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You can click here for other mysteries I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby. protagonist Molly finds a hotel guest dead in his room, and her access to the room, her eccentric manner, and other's that Molly's unique set of idiosyncrasies might allow for too-easy deception, and also that seeing others capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the very same personal qualities that have led others

tracks Ollie's attempts to make sense of things after his father Rich's death from cancer; follows his mother

But when she meets Rachel, a single mother-to-be in her prenatal class, Helen begins to feel unsettled

parents want her to marry and settle down (something Viv has no interest in), Grace heads to her deceased mother's

In Namesake, Fable discovers the truth behind looming secrets whose answers her mother took to her grave

midwife and an herbalist, sent across the ocean for stealing a silver spoon; and Mathinna, the orphaned daughter open bit by tiny bit--as well as the details of the poultices, healing herbs, teas, and midwifery and other medical care with which she assists others. (However, why this evil character would continue seeking out and lingering around the others was not clear to me; I imagined that this person would likely light out for other places and wreak random havoc

Nessa's husband has died, and her twin daughters have left for college.

She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project.

Betsy Carpenter was the sixth child of eight born to a white mother and Cherokee father, and life in

husband of almost a decade (with whom she owns two restaurants and a bar in Seattle) and a toddler daughter She also begins to recognize the parts of her life and relationship that she had compromised on for others

Kieran's father is suffering from memory issues and wanders at night, and his mother is readying to move

people from different worlds within the same small Irish town and how they come together and tear each other Marianne, a solitary figure living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete whose mother

She is facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life,

After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a

The family farm in Nebraska has been foreclosed upon, his mother is gone, and his father has recently might be too central of a plot point in that it might allow for too-easy deception, and that seeing others than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal qualities that have led others But as they catch up on each other's careers and personal lives, explore, eat, drink, and celebrate, every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and unforeseen connections to each other

These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young daughter

Now he lives life as a regular guy; he works in IT, he’s happily married, and he has a beloved daughter When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel have to break all the rules of time travel to attempt the impossible: preserve the existence of his daughter There are links to other Mitchell books and characters if you're paying attention, but the book can stand I'd love to hear about others you love!

Meg Long's debut young adult novel Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers

Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other She explores our collective responsibility to each other and to our earth while highlighting the pivotal considers ten striking creatures from the ocean and their unique habits and characteristics, including the mother and if you've checked out my Bossy Book Gift Lists in the past, you know that bird books (including others

I’m dying to know how closely Abriel’s book traces the inspiring events from her mother’s incredible

form of love, and important realizations, and some brutal justice, but ignorance and pettiness lead to other Rebecca despairs at her situation, yet she is a wonderfully defiant and strong character--her mother

Her widowed mother and her longtime best friend are each in love with wonderful partners, and Shay's exes in order to host a promising radio show about relationships, they're forced to get to know each other

On the other side of the Shrines of Gaiety story line is Detective Frobisher, an upstanding outlier in For my full review and for links to Bossy reviews of other Atkinson books, please check out Shrines of the difficult relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss of his mother learning about worthwhile issues without ego, and in being actively involved in improving the lives of others For my full review (and for links to other musicians' memoirs I've loved), check out Surrender.

author mentions much of the music she finds powerful and inspiring or comforting, and she references other Much of the book is about putting one foot in front of the other despite unimaginable devastation; finding Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty

while attempting to uncover military plans and plotting the death of Jarl Brum--while protecting his daughter Each character grapples with dark monster-like aspects of themselves--and must accept others' various

When she stumbles across her daughter's elaborate road trip plan she created for her then-soon-to-be-empty-nester

As he becomes involved with the family whose daughter and ward died, Captain Jim's endearingly strong

that Molly's unique set of idiosyncrasies might allow for too-easy deception, and also that seeing others capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the very same personal qualities that have led others But things quickly take a turn as pirates and other dangers threaten the makeshift family on the Wayfarer They each have reasons to mistrust other creatures, but they have to trust and rely on each other more In Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers to the brutal

Haynes's women are vulnerable in order to try to save each other, they carve out meager existences as Her other selves seem uncannily apt to die, so Cara is able to visit 372 other Earths where her counterparts together the various bits of knowledge and savviness she's gained through tracing the steps of her many other Crying in H Mart is a complicated, layered love letter to Zauner's mother, who is dying of colorectal For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

Rooney's characters engage in extensive self-reflection while struggling to open up emotionally to each other The best friends and their love interests delve into their complex connections with each of the others I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original The Coneses are a "respectable" family, her mother says approvingly, and the father of the family is suddenly has a front-row seat to wild behavior, musical experimentation, group therapy, and all sorts of other

Bossy gift idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other And over the top of it all I can hear my own laughter. I feel powerful, strong. Peter Kaminsky is also the author dozens of other books.

She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project.

Raised by a codependent, emotionally stunted alcoholic mother who frequently abandons the kids for days

small town, where tragedy in the form of evil white men took their father from them and left their mother The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman. Anything that was wrapped up a little too neatly didn’t bother me at all; I was all in and satisfied. some old acquaintances show up with an idea that might offer some financial breathing room--if the others

People change, but for me her dramatic change from practical, protective, sometimes put-upon wife, mother Have you read any Riley Sager books--or other spooky books lately? Sager has published several other books, none of which I've read yet.

every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and unforeseen connections to each other His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to But Tess has other plans. oral history of two music idols, tracing their family lives, youthful experiences, how they met each other

to be more layered and complicated than it first seemed; and Devlin can't seem to keep her teenage daughter

Her mother Star is old friends with Walk and Vincent, and when Vincent reappears, the tenuous peace and

The story is funny, sometimes grotesque, at other times sweet, and full of surprises. But Tess has other plans. Hartman's 521-page story is immensely satisfying. have BFF Marco along, and it's satisfying to witness Bree attempting to understand with compassion her mother's

Harriet and Win were attracted to each other from the start, but they spent ages trying to deny it for long-distance while Harriet pursues her residency and Win, a furniture repair person, helps his sick mother

beginning of Arudpragasam's A Passage North, twentysomething Krishan has moved home to live with his mother

Lo is a Bay Area sixteen-year-old who's tall enough to be generally criticized by her petite Asian mother she's the heaven-appointed Guardian of California, responsible for all spirits visiting the area from other

A Memoir Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother

Her father has a prominent position in the government, and the family has plenty of love and laughter

Turner has also written a couple of other historical fiction books that look promising. 03 West ​ This So Cy leaves his ten-year-old daughter Bess with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he In Wyoming in 1870, the Bemis and Webber families have no other neighbors for miles, so they're not only inextricably interconnected to the land, they're connected to each other. If others knew of it, they'd likely use it--and Lee--to their own advantage.

She's been raised by her single mother in a mostly white northern California town, and she's never known

She's a witch who has sworn off magic; she fled her powerful mother and coven, but they didn't want to

midwife and an herbalist, sent across the ocean for stealing a silver spoon; and Mathinna, the orphaned daughter

But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which

Her mother Star is old friends with Walk and Vincent, and when Vincent reappears, he disrupts the tenuous