I heard a lot of positive things about Gone Without a Trace, the début novel from author Mary Torjussen. The synopsis looked intriguing, so I added it to my enormous list of books to read, but avid readers know how this goes. Newer books came along, and before too long, Gone Without a Trace got…
Want to read a hometown mystery starring a former child actress trying to get out of debt? Yeah, I didn’t know I needed this in my life, but Deadly Summer, the first in a new series, mixes humor and mystery with a sweet romance in a way I wasn’t expecting. Summer Butler was a famous…
Lovers of psychological thrillers with big, shocking twists won’t want to miss What She Doesn’t Know, the latest novel from author Andrew E. Kaufman. It’s a dark tale of one woman’s search for the truth where nothing and no one is as it seems. Riley Harper is ready for a fresh start. When our story…
The Next Girl is the first installment in Carla Kovach’s mystery series featuring Detective Gina Harte. It’s not the most complex mystery I’ve read recently, but I found it easy to get lost in just the same. The complicated nature of the heroine makes up for any deficiencies in the plot itself, and I found…
Back in 1988 a little film called Fatal Attraction garnered five academy award nominations. A movie about a man whose short fling with a beautiful, successful woman goes really, really bad, it’s a cautionary tale of how one small mistake can have some very big consequences. In many ways, Such Dark Things is a millennial…
The Day She Disappeared is the latest offering from author Christobel Kent. It’s the story of one woman’s search for the truth about the disappearance of her best friend, but while the synopsis sounded great, the novel’s execution left something to be desired. Nat is struggling to get her life together. She’s nearing thirty, and…
Although I’ve been a fan of Chris Bohjalian’s novels for a number of years, his last few books have lacked that certain something that made the rest of his work stand out. Fortunately with The Flight Attendant, he’s back at the top of his game, and I couldn’t be happier. For flight attendant Cassie Bowden,…
The Echo Killing is the first novel in a new series featuring crime reporter Harper McClain. It takes place in Savannah, Georgia, but the city portrayed here isn’t the genteel, graceful place you’ve read about in so many historical novels. Instead, author Christi Daugherty shows readers a completely different side of this southern city. It’s…
I fell in love with Clare Mackintosh’s writing last year with the release of I See You, which was one of my favorite thrillers of 2017. Ever since then, I’ve been on tenterhooks waiting for the author’s next book, so I jumped at the chance to review Let Me Lie. Everyone says Anna’s parents took…
I picked up Amy Lloyd’s The Innocent Wife after reading quite a few positive reviews on both Twitter and Goodreads. The story has received a ton of praise from people whose reading tastes closely align with my own, and I was eager to try it for myself. Fortunately, I got a review copy, and I…
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