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  • Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something

  • 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 The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

    Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/28/23 Edition

    narrative nonfiction set in the late nineteenth century West; I'm reading Kate Morton's dual-timeline mystery Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of coming home.

  • Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions Henry Thornton is a wealthy railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , and

  • 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.

  • Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

    ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma

  • 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

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

    These are generally deep dives into mysterious, often creepy situations. Strike and Robin was hinted at but not consummated. 03 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith In the third mystery

  • Review of The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

    The mystery isn't over--Truly Devious led to the disappearance of Alice Ellingham decades ago, and now And the mysterious deaths of people connected to Ellingham Academy aren't over. #series, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview

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

    friendship . 02 Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise Count me in for Irish-set novels--and for suspenseful, mysterious-past When she was old enough, Sarah ran from an emotionally cold childhood in Michigan and mysterious circumstances I also love a story involving a character's mysterious past, and I love a suspenseful story that I'm In Half His Age  McCurdy offers a complicated story about an illegal, inappropriate, mystifying, all-encompassing

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Lisa Gardner's newest Frankie Elkin missing-person mystery, Still Our Yesterdays; and I'm listening to Kirsten Bakis's gothic novel set on a cold, remote island with mysterious

  • Six Bossy Favorite Historical Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    Deanna Raybourn While Veronica and Stoker stay close to home while entering into danger and solving the mysteries A mystery surrounds a deadly moment, and the book ends with a hopeful, imperfect, heartbreaking way forward story of young love blossoming, then shriveling under the first pressures of the outside world; it's a mystery

  • Review of The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker

    Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction and fantasy

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something two timelines, a decades-old tragedy, and a modern-day descendant's discovery of her family's link to mysterious There are two mysteries surrounding the Turner Tragedy: the whodunit aspect and the unexplained disappearance This is a long (it's almost 550 pages), winding story with complicated connections and mysterious motivations Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of family--those you

  • 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 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 Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction 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

  • Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    posted about favorite reads from certain genres that I've loved reading in the past year: Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. 05 Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett In

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/11/26 Edition

    01 London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden

  • Review of The Witch Elm by Tana French

    Within a suspenseful mystery structure, French explores privilege, interconnectedness, and the many shades This is a lurking, suspenseful Tana French mystery, so I was plowing through it as usual, eager to find

  • Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

    and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking If you like books with a postapocalyptic feel, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition

    I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married

  • Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

    Despite the mysterious disappearances of children that are at the heart of the story, this primarily watching police shows), his youthful belief that he and a ragtag group of friends can quickly resolve the mystery #mysterysuspense, #india

  • Review of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    The tone of Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth was unlike any fantasy novel I’ve read—Gideon’s speech is

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

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley's upcoming literary fantasy; Empire

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery

  • Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

    Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary Laura Amy Schlitz has also written the children's book Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village as well as Splendors and Glooms, a Gothic mystery about puppeteers that

  • Review of The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap

    affected by the complication of societal intolerance for gay relationships in this period), plus the mystery

  • Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    The story is more of a thriller than a mystery; after a time we aren't wondering what happened, rather

  • Review of Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

    My book club likes to tackle a mystery read as one of our summer books, and this was our most recent

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/25 Edition

    As the community wonders at his mysterious appearance, they embrace Brandon, as he is ultimately named

  • Review of Bride by Ali Hazelwood

    Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery to this steamy interspecies romance Misery Lark is the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre in the region, and she'd prefer to literally the Alpha of the Weres, and he's as unpredictable, volatile, and unforgiving as any Were stereotype Misery As a child, Misery was given up by her family and community as collateral to keep the peace. But Misery has her own reasons for willingly entering into this marriage--her best friend's safety may

  • Review of City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi

    I loved Pobi's mystery; the character of Page, a retired detective who is pulled back onto a case; and This was a really compelling mystery/thriller—with a smart underlying commentary about gun ownership, It wouldn’t have made any material difference to events, but not putting that protection in place felt Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Science and Nature Books

    They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling ocean, interviewing the oceanographers, marine biologists, and geographers focused on exploring this mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition

    Now I'm reading Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead, the second in Elle Cosimano's playful Finlay Donovan mystery series; I'm reading Quantum Girl Theory, a recent gothic mystery about a finder of missing girls from Various misunderstandings during a publishing meeting about Finlay's upcoming mystery novel result in her receipt of a mysterious note implying that Finlay is involved in something sinister--and offering Finlay Donovan Is Killing It. 02 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan In Erin Kate Ryan's recent gothic mystery

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

    on the tone of this one yet; Connor is a little snarky, but I believe the plot is going to include mystery #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face ​ Has Colin Jost lived long enough to Concurrently reading a young adult LGBTQ mystery, a comedian's memoir, and a historical fiction story

  • Review of Fable by Adrienne Young

    young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne Young's young adult fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition

    make: stick with her contentment and comfortable current life and husband--or fulfill the dreams and fantasy

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

    that breaks and finds its way back together again; I Have Some Questions for You, a boarding-school mystery Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. It's about our societal obsession with tragedies and mysterious murders, and the tendency of bystanders

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition

    the Newman's Own brand. 03 The Night Ship by Jess Kidd Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • Review of One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner

    The heart of the mystery the emotionally tortured Frankie uncovers in the wilds of Wyoming in One Step Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series (the first was I love a character-driven mystery but haven't read any of Lisa Gardner's other series. author of Before She Disappeared, the first in the Frankie Elkin series, as well as multiple other mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition

    soon-to-be-published young adult rom-com, I Hope This Doesn't Find You; and I'm listening to a historical fiction mystery Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious

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

    I've had a fantastic reading month. If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery

  • Review of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

    act as a Hollywood movie star, linking the story's two timelines and revealing long-held secrets and mysteries

  • Review of Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine

    She fears that Minnie's death is her fault, and when Minnie asks her to complete three mysterious, questionable-feeling

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/28/22 Edition

    lives in two eras and forced to choose; and I'm reading The Box in the Woods, a stand-alone young adult mystery time travel. 03 The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson The Box in the Woods is another young adult mystery Johnson's Truly Devious series offers dark scenes, wicked mystery, blossoming attraction, loyal friendships

  • Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

    But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the

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