Kate Hardy kept me turning the pages again with book six in the Georgina Drake Mystery series, The Body at the Vineyard. This instalment (as with the previous ones) gives the basics – there’s a body, found at a vineyard. But the author also weaves in a historical murder mystery with each of the contemporary…
Hypnotically persuasive and a lot of fun to read, Their Double Lives is an enjoyable, twisty, suspenseful ride that’s filled with imperfect, complicated characters. It’s not the most surprising mystery I’ve ever read, but it’s incredibly involving. The phenomenal tension between its characters and how truly and totally it involves you in their fates makes…
Don’t Let Him In is a story that makes you wonder just who might be watching you from the shadows – and why. Our story begins with an end. Flowers are delivered to the home of successful entrepreneur Paddy Swain. They are unwelcome. His wife, Nina, and daughter, Ash, have all the posies they can…
Vi Keeland, a powerhouse in romance, turns to thriller with Someone Knows, a novel that is fast, engrossing, and, in the end, deeply frustrating. Elizabeth, a mid-forties English professor, has spent decades keeping people at arm’s length. Men find her irresistible—an ongoing theme the novel never lets us forget—but she lets no one in, save…
Homemaker by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare (who also used to write as Mary Ann Rivers) is a departure for both authors as they shift from contemporary romance to mystery. But don’t worry – there is a still a little romance here to keep any fan of their work fully engaged even as the mystery…
Erin Dunn’s He’s to Die For is one of those books I could tell I was going to love from the very first page. It’s a superb combination of mystery and romance in which the author – in her first published novel, no less – does a terrific job of balancing the various elements of…
Now her books are being traditionally published, we’re having to wait a bit longer for new titles from KJ Charles owing to the longer lead-times usually required by the industry. Last year saw two new releases, the brilliant Death in the Spires in February followed by The Duke at Hazard, in July, but her next…
Narrated by Gomez Pugh I struggled to find something to fit this month’s “Older Couple” TBR Challenge prompt – not because I don’t like the trope, but because I do; I’ve read all the books I own that feature older couples (which I count as people in their forties and/or fifties.) So I ended up…
Poe Webb built her podcast, Tell Me What You Did, on the premise that people want to confess. Every week, anonymous callers admit to crimes—some petty, some monstrous—and Poe listens. She asks sharp, calm questions, curates the chaos, and chalks up with another hit episode. She’s not calling in, however. Even though, seven years ago,…
Transitioning from child to adult is never easy, but it is also never a solo journey. Our formation is strongly impacted by the teachers, friends, co-workers, and yes, parents, who accompany us on the journey into the adult world. Parents Weekend is about what happens when that journey is interrupted by sinister events. It’s Parents…
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