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The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery, magic, wonderful Robin and Edwin's love is romantic and sweet and heartbreaking and sexy; the mystery at the heart of

This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace a mysterious Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and new faces--in a set of intertwined, mysterious

This is a character-driven mystery with a twist. This is a character-driven mystery with an interesting twist.

the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery This is an absorbing young adult mystery; I listened to it as an audiobook and really liked hearing each If you like this book, you might also like the young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly

Clever Veronica and gruff Stoker will need to unravel the mystery of an ancient curse and powerful lies The mystery here is interesting and unfolds at an engaging pace, but it's not the primary focus of the past, and Raybourn offers a number of explanations for some of the previous book's alluded-to personal mysteries Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries

camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of For purely campy mysteries, you might try Finlay Donovan Is Killing It and its sequel, Finlay Donovan

I adored the romantic setup and seemingly ill-fated attraction in Saft's young adult fantasy-mystery, Meanwhile she's desperate to solve the mystery of her fellow soldiers and friends who keep disappearing I felt dissatisfied with the logistics surrounding much of the resolving of the mystery--as well as with

Meanwhile she's desperate to solve the mystery of her fellow soldiers and friends who keep disappearing In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and

This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies There are disturbingly dark issues underlying the mystery (including strict rules about caste and class Nev March won the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award for this, her debut title. You might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to

Wolfe Going into Thanksgiving weekend with an Elizabethan mystery in hand, complete with intrigue, plotting loyalists looming over Elizabeth's court, Nicholas Holt, a spy for Sir Francis Walsingham, must unravel the mystery This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. 03 Light fiction, historical fiction mystery, and celebrity memoir.

I recently mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to This one went straight to the top of my young adult mystery reading list. #youngadult, #mystery What are you reading now?

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#timetravel, #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview 02 Here and Now and Then ​ Kin Stewart was When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds

This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries studies butterflies and moths) and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history and mystery-solving The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

protagonist may or may not have murdered her best friend and is tracked down by a podcast investigating the mystery Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives a mysterious Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious do the one thing she swore she'd never do: return to the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young boy is taken from the community, culminating in a mysterious

mystery about race and history from David Joy, Those We Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series, A Treacherous Curse; and I'm reading The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei's recent science fiction thriller about a deep space expedition and a mysterious Clever Veronica and gruff Stoker will need to unravel the mystery of an ancient curse and sort out the Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her.

estranged parents, her other heartbreaking losses, her unaccounted-for hours sleepwalking, and others' mysterious podcaster taking too deep of an interest in Isabelle's personal past rather than trying to solve the mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key plot point of Willingham's newest mystery Click here for Bossy reviews of more mystery and suspense books.

ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate. But just as she's pulling closer to solving the original mystery that drew her to Ellingham Academy ( And far from forgetting about the decades-old mysteries of Ellingham Academy, Stevie is more obsessed She kept me hooked and moved things along while not making me feel mystery-manipulated.

Love Experiment, a spinoff of The Soulmate Equation, which I loved; I'm reading the upcoming Western mystery Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries tortured and killed nearby, Porter will need to delve into the area's history, ties to the Russians, and mysteries Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Undertaking, Victorian lepidopterist and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history and mystery-solving

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong one of my favorite authors, Claire Keegan; and I'm listening to Janice Hallett's unreliable narrator mystery 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Things Like These. 03 The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code explores a mysterious he's out of prison and mainly resists sinking back into illegal habits...but he's got a hunch that the mystery

Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist In Lisa Scottoline's recent suspenseful mystery What Happened to the Bennetts, Jason Bennett is a suburban Her treatment of this delicate issue within a solid, suspenseful mystery cemented my interest in reading The mystery within What Happened to the Bennetts is twisty without being manipulative, and the denouement Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas "Qas" Seif work to solve the mystery of the girls' murders Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series (The Unquiet Dead, The You might like some of the other mystery and suspense titles I've reviewed on this site.

