

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


Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass
Alias Emma is a fast-paced cat-and-mouse chase across hidden London, led by Emma Makepeace, a resourceful, tough, new spy determined to...
Aug 9, 2022


Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Hillier's thriller jumps back and forth in time, deftly weaving a web of secrets and lies, daring escape, broken trust, revenge, and...
Aug 2, 2022


Review of Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Main protagonist Logan was hard for me to emotionally connect to, but I was hooked by the heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined...
Jul 19, 2022


Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
In Kate Quinn's newest historical fiction, she shares the story of a real World War II figure, a Russian bookworm-turned-sniper who...
Jun 28, 2022


Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You
Historical Fiction Mysteries I adore historical fiction and mystery books, and I love the intersection of the two genres. Something about...
Jun 24, 2022


Review of All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
All Her Little Secrets shines when Ellice Littlejohn wrests control of her increasingly dangerous circumstances and when racial issues...
Jun 23, 2022


Review of The Change by Kristen Miller
The Change explores the power of menopausal women and the poignant strength of friendship; supplies satisfying revenge fantasies and...
Jun 15, 2022


Review of A Marvellous Light (Last Binding #1) by Freya Marske
The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery, magic, wonderful dialogue and banter, and...
Jun 14, 2022


Review of The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
In The Love of My Life, Rosie Walsh offers a twisty contemporary fiction novel and psychological thriller centered around a fascinating...
May 25, 2022


Review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
This suspenseful collaboration between Clinton and Penny kept me on the edge of my seat through heart-stopping political conflicts,...
Apr 21, 2022
