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Mar 1

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...

Feb 23

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 10

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....

Jan 13

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...

Dec 22, 2022

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 6, 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...

Nov 3, 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...

Aug 2, 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...

Jun 24, 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 23, 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...

Apr 8, 2022

Six Four-Star Mysteries to Check Out, ICYMI

Solid Mystery and Suspense Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites of the year a...

Apr 5, 2022

Review of What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist takes justice into his own hands...

Mar 9, 2022

Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is vividly set in Europe and Russia...

Feb 9, 2022

Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and it ends in a satisfying whirl of...

Jan 4, 2022

Review of The Maid by Nita Prose

Nita Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery, her debut novel. In...

Dec 22, 2021

Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

I'm all in for the Cormoran Strike series. The slow build and complex details build to satisfying resolutions and keep me hooked despite...

Dec 17, 2021

Review of the Cormoran Strike series books 1-4 by Robert Galbraith

The Cormoran Strike-Robin Ellacott Saga I've been listening to the fifth installment in this series, Troubled Blood, and during my many...

Sep 29, 2021

Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

I loved Cash's Eastern North Carolina setting, the character of Sherriff Winston Barnes, and the pulsing racial, class-based, and family...

Sep 15, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes's...

Sep 7, 2021

Review of Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #2) by Holly Jackson

In Holly Jackson's young adult mystery sequel, we revisit the brave, faulted, irresistible character of Pippa Fitz-Amobi, who is drawn...

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