In the latest from Megan Miranda, The Last to Vanish, seven people have vanished in the small North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass over the past twenty odd years. What happened to them? And can we trust the narration of Abby Lovett–the book is in her first-person voice–about whom we know almost nothing? I…
That first magical year of university, who can forget it? Those glorious days of newfound independence from your family, making friends, spreading your wings, picking up a stalker – oops, that last part isn’t typically on your average student’s agenda. But it is the central point around which Ruth Ware’s The It Girl revolves. Hannah…
Listen to Me is the thirteenth novel in the Rizzoli and Isles series. While you could probably follow the plot without reading the previous volumes, you would miss out on a great deal of the character and relationship building done in those books, so I recommend starting at the beginning. Everyone loved the victim. Boston…
Little Sister is the fourth book in the DCI Jonah Sheens series. You do not have to read the others to enjoy this one, but I recommend doing so since they are excellent books and provide some interesting background on the main character. Jonah Sheens is at the pub with his daughter Milly, enjoying nice weather,…
I had a very difficult time grading The Younger Wife. Sally Hepworth’s family-driven suspense novels are always a great read, and The Younger Wife is genuinely surprising, absorbing, and interesting, providing the reader with a satisfying page-turner. But on the other hand, its entire plot hinges on the neurotic presumptions of its main cast, who…
Lucy Foley’s The Guest List was one of my favorite mysteries of 2020 so naturally, when The Paris Apartment came up for review, I was eager to read it. Like The Guest List, the events in this book take place over the course of just a few days and the plot resembles a locked room…
The Patient’s Secret was one of my most highly anticipated reads of 2022. Unfortunately, it didn’t fulfill the hopes I had for it. Lily and Tom Bradley are respected residents of the comfortably posh Story Cove community. She is a psychotherapist, he’s a distinguished professor at the local university. They live in an eggplant-colored dream…
The Golden Couple is the latest offering from the writing duo of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. I’ve loved every book they’ve published and this one is no exception. Avery Chambers is of the firm conviction that losing her license as a therapist and the resultant necessity of doing independent life coaching/counseling is one of…
Run, Rose, Run is just as charming as everything else connected to musician/actress/philanthropist Dolly Parton. Though it’s mostly a character study about three different personalities making their way through the Nashville scene than a thriller, the suspense element adds a nice bit of variety to the proceedings. It’s a fun, quick read in spite of…
The Harbor is a Nordic noir police procedural which centers around the case of a teenager who disappears off the streets of Copenhagen on his walk home from school. While this is the third in the Kørner and Werner series, you don’t have to read the first two volumes to understand this one. Our story…
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