I love many of Denise Mina’s books, but The Good Liar is not one. It begins well. Doctor Claudia O’Sheil, famous forensic scientist, is preparing to speak at a glittering fundraiser. In her folder are two speeches—one that preserves the official story of a murder that occurred one year ago, one that reveals her doubts….
Dire Bound’s debut authors landed a seven-figure deal from Hachette Books and so I had to see what the excitement was all about! It’s marketed as Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games and it did indeed remind me of both books. I liked the direwolves and their magic but, sadly, I struggled with the romance. …
KD Casey’s Breakout Year is a charming and heartfelt opposites attract / fake-dating story featuring a professional baseball player and a former player who now ekes out a living as a writer and occasional model. The slow-burn romance between these two is swoony, sweet, and beautifully done, and the story is a bit different to…
The Gingerbread Bakery is a second chance romance with cozy holiday vibes and the fifth book in the Dream Harbor series. It’s sweet and spicy and, other than a few quibbles, I enjoyed my time with this found family in Dream Harbor. Annie is a do-gooder who loves everyone in Dream Harbor except for Macaulay…
Set in London, Outlier is an opposites-attract, angsty romance that features neurodivergency and some major grovelling. Vicky is the titular outlier. Spectacularly beautiful and independently wealthy, her autism affects her everyday life, along with childhood trauma, and her amazing ability to remember everything she’s been told, even as far back as childhood. Mike is an…
Longtime readers at AAR will be thrilled to hear that romantic suspense great Jill Sorenson has not only a new book out, but that it’s the start of a series. Cowboy’s Last Stand, the first in her His to Protect series, reminds us why Sorenson has always stood out: she grounds her stories in the…
When I read Toni Anderson’s latest Cold Justice book, Cold Truth (book 6 of Cold Justice: Most Wanted) a while back, it reminded me that I still had a couple of her Cold Justice spin-off books on my TBR pile, one of which was Colder than Sin, the second book in the Cold Justice: The…
Sarah Chamberlain’s second book, Love Walked In, is a tender and layered romance with a mental-health focus. It follows 2024’s The Slowest Burn and has a similar feel of honest people doing their best in a sometimes difficult world. The novels opens with Californian Mari Cole arriving at Ross & Co Booksellers in London. She…
The Question of Us is the second book in Jay Hogan’s Fisher & Church romantic suspense series, and it follows our two protagonists – Nick Fisher and Madigan Church – as they process the events that took place at the end of The Meaning of You while figuring out who they are to each other…
My Best Friend’s Earl is the second book in Bethany Bennett’s Bluestocking Booksellers series. I haven’t read any of this author’s books before, but I liked the idea of a bookseller heroine and thought I’d give it a try. It was a fun romp, and if you’re not a stickler for period details, you may…
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