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- Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant
But when her estranged old friend Janessa goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Emlyn must team
- Review of One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner
She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing In One Step Too Far, she turns her attention to a cold case in Wyoming: a man who went missing in a national I like that Frankie is an equal-opportunity problem solver, but I admit that I missed the focus on searching
- Review of A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica Speedwell series, set in 1888 London, Veronica and Stoker seek the whereabouts of a man who went missing Stoker's past, and Raybourn offers a number of explanations for some of the previous book's alluded-to personal
- Review of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie #6) by Kate Atkinson
former partner, who reluctantly allows herself to get drawn into his search for his clients' mother's missing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/18/23 Edition
Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a But the person receiving these missives is not Forest, but Iris's work nemesis, Roman.
- Review of The Blood of the Old Kings (Bleeding Empire #1) by Sung-Il Kim
When his best friend goes missing, he'll do anything to find out what's happened to her.
- Review of The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Now she's coming to terms with the recent and tragic loss of the person she loved and the future she wrote One Day in December, which looks like it plays with the idea of "what could have been" in a missed-chances
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition
I have a tough time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's
- Review of World Running Down by Al Hess
Why strangers needed to ask about a person's appearance, gender, or physical makeup at all he would likely "meat suit") in order to find Val and Ace and offer them a lucrative job: to track down a group of missing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/25 Edition
Torn between two lives, he falls back into home life but misses the city.
- Review of You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
expectations related to gender and relationships while Sittenfeld builds characters whose lives are shaped by missed
- Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
The summer Chloe Davis was twelve, six girls went missing in her rural Louisiana community. When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic.
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Or that her shift in feelings of responsibility could be part of her cutting loose in areas of her personal impactful interpersonal conflicts, and Millie's growing interest in the professor distracts her so that she misses in unintentionally unhelpful ways (meanwhile the truth of the situation is not revealed by the one person
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, near misses , and quick thinking--and resistance members' fervor, often inspired by personal tragedies at the hands
- Review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak also wrote the lovely The Island of Missing Trees .
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/20/25 Edition
Elif Shafak is also the author of The Island of Missing Trees . 03 Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and influential high and low moments in her personal Williams shares stories of her childhood, her musical influences, and pivotal moments in her career and personal young woman she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition to it; how she missed
- Review of The Maid by Nita Prose
While Molly herself frequently misses the implications of the details she meticulously observes, the surprises, and Molly seems more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal
- Review of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition
Byrd, Jane goes missing.
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
tragedy; Quantum Girl Theory, Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction-mystery-speculative fiction work about missing His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to Mary Garrett focuses on finding missing girls, and she keeps her own past, her secrets, and her emotions Jim Crow South to investigate a girl who has disappeared, she finds that two Black girls have gone missing As Mary's search for all three girls intensifies, we find that Mary herself was a "missing girl," Paula
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition
She relocates to Los Angeles and is adjusting to the showy personas she's encountering and the process I'm having a tough time with the premise of this one but am curious as to whether I'm missing something
- Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year
Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a But the person receiving these missives is not Forest, but Iris's work nemesis, Roman. systematically assassinated in public shows of retaliation for their past crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing
- Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year
surprises, and Molly seems more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the very same personal Mary Garrett focuses on finding missing girls, and she keeps her own past, her secrets, and her emotions Jim Crow South to investigate a girl who has disappeared, she finds that two Black girls have gone missing As Mary's search for all three girls intensifies, we find that Mary herself was a "missing girl," Paula
- Review of The Change by Kristen Miller
Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of a missing If you like books about strong women searching for missing girls, you might also like the book Before
- Review of Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld
cognitive challenges until late in the book when multiple mentions were made regarding this; maybe I simple missed
- Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
time their sophomore year is half over, one of the fraternity boys from next door is dead, Lucy is missing
- Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery of missing
- Review of Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #2) by Holly Jackson
drawn back into complex detective work when no one else can or will help her friend whose brother is missing His twenty-four-year-old brother Jamie is missing, the police aren't responding with any urgency, and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition
She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing In One Step Too Far, she turns her attention to a cold case in Wyoming: a man went missing in a national
- Review of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood
A book I loved, in case you missed it: Wood's memoir is captivating and lovely, poignant, sweet without ICYMI: A Book I Loved I had to post about this book in case you missed it when it was first published
- Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the Stay tuned for my upcoming ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) review of The Last Ballad.
- Review of Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison
In the case of Blue Hour, I missed the very clear note "A Novel" on the cover while downloading the audiobook
- Review of Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea
Have they missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they ended
- Review of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
Mary Laura Philpott is also the author of the memoir I Miss You When I Blink.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition
When his best friend goes missing, he'll do anything to find out what's happened to her.
- Shhh! Kid and Teen Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
The situation may lead to personal and career frustration--and maybe heartbreak. America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share If you've missed the text of real-life one-star reviews left by disappointed or disgruntled visitors who frequently miss cookbooks for kids in prior gift lists, but this book combines a couple of things I love for a young person
- Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
frequently feels geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist regarding the missing
- Review of A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.
- Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition
friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing
- Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
-before the devastating car crash upon his arrival in town that left him reeling--was to locate two missing
- Review of Paper & Blood (Ink & Sigil #2) by Kevin Hearne
characters from Ink & Sigil, but I felt bogged down by recounted stories and detailed logistics, and I missed I missed the character growth from book one, and I found myself wanting a little more of the flashy,
- Six Riveting Backlist Reads
In case you missed them the first time around, I'm reposting them as this summer begins so you can add wonderfully faulted character. who when not in crisis takes stock of himself and aims to be a better person and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young person
- Review of One Day in December by Josie Silver
Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in One Day in December offers a missed-chances setup with enormous repercussions.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition
Or will they have missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/9/23 Edition
criminals are assassinated in public show of retaliation for their crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing
- Review of Foster by Claire Keegan
Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Carley Fortune's newest light fiction about a missed opportunity
- Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
Then tragedy struck: Flora went missing and was presumed to be dead.