He lays bare some of the mysteries of college admissions--aiming to offer some sanity to those of us Thomas A Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery Lady Ingram is seeking confidential answers to the mystery of the disappearance of someone revealed as client and her duty to reveal the hurtful truth to her friend as she dives into solving this complicated mystery

The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the destructive callousness and powerful mob mentality that can persist online in real life as well as in the mystery There's an extremely disturbing scene as a climax to the mystery. But the building of the mystery is satisfying, and having spent five prior books with the main characters

Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction fantasy mystery Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery A Marvellous Light was full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery, magic, wonderful dialogue to an elderly woman on an ocean liner (so she can help her beloved older brother resolve a magical mystery Is it possible that Marcellus holds the key to finding answers regarding her son's mysterious disappearance

listening to the fifth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing attraction characters, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery In this fifth book of the series, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house

of romantic, funny, steamy light fiction; the next wonderful installments in two historical fiction mystery Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her. Yume Kitasei offers plot and mystery, but this is primarily a wonderfully character-driven story--with A Study in Scarlet Women is the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

Despite some implausible details, the Atlanta-set mystery is a fast-paced read. Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, it seemed like satisfaction, but there are some grave casualties in the world of our main protagonist in this Atlanta-set mystery

month: two historical fiction stories, gothic magical realism, science fiction, a character-driven mystery , and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mysteries. American Girl by Wendy Walker This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House In A Murderous Relation, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house of debauchery

listening to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing will-they-won't-they a tease, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery

The Villa is gothic suspense told in two timelines, both at the same Italian villa, where dark mysteries flighty Chess is a popular, single self-help author and influencer, while Emily, who is emerging from a mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series of cozy mysteries Hawkins takes us back and forth from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease

Cosby's Southern small-town murder mystery, All the Sinners Bleed; and I'm reading The Night Tiger author Bao, a detective set on uncovering the mystery of the woman's identity and death, has long been fascinated also the author of The Night Tiger, a title I listed in my Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

But one by one, the Osage began to be killed under mysterious circumstances. Edgar Hoover turning to a former Texas Ranger, Tom White, to head up the group trying to figure out the mystery Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final,

A mysterious app on her phone seems to have all of the answers she needs--but Lai isn't sure what the read this final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery through unexpected attractions and the uncovering of weighty secrets, the group works to unravel the mysterious

VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. Through a series of unexpected events, she is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but

respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series of mysterious an enigmatic note written in a copy of the novel, a seeming suicide, a disappeared body, and other mysterious unexplained behavior, who seem untrustworthy and whose accounts feel unreliable, and in a grim, twisted, mysterious

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; adapt her surprise feminist bestseller into a movie--without losing her integrity or being derailed by mysterious But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and Then mysterious threats begin appearing within the script, aimed at the writers who are picking apart

Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious she swore she'd never do: return to her hometown and the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery

Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious

I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 1930s Chicago and her mysterious listening to Rebecca Makkai's novel I Have Some Questions for You (also to be published tomorrow), about a mysterious boarding school and a return to the case and all the past issues it raises; and I'm reading the newest mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's newest mystery

Desolate settings, mysterious deaths, darkness, hauntings--Halloween, here we come! In Things in Jars, Jess Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery tale gloriously steeped in details of Victorian Oh, and a mysterious, dangerous, but tragic child-creature-mermaid necessitates detective work and a In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Victorian London, which I love, within a creepy mystery Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a memoir about coping with chronic illness; a twisty mystery in which people aren't always what they seem; and a young adult mystery with heart, the second in a series was a twentysomething writer in New York City when she began having odd symptoms, terrible pain, and mysterious Laura Dave is setting up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery so far; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace a mysterious

Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

Over the course of the past two books, the Bayview Four solved mysteries and established that they were and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and fresh faces--in a new set of intertwined, mysterious unexpected comes to town, our sleuths realize that not everyone is who they say they are; that old mysteries

is the Crown Prince of Japan; Damnation Spring, Ash Davidson's dark and beautifully written literary mystery set in the Pacific Northwest; and Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson's sequel to the young adult mystery Damnation Spring is a literary mystery from Ash Davidson, and it's wonderfully wrought so far, with plenty In Holly Jackson's sequel to the wonderful young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Pip has Jackson offers layer upon layer of intrigue and twisty turns in this mystery, and Pip is as perfectly

In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anatomy: A Love Story, a gothic young adult historical fiction mystery on saying goodbye and finding new hope; and Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, the first science fiction mystery Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz In Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz's young adult gothic mystery Eason's science fiction mystery, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, band together to solve the mystery

my six favorite reads of the past month: Renaissance-set historical fiction, two historical fiction mysteries Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas This first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began By doing so, Maud aims to help her beloved older brother resolve a magical mystery that's been decades A Restless Truth is fun and quirky yet has depth, an appealingly complicated mystery, and a satisfying

I loved the futuristic space-mission capabilities, smart and strong all-woman crew, the mystery and suspicion Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her. Yume Kitasei offers plot and mystery, but this is primarily a wonderfully character-driven story--with

In Holly Jackson's young adult mystery sequel, we revisit the brave, faulted, irresistible character In Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson's sequel to the wonderful young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank you very much) the mystery Jackson offers layer upon layer of intrigue and twisty turns in this mystery.