Simone St. James’ latest spooky thriller Murder Road takes us to a small town in Michigan with a really big problem. July, 1995: When they pick her up, she is reluctant to speak. She looks shell-shocked. Eddie and April Carter only offered her a ride because a (seemingly) drunk girl walking dazedly along the side…
Five years ago, in the gleefully gossipy small town of Plumpton, Texas, Lucy Chase wandered out of the woods, covered in blood, unable to recall who killed her best friend Savannah. After first being seen as a victim, Lucy slowly became the town’s prime suspect–even her parents seem to think she might be a murderess….
The Woman on the Ledge is a story where, for the first half of the book, you know the narrator is lying–she tells you so–but you don’t know why. It’s a book that I found gripping until about the 60% mark at which point, having figured out what was going on, I enjoyed but found…
The mystery/suspense market tends to skew white, so I was excited to see this debut by an author of color. The Night of the Storm is a tale of family, betrayal, and the importance of listening to weather alerts. A recent transplant from Chicago to Houston, single mom Jia Shah is in no way ready…
There is a saying in real estate that three things matter: location, location, location. Midnight is a novel that leans heavily on this aphorism, letting the setting of a luxurious ocean cruise to Antarctica do the heavy lifting for the storytelling. Olivia Campbell is afraid of the water. Well, not so much the water as…
I really enjoyed Frank Spinelli’s Perfect Flaw, a compelling mystery featuring a somewhat naive young doctor whose dream job quickly turned into a nightmare when his ambition and insecurities caused him to overlook some very serious flaws in the people around him to such an extent that he almost tanked his career. Angelo was a…
In Nita Prose’s The Maid, we are given a first-person narrator in Molly—the Maid herself. Molly, a presumably neurodivergent young woman, finds her sole joy in working as a housemaid at the Regency Grand. Following the recent loss of her beloved Gran, Molly navigates a world where understanding others’ responses remains a constant struggle, leaving…
Something Wicked is book three in Lily Morton’s Black & Blue series of paranormal romances set in York and featuring psychic Blue Billings, his boyfriend Levi Black, and their motley crew of friends and found family. I admit that I haven’t read a book by this author for a while – her regular brand of…
In the realm of storytelling, every now and then, a book emerges wielding a narrator so specific and wildly entertaining that all one wants to do is shut out the world until the very last page is turned. Such is the enchantment of Elston’s Evie Porter in First Lie Wins. In Elston’s inaugural foray into…
Ever finish a book and wonder what the heck you just read? I had such a response upon completing Two Dead Wives – which is the follow-up to the author’s other recent release, Woman Last Seen. When I selected this book for review, I had no idea that was the case – neither author nor…
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