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  • Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically

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

    Billy's witnessing of the mysterious crash aftermath seems bound to bring him trouble.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition

    She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House

  • Review of The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh

    For more mysteries and thrillers I've reviewed that you might like, click here.

  • Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

    Ava's inexperience is essential to her storyline, and her limited perspective creates a mystery regarding

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    I recently posted about Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year, Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year, Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year, Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare

  • My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads

    But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books Lee's detail is just fantastic in terms of Green's emotions, hopes, dreams, everyday life at the time With masterful storytelling, King builds a world within each short story that feels immediate, sometimes

  • Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites

    Fiction Stories Set in the American West, Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Kate Quinn is also the author of the fantastic titles The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, and The Alice

  • Review of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

    The Heiress is set on a North Carolina estate that's always felt claustrophobic to Cam. But his adoptive mother Ruby, an infamous character and four-time widow, was determined for him to inherit the McTavish riches. As the truths of Ruby's past become clear to the reader, additional layers of unexpected secrets begin to unfurl. When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's North Carolina's richest woman--and its most infamous. Ruby was the victim of a childhood kidnapping that turned the community of Tavistock on its head, and since then her power has grown--as has her list of dead husbands (four). She reigns high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, on her lavish estate. But her adopted son Camden is living in Colorado with his wife in a modest rental home, teaching school, and firmly determined to reject his sizeable inheritance along with the McTavish family--who are still living in the mansion--and anything to do with Ruby. After Ruby's death, strange murmurings about her past begin to surface, and Cam is forced to face questions about inheritance, legacy, and family ties that reach beyond the grave. The story is told partially through illuminating letters from Ruby laying out the unflinching facts of her past actions. When Cam returns to North Carolina to sort out the mansion's repairs, tensions run high with his cold aunt and two outrageously behaved cousins. And it becomes clear to the reader that his estranged family and Cam's beloved wife Jules aren't the only ones keeping secrets--Cam himself has been hiding some essential truths as well. As in the other Hawkins novels I've read, the story's relationships, hidden truths, and setting feel like the main elements; character development isn't a crucial part of the story's progression. Yet I felt I was enough a part of the characters' inner circle to feel a twinge of betrayal when they revealed their secrets to readers--even if they did not always come clean to each other. The Heiress has a satisfying ending that also retains some of the story's intrigue among the main characters. I received a prepublication edition of this book courtesy of NetGalley and St. Martin's Press. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? Hawkins is also the author of The Villa, Reckless Girls, and The Wife Upstairs.

  • Review of The Lost Man by Jane Harper

    Harper's mysteries read like twisty character-driven Westerns set in Australia, and things aren’t always I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

  • Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur

    MacArthur is also the author of the mystery Heart Spring Mountain.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition

    Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, disturbing undercurrent at the Kinsellas'.

  • Review of The Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me #2) by Abby Jimenez

    Jimenez inevitably offers great banter and fantastic premises, and she incorporates real-world issues

  • Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

    You can find more books like this on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

  • Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

    making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master Brave Female Spies, Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II, and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

    For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.

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

    making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master 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

  • My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads

    Blacktop Wasteland is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. #mysterysuspense, #southern, #fourstarbookreview 04 Utopia Avenue ​ In Utopia Avenue, Mitchell takes What should I add to my completely unmanageable master Greedy Reading List of books to read?

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, four young adult fantasy books plus related

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/12/23 Edition

    time while her wife Odette soars high above on the trapeze of their magical circus, the Circus of the Fantasticals with a ringmaster ruling his crew with dark powers--and someone who's after what the Circus of the Fantasticals

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition

    In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all

  • My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious Weir provides Grace with unexpected company, fascinating collaboration, fantastic interpersonal relationships Will Tell You This But Me. 07 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams ​Williams's historical fiction mystery making a difference, but I admit that I was curious as to how even a historical fiction storytelling master

  • Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells

    In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and

  • Review of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

    Ballad with my book club, and this week I reviewed When Ghosts Come Home, Wiley Cash's character-driven mystery

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

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    lifesaving Black neighbors--who share resources, offer advice, and otherwise keep to themselves--and their mysterious

  • Review of Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher

    The rest of the gang is fantastically spunky, tough, kind, and loyal--with nonbinary representation and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/1/22 Edition

    her future, shares her reliance on alcohol and her experience with depression, lists her long-term, mysterious

  • Review of The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young

    the suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious

  • Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe

    I looove a historical fiction mystery. If you do too, you might want to check out Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

    book that Michelle's inner workings will not be revealed to Helen or to the reader, and they remain a mystery

  • Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year

    Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Patrick Radden Keefe is a master of compelling, important nonfiction.

  • Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld

    In her second fantastic short-story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld explores middle age, fame, friendship

  • Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris

    Thomas Silkstone series and the Constance Piper Mystery series as well as The Light We Left Behind.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/12/22 Edition

    siblings Bellatine and Isaac, a woodworker and a con artist and street performer, are reunited to claim a mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious Daisy Jones and the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

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

    After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

  • Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    their experiences in an internment camp during World War II, as well as the novel Fallen Mountains, a mystery

  • Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    by Mary Roach Science writer Mary Roach has a way of immersing readers in what may be unfamiliar or mysterious Entangled Life is Merlin Sheldrake's enthusiastic ode to the supremely important and mysterious life

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/5/22 Edition

    new beginnings, told over six summers and a weekend; and I'm listening to And Then She Disappeared, a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/22/22 Edition

    How to Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive, and The Midnight Library. 03 The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery

  • Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    I also recently posted about: Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries

  • Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    The characters move through interesting moments and shift their understanding of previously mysterious

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

    and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious Weir provides Grace with unexpected company, fascinating collaboration, fantastic interpersonal relationships

  • Six More Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year

    But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was.

  • Six Riveting Backlist Reads

    extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter, a spunky and fantastic Cosby This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk.

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