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  • Review of One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus

    This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace a mysterious Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and new faces--in a set of intertwined, mysterious

  • Review of The Course of All Treasons: An Elizabethan Spy Mystery by Suzanne M. Wolfe

    Nick is an appealing character, I adored the detailed setting, and the mystery's resolution makes sense I hoped this was going to be the perfect cozy book for reading over a long weekend: an Elizabethan mystery This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. If you like mysteries and historical fiction like I do, you might also like some of the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Review of Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

    I adored the romantic setup and seemingly ill-fated attraction in Saft's young adult fantasy-mystery, Meanwhile she's desperate to solve the mystery of her fellow soldiers and friends who keep disappearing I felt dissatisfied with the logistics surrounding much of the resolving of the mystery--as well as with

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/16/21 Edition

    Meanwhile she's desperate to solve the mystery of her fellow soldiers and friends who keep disappearing In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and

  • Review of One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

    the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery This is an absorbing young adult mystery; I listened to it as an audiobook and really liked hearing each If you like this book, you might also like the young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly

  • Review of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

    #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #LGBTQ, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March

    This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies There are disturbingly dark issues underlying the mystery (including strict rules about caste and class Nev March won the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award for this, her debut title. You might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition

    Wolfe Going into Thanksgiving weekend with an Elizabethan mystery in hand, complete with intrigue, plotting loyalists looming over Elizabeth's court, Nicholas Holt, a spy for Sir Francis Walsingham, must unravel the mystery This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. 03 Light fiction, historical fiction mystery, and celebrity memoir.

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/3/20 Edition

    I recently mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to This one went straight to the top of my young adult mystery reading list. #youngadult, #mystery What are you reading now?

  • Review of Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson

    The fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious young adult mystery series showcases Stevie Bell's instincts But everything is upended when a decades-old mystery of deaths within a tight circle of Cambridge friends Her passion is solving mysteries, and, luckily, she finds a satisfying distraction in the form of the unsolved mystery involving David's new British friend's aunt--one of the friends in the group who had The mystery's resolution isn't too easy, and Stevie leans on procedure, dogged determination, and her

  • Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love

    #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview 02 My Lady Jane: The Lady Janies Series ​ I'd had

  • Review of An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) by Deanna Raybourn

    While Veronica and Stoker stay close to home while entering into danger and solving the mysteries in sixth book of the wonderful Deanna Raybourn's  feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Part of the mystery went in the direction I anticipated, which I didn't mind at all, and there's a ramped-up danger and secondary mystery that is chilling in its unflinching detail toward the end of the book.

  • Review of Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaughy

    Mysteries abound within McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore , but the story is largely an atmospheric story of When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest There are mysteries at the center of the story, but for me this was a captivating, atmospheric dive into

  • Review of Heartwood by Amity Gaige

    This mystery hit the spot for me. earned her place, and the behind-the-scenes gears that begin to turn and are instrumental in solving the mystery

  • Review of Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger

    series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique talents, clever minds, a nose for mystery by dismantling a clock or to arrive to tea disheveled, having climbed a nearby tree to ponder life's mysteries , than she is to master the proper curtsy or perfect her needlework, as is becoming to a Victorian-era and quirky school leadership, the persistent young people's shifting knowledge base, and the strange mystery

  • Review of The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

    behind-the-scenes World War II British codebreaking of Nazi messages, along with a rich back story and mysterious Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/7/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Gail Carriger's young adult steampunk mystery Berry's recently published debut novel, a twisty mystery. What are you reading, bookworms? herself by dismantling a clock or arrive to tea disheveled, having climbed a nearby tree to ponder life's mysteries It turns out that the mystery girl is her Aunt Carol, who was one of six Black girls to go missing in family, she becomes determined to first dig into what happened to her aunt and solve the long-held mystery

  • Review of To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

    Eowyn Ivey is masterful at intertwining fantastical elements with the grounding of the vivid details of the World explores desperate survival, indigenous peoples' connection to the natural world, and mysterious When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

  • Review of A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

    This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries studies butterflies and moths) and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history and mystery-solving The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/19/26 Edition

    In 1664, Alouette is the daughter of a master dyer at the famous Gobelin Tapestry Works. The tone and the cozy-magical-mystery focus is so far reminding me of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping And Rocky is facing a mysterious, possibly grave, illness that doctors find difficult to diagnose.

