But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious

But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

Before crossing over from the living forever, Wallace spends time in a mysterious in-between place (a

relationship with her first husband, William, and reflects on the fact that he has always been somewhat of a mystery

Hillier's thriller jumps back and forth in time, deftly weaving a web of secrets and lies, daring escape, broken trust, revenge, and things that aren't quite as they seem. ...and so this was her life, because it had always been her life, and it would either kill her, or she would survive it. Paris Peralta is arrested in her home bathroom. She's holding a straight razor and covered in blood, and her celebrity husband Jimmy Peralta, a 68-year-old comedian who's been making a recent comeback--is dead in the bathtub with a cut across his femoral artery. Paris loved her husband, and she's shocked and grieved that he's dead. But she's also alert enough to know that because of the inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current life--a peaceful, comfortable life that she spent so long cultivating--is about to be upended, and her safety along with it. Because when photos surface of Paris being taken away in handcuffs, she knows that dark forces from her past will almost certainly come calling. Because while you can reinvent yourself, you can’t outrun yourself. As a woman once reminded her a long time ago, the common denominator in all the terrible things that have happened to you is you. Meanwhile, killer Ruby Reyes, the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder twenty-five years earlier. She knows who Paris Peralta really is, and when Ruby is released from prison early, she's more than willing to try to sacrifice Paris and destroy her careful web of lies. Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young victim to her present, in which she's taken charge of her life and controls her destiny--or so she thought. Things We Do in the Dark involves mistaken identities, betrayals, secrets and lies, fierce loyalty between friends who are like family--and horrific cruelties enacted by blood relations. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I received a prepublication digital edition of this book courtesy of St. Martin's Press and NetGalley. Jennifer Hillier is also the author of Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts.

Author Jeff Zentner is also the author of Goodbye Days , a book I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

more dystopian stories, check out Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic

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

Marie Benedict is also the author of The Other Einstein, The Mystery of Mrs.

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

Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries

The mother-daughter dynamic and home situation is possibly intended to be dramatic and mysterious, but Margot wants to get to the bottom of a big mystery.

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 The family's vast amount of genetic material--from both those affected by and those free from mental

In Williams's historical fiction mystery, four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives

Feared and mysterious, Zetian is matched with the most controversial, deadly male pilot around, Li Shimin

examines her relationship with her first husband and considers how he has always been somewhat of a mystery

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved.

The two disparate stories intersect in an unlikely way in 1890s Arizona Territory, and fantastical elements Jess's voice was fantastic.

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. That book introduced the fantastic best-friend character of Felicity "Fizzy" Chen.

--she's left behind everything she knows in a desperate attempt to make things right by keeping her mysterious

I looooooved the wonderful dark humor and unexpected details in A Deadly Education and the fantastic El continues to be a fantastically grumpy, powerful, whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward character realize, which is just how El wanted it--feared she might accidentally take out Orion before she could master Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds

I thought this was fantastic. He's a fantastic character I loved. This great book by C.A. I thought this was fantastic. What did you think? This book is part of my Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.

Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious Click here for my full review of The Excitements. 04 Good Material by Dolly Alderton Alderton's literary I listened to Good Material as an audiobook. Please click here for my full review of Good Material. 05 The Women by Kristin Hannah Hannah offers a

I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically funny dialogue

I mentioned this book (along with the new mystery The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins and the young adult

Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year Six Historical Fiction Mysteries about the real life of a freed black man—with the details of his life imagined and elaborated on in fantastic

I'm listening to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm

I felt as though he deliberately kept us in a plodding pace to emphasize the unwavering, repetitive misery explores the relentless oppression and hopelessness of slavery, the resigned existence of the imprisoned, masters But the white master of the plantation is Hiram's biological father, and composed young Hiram is set He may not inherit, nor may he rise above his station as owned and commanded by his white master. his mysterious powers that allow for shifts in time and space.

