

Review of Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper
The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural detail, a lush Australian setting, and character development I found...
Mar 30, 2023


Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young characters agency; explores...
Mar 1, 2023


Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
I was hooked on Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing...
Feb 23, 2023


Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year
Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads "Is she going to just keep rehashing all the big hits of her past year of reading?" YES....
Feb 10, 2023


Review of Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger
Book two of the series continues to be playful, mischievous, wonderfully detailed about Victorian life, and full of supernatural...
Feb 1, 2023


Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson
Jackson doesn't skimp on heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult...
Jan 18, 2023


Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year
Six Four-Star Bossy Mystery Reads Doesn't the cold winter feel like the perfect time to cozy up with a mystery that hooks you with its...
Jan 13, 2023


Review of Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
This fun, darkly funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins was the right book at the right time for me:...
Jan 11, 2023


Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
The past timeline explores creativity, love, betrayal, and unexpected loops of consequence--which are echoed hauntingly in the present...
Jan 5, 2023


Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious fervor and faith, secret...
Dec 22, 2022


Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...
Dec 20, 2022


Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing, and young detectives'...
Dec 14, 2022


Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson
The fourth mystery in Johnson's Truly Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Bell and the gang, great...
Dec 8, 2022


Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Atkinson's newest mystery is set in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while...
Dec 7, 2022


Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith
The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the Cormoran-Robin romantic tension...
Dec 6, 2022


Review of Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and present...
Dec 1, 2022


Review of A Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske
The second book in Marske's series is an irresistible queer magical mystery thriller with Edwardian England details, racy encounters,...
Nov 16, 2022


Review of A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
This first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery series offers not only an irresistible heroine, but a...
Nov 8, 2022


Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
The twist in The Other Side of Night is fascinating, but I wanted to feel more for the characters, who experience extensive trauma, feel...
Nov 3, 2022


Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones
Much of the book involves thwarted attempts to unravel the past by a main protagonist who has been emotionally destroyed by trauma and...
Sep 15, 2022
