedly returned three months later, physically unharmed but for a scar on her arm. The person who kidnapped … Read More “The Day I Disappeared by Brandi Reeds” »
While this is the fourth installment of the DI Dan Riley series, this can definitely stand on its own – this book focuses a lot more on the victims of the crimes than the investigation itself. Daisey Garrett is left for dead after a brutal attack by the Rose Petal Ripper – so dubbed because … Read More “The Woman Inside by Anna-Lou Weatherley” »
I really struggled to rate this book. While I really liked this author’s writing — it was almost hypnotic in its poetry — I didn’t find myself particularly drawn to many of the stories individually. I even read several more than once to try and get a deeper handle on what she was saying, but … Read More “A House Is a Body by Shruti Swamy” »
This is one of my favorites of the year so far. It reminds me a bit of A Man Called Ove, which I also really enjoyed, but I really liked how this book included a lot more history of the main character. Eudora Honeysett is 85-years-old, lives alone with her crotchety old cat, and outside of … Read More “The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons” »
This timely thriller won’t just have you scared for the characters, but for our society, as well. Sydney Green returns to live with her mother in their historically Black neighborhood in Brooklyn. However, the neighborhood is undergoing rapid gentrification, and several of their life-long friends and neighbors have suddenly disappeared and wealthy white people are … Read More “When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole” »
In the 1950s, Sonia, Katie, Roberta, and CiCi are 15-years-old roommates at an all-girls boarding school, Idlewild, which has a poor reputation and it’s very own home-grown ghost, Mary Hand. After a trip to visit her elderly and distant relatives, Sonia — a Holocaust survivor — never returns, and her best friends fear the worst. … Read More “The Broken Girls by Simone St. James” »