There's a low-key mystery Lexie is set on unraveling (key players are keeping secrets about events from Light We Cannot See; The Women in the Castle, which includes a complicated element of bravery; and the fantastic

Divya is also the author of Machinehood, a book I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic

Namesake was fantastic, and I wish more books were coming in this series. Namesake was fantastic--although I didn't completely buy the wrap-up at the end regarding Saint and his

Boulley weaves fantastically fluid and frequent details of indigenous tradition into Daunis's everyday between action, thought, and feeling, especially in the earlier sections of the book, but Boulley weaves fantastically

Alexandra Andrews's twisty-turny mystery about a reclusive author and the ambitious assistant she takes Fisher is candid, funny, charmingly offbeat, and she's mastered the art of honest self-examination. I loved listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form and feel factors of bloodthirsty vengeance and war between Languoreth's husband and his allies and Lailoken's master

Mexico to the U.S. to reunite with her parent--and her disillusionment upon her arrival; and an upcoming mystery

This lighthearted aspect of this mystery reminds me a little bit of Finley Donovan Is Killing It, but

He's a fantastic character I loved. This great book by C.A. also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone book in the same series, is fantastic

The Moonstruck references were fantastic. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

I will, after all, happily read stories about talking dragons, or fantastical worlds, or time travel,

When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about

band-centered stories, but luckily for us readers, I seem to be dead wrong, because so many authors are masters 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

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

Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious

And if not, does he have self-mastery to take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted?

pasts; the rich fictional history of an esteemed figure in early twentieth century New York and his mysterious

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.

attention for her incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband is mysteriously

I mentioned Station Eleven in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

was a twentysomething writer in New York City when she began having odd symptoms, terrible pain, and mysterious

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry's newest light fiction novel about best friends and polar opposites Poppy and Alex on their annual vacation; Now You Say Yes, Bill Harley's irresistible middle-grade novel about orphans on a cross-country journey as they desperately try to stay together as a family; and Don't Look for Me, Wendy Walker's suspenseful, character-driven novel about a mother coping with the worst grief imaginable while a lurking evil endangers key characters' safety. Which books are you reading and enjoying these days, bookworms? 01 People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry In Emily Henry's newest novel People We Meet on Vacation, best friends and polar opposites Alex and Poppy are on their annual vacation. Poppy is impulsive and fun-loving, and Alex would generally rather stay home and read than seek out adventure. The pair has long been emotionally inseparable despite living in different cities--Poppy in New York and Alex in their small hometown. But two years ago on their vacation, something BIG happened. It threatened their friendship and continues to loom over everything between them. They haven't talked about any of it, but Poppy has convinced Alex to join her again on vacation to try to recapture their effortless times together. Surely, she thinks, they can fix everything in a week. She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened. This is already feeling like a will they/won't they story I'll love. Henry's Beach Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism. 02 Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley In Bill Harley's newest work, the middle-grade novel Now You Say Yes, we follow newly orphaned fifteen-year-old Mari and her on-the-spectrum nine-year-old stepbrother, Connor, as they strike out on a cross-country journey in a desperate attempt to avoid foster care. Mari, who finds that she's tough in the face of adversity, is bent on staying with her brother, preserving the only family they each have left. But she's not legally an adult, and she doesn't have many options of who she can rely on to keep them safe. Harley's story about loyalty, loss, and pushing forward is beautiful; it's sometimes heartbreaking and consistently lovely. 03 Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker Molly Clarke is dealing with bottomless grief. Her youngest daughter died in an unthinkable accident, and for Molly, making her way through each day is like wading through waters threatening to drown her. So she walks away--from her distant husband, her always-furious oldest daughter, her absent middle son, her broken life, and her relentless pain. At least, that's what the clues left behind seem to indicate. But the truth of what has occurred is horrible, terrifying, twisty--and fascinating. Walker's premise is difficult to read and experience on the page, but the character depth, exploration of grief, and self-actualization she offers in Don't Look for Me is pleasantly surprising and continues to build and grow. I'm flying through this tale and can't wait to find out what's what.