There's a low-key mystery Lexie is set on unraveling (key players are keeping secrets about events from

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

The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer 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

My very favorite Bossy September reads! unplanned pregnancy; the real story of a beloved figure from stage, film, and song; a missing-person mystery and outs of the Grove Park Inn's design and logistics of building were fascinating; Belle's research serves panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her sister's favorite fantasy series

Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year For my full review, see Utopia Avenue. 04 Long Bright River by Liz Moore Long Bright River is a mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery (This premise reminded me somewhat of the TV series "The Boys.") I loooooved this book.

My very favorite reads so far this year! Reading and adoring that book requires initially reading the first book in the series--which I recommend We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books But then her daring best friend (who writes sexy romance novels!)

Family Upstairs, Jewell provides sinister goings-on, incredible cruelties, desperate self-preservation, mysteries There's a satisfying wrap-up and a series of denouements and moments of redemption—yet Jewell also leaves

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

In the second book in the series, Amina seeks a magical artifact, but she finds herself on an island Shannon Chakraborty wrote the first book in this series, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, and also

I loved every bit of the first book in Bovalino's Hand and the Heart series. Bovalino The second book in the Hand and the Heart series is currently scheduled for publication in fall

challenges, How to Lose Your Mother ; I'm listening to Lyla Sage's Western rom-com, the first in a series Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch #1) by Lyla Sage In the first book in Lyla Sage's modern-day Western romance series There are three more books in this series. 03 O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker I bought O Caledonia at

Reading Lists Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West, Six Historical Fiction Mysteries There are additional books in the Sarah Agnes Prine series: Sarah's Quilt, The Star Garden, and Light Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, which is made up of four young adult fantasy

O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , in which the heir to a galaxy-wide mining fortune Sarah Manguso is also the author of Very Cold People . 02 Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicenzio Catalina O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir O'Keefe is also the author of the The Protectorate series and The Scorched Continent series.

An individual tragic end also serves as a heroic sacrifice within a larger and extremely important fight Ballad with my book club, and this week I reviewed When Ghosts Come Home, Wiley Cash's character-driven mystery

My very favorite reads of 2024! , My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads , My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads , and My Twelve Favorite 2020 In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious Are Here . 10 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually

an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series

novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted  and Spinning Silver  as well as the Scholomance series Novik has also written a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series. Colm Toibin is also the author of The Master , The Magician , and other novels. 03 Trespasses by Louise

life dramas large and small, This Is Not About Us ; I'm listening to Paula Lafferty's first novel in a series Her love Vincent died in an accident, her father is very ill, she's waiting tables, and she feels generally This is the first in a series from Lafferty about Vera/Guinevere.

; I'm also listening to the first in Antonia Hodgson's smart, charming, intricately plotted fantasy series , The Raven Scholar ; and I'm listening to the first in Devney Perry's romantasy series, Shield of Sparrows 01 Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser File my reading of I lied to myself about how much horrifying material I could stomach--and how much more disturbing I would And after a series of unlikely, unfortunate events, bookworm Neema becomes one of them--the least threatening

This is the second in Kent's Carrier series, but it's not necessary to read The Wolves of Andover first A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with The Last Graduate is the second book in the Scholomance series. The Golden Enclaves, the third book in the series, was published in fall 2022. 04 The Year of the Witching Tower and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even stronger as the series

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

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

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

that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history that has mysterious With Nico's troublemaking and incessant challenges to the status quo serving as a catalyst for fast-paced When Jax, a social worker, gets a series of frantic missed calls from her sister Lexie, she assumes Lexie

My very favorite reads so far this year! Reading and adoring that book requires initially reading the first book in the series--which I recommend We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books But then her daring best friend (who writes sexy romance novels!)

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

Power , Vengeful , and the wonderful Invisible Life of Addie LaRue , as well as the Shades of Magic series (The first two books in that series are A Darker Shade of Magic  and A Gathering of Shadows , each of

of an author developing early-onset Alzheimer's who relies on a superfan to help her finish out her series 01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series She's months late delivering the newest installment of the series, and her publisher and fans are losing

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

Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children in orphanages, to a mysterious Linus is expected to report back with details about what Arthur Parnassus, the mysterious master on site Plus there is something mysterious about both the caretakers of the children and island, like maybe something

Harper's mysteries read like twisty character-driven Westerns set in Australia, and things aren’t always Harper has also written two books in her Aaron Falk series so far, The Dry and Force of Nature. I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

My very favorite Bossy January reads! 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

, inept individuals), she attempts to save her autistic teenaged son Trip, who, through an unlikely series A surreal, extended series of sexual fetish vignettes pop up regarding dead-spirit Sandra and a man from

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

controlling father is high up in the school board, so while he lords over her this "favor" of allowing her to serve But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious historical fiction story, but I became fully hooked as the tale morphed into something wonderfully eerie

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 Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year You can also check out My Very Patrick Radden Keefe is a master of compelling, important nonfiction.

Bossy Bookworm's Very Favorite Books of 2022..So Far! The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious Will Tell You This But Me. 07 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams ​Williams's historical fiction mystery memoir explores serious issues yet also made me laugh out loud.

After long months of mystery and suffering and tests that went nowhere, she finally received a diagnosis have done the same selfless work in Will's position and in his twenties, Suleika seems to consider seriously

The Second Death of Locke ; I'm listening to the first in Ariel Sullivan's futuristic sci-fi romance series The next installment in this series, Sullivan's first, is scheduled for publication in March under the

and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious

Fiction Stories Set in the American West, Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Mysteries about women, marriage, sex, politics, public and private behavior—and of course "society," which almost serves I would very happily read a full Little House on the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life.

Time by Constance Sayers; and Nora Roberts's witchy Cousins O'Dwyer trilogy and Chronicles of the One series This is the second in Kent's Carrier series, but it's not necessary to read The Wolves of Andover first Deadly Education (Scholomance #1) by Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series The Last Graduate is the second book in the Schlomance series. The Golden Enclaves, the third book in the series, is expected to be published in 2022. 04 The Year of

titles in the summer, a nonfiction doorstop in the winter, historical fiction always, and sometimes a mystery

Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly My book club likes to tackle a mystery read as one of our summer books, and this was our most recent

This is the first in Muir's Locked Tomb series. For my full review, check out Gideon the Ninth, and you can also find my review of the second in this series I haven't yet read the third book in this series, Nona the Ninth, or the fourth, Alecto the Ninth. 03

challenges led to his eventual emergence as the children's book author of the successful Hank Zipzer series Henry Winkler is the author of the Hank Zipzer series (Niagara Falls, Or Does It? is the first) and the Ghost Buddy series.

This is not sentimental and is very powerful, and I've already been brought to tears while listening How to Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive, and The Midnight Library. 03 The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery

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 Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Trying) by Cristina Fernandez How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) was also one of my overall Very And Not Die Trying). 03 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Marcellus the octopus is the very

I also recently posted about: Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Doctors and Friends. 03 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub This Time Tomorrow was also one of my overall Very My Name Is Lucy Barton), and we see that her lifelong ability to cope with despair and grim events serve

juvenile--she employed junior-high hard-to-get, passive-aggressive challenges as well as attempted-mysteriousness