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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

  • Review of Trust No One (Devlin and Falco #1) by Debra Webb

    Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of If you like mysteries, you might also want to look at the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/13/23 Edition

    client on the page and then in real life; and I'm reading Maria Dong's suspenseful novel that explores mystery is also a suspenseful page-turner, as Katrina follows various clues to try and resolve the menacing, mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/6/23 Edition

    Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. Looking for Jane is a story of three timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously

  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions The mystery of the book centers around a post-war haven for soldiers mentally and physically harmed by But the mystery takes a back seat in the book to Maisie's explorations of human motivations, her interest Check out this Greedy Reading List for Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had The quiet main protagonist Bill is a hero; he musters forgiveness for painful events in his past while

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    ) by Freya Marske The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery Robin and Edwin's love is romantic and sweet and heartbreaking and sexy; the mystery at the heart of 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 But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

  • Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen

    Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books

  • Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson

    I read this young adult mystery in a day, it was so good. writing her college application essays, but she is doggedly determined to get to the bottom of this mystery I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read as well

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition

    depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel, mysteries and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of her eight remaining selves mysteriously dies, shocking secrets are revealed that connect

  • Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire

    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

  • Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

    Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving This is my first Lisa Gardner book, and I love how character driven the mystery was.

  • Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

    great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon pieces of a giant robot and makes solving the mystery to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts she stumbled across as a child, but the mysteries

  • Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

    Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at water (I'm sorry, but I can't stop the puns), making the reader wonder about the nature of multiple mysterious

  • Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1) by Hank Green

    featuring unorthodox friendships, the frightening power of social media, the emergence of alien life, and mysterious able to communicate with the Carls--thereby becoming the spokesperson for a movement to protect the mysterious

  • Six of My Favorite Book Club Books of 2023

    Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences. 05 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while mysterious by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery An overly convenient situation and moment of chitchat pushes the main mystery of the story to a head-

  • Review of Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) by Tracy Deonn

    as she explores her own heritage, flexes her newfound power, and digs into the story of her mother's mysterious Was her mother connected to all of these mysterious goings-on?

  • Review of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

    intrigue and suspense; this is a patiently paced story of a time and place—which happens to have a mystery

  • Review of The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

    emotions surrounding having been assaulted in the past—in order to try to get information about the mystery If you like mysteries with twist, you may be in for Molloy's newest book, Goodnight Beautiful.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition

    the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction book Grit; and reading Katherine Faulkner's new mystery When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--she threatens to

  • Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

    deeply developed, but twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't feel plausible, but its twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery

  • Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

    A mysterious app on her phone seems to have all of the answers she needs--but Lai isn't sure what the

  • Review of The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

    I was intrigued by the explanation for one of the long-term mysteries of the book (the stealing and odd Do you feel that likable or sympathetic characters are necessary for you to feel invested in a mystery #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/20/22 Edition

    Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided

  • 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; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery

  • Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith

    I listened to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K.

  • Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding

  • Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious

  • Review of The Unwilling by John Hart

    Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. I mentioned my love for Hart's book The Last Child in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition

    #mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook ​ It's 1945. Behind a door without a key that is sometimes locked and sometimes mysteriously not, a silent companion Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, haunting stories of the past, and the superstitious hatred #historicalfiction, #mysterysuspense, #gothic, #dualstoryline, #silentcompanions What are you reading

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/31/22 Edition

    and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious the suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    ; The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave's great mystery that offers unexpected (but not manipulative) McManus's great, character-driven sequel to her young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying; and The Great behind looming secrets whose answers her mother took to her grave, establishes the link between the mysteries Laura Dave sets up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to work together McManus Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through

  • Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions

  • Six Fantastic Novels Set in North Carolina

    abandoned airplane are found in his quiet, coastal North Carolina town, Winston must try to unravel the mystery underbelly of their rural North Carolina town, and basically everything about this intricate literary mystery-thriller The Last Child appears in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

  • Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

    Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious

  • Review of Good Material by Dolly Alderton

    I listened to Good Material as an audiobook. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition

    during the communist coup of 1978, Sparks Like Stars; I'm reading Lisa Gardner's recently published mystery Stars as an audiobook. 02 One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious

  • Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson

    heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries

  • Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

    connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries

  • Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

    It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is when these individuals then disappear, Alex doesn't feel the impetus to explore their letters or a mystery

  • Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

    Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, the appearance of additional silent companions, haunting stories

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens

  • Review of Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

    Then a mysterious stranger arrives--seemingly drawn by her wavering between life and death--and promises

  • Review of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

    Then a mysterious package arrives at the shop, and A.J. Fikry is suddenly...changed.

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    Graham's Cold War Cookbook. 02 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's I looove a historical fiction mystery. you do too, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition

    of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the publicly harmless, seemingly benevolent

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/28/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about twisty mystery The Missing Piece continues his popular Dismas Hardy series.

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