  • Review of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

    Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious she swore she'd never do: return to her hometown and the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery

  • Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

    estranged parents, her other heartbreaking losses, her unaccounted-for hours sleepwalking, and others' mysterious podcaster taking too deep of an interest in Isabelle's personal past rather than trying to solve the mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key plot point of Willingham's newest mystery Click here for Bossy reviews of more mystery and suspense books.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition

    listening to the fifth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing attraction characters, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery In this fifth book of the series, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house

  • Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes

    #timetravel, #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview 02 Here and Now and Then ​ Kin Stewart was When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds

  • Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham

    Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house next to a

  • Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan

    Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas "Qas" Seif work to solve the mystery of the girls' murders Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series (The Unquiet Dead, The You might like some of the other mystery and suspense titles I've reviewed on this site.

  • Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith

    The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the destructive callousness and powerful mob mentality that can persist online in real life as well as in the mystery There's an extremely disturbing scene as a climax to the mystery. But the building of the mystery is satisfying, and having spent five prior books with the main characters

  • Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen

    Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books

  • Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy

    respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series of mysterious an enigmatic note written in a copy of the novel, a seeming suicide, a disappeared body, and other mysterious unexplained behavior, who seem untrustworthy and whose accounts feel unreliable, and in a grim, twisted, mysterious

  • Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

    Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young It's about our societal obsession with tragedies and mysterious murders, and the tendency of bystanders

  • Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith

    I listened to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition

    listening to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing will-they-won't-they a tease, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery

  • Review of All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris

    Despite some implausible details, the Atlanta-set mystery is a fast-paced read. Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, it seemed like satisfaction, but there are some grave casualties in the world of our main protagonist in this Atlanta-set mystery

  • Review of What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

    Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist In Lisa Scottoline's recent suspenseful mystery What Happened to the Bennetts, Jason Bennett is a suburban Her treatment of this delicate issue within a solid, suspenseful mystery cemented my interest in reading The mystery within What Happened to the Bennetts is twisty without being manipulative, and the denouement Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

  • Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson

    ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate. But just as she's pulling closer to solving the original mystery that drew her to Ellingham Academy ( And far from forgetting about the decades-old mysteries of Ellingham Academy, Stevie is more obsessed She kept me hooked and moved things along while not making me feel mystery-manipulated.

  • Review of The Wife and the Widow by Christian White

    White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/1/26 Edition

    diverging paths of two Southern women; I'm listening to Inside Man , the second book in the Head Cases mystery series about a special FBI unit solving complex mysteries; and I'm listening to memoirist Jennette McCurdy's That first book was a smart, intriguing, and satisfying mystery. militias arming themselves with black-market guns, a serial killer, and missing women with something mysterious I heard about this series in a roundup of mystery novels recommended by national security agents. 03

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/13/26 Edition

    Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page; I'm reading the third in Tana French's Irish-set Cal Hooper mystery series, The Keeper ; and I'm reading a mystery built around a fictitious podcast, This Story Might Save She receives a mysterious message from the owner of a local London bookshop and learns that Joe had made been highly involved in the management of the podcast and Benny and Joy's finances, go missing under mysterious Another mystery that invoves a podcaster is the great novel Listen for the Lie .

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/7/26 Edition

    King's dry, lovely mystery featuring a retired Sherlock Holmes and a young Mary Russell, The Beekeeper's crews on quests, please check out the titles at this link. 02 The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell Mystery Soon they're working together to solve the mystery of a senator's kidnapped daughter, and Mary is quickly King is also the author of many other mysteries. 03 Mother Tongue: A Memoir by Sara Novic When Sara Nović

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/12/26 Edition

    end of her marriage, Strangers ; I'm listening to Listen for the Lie author Ashley Elston's upcoming mystery Anatomy of an Alibi ; and I'm listening to Jennifer Givhan's mystery-thriller-horror story featuring courtesy of NetGalley and Random House. 02 Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston I loved Ashley Elston's mystery one of my Bossy Fiction Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List ; and it was on my recent list of Four-Star Mysteries novel Salt Bones made it onto multiple best-of lists for 2025, and I've been in a mystery-reading mood

  • Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

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

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition

    #mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook ​ It's 1945. Behind a door without a key that is sometimes locked and sometimes mysteriously not, a silent companion Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, haunting stories of the past, and the superstitious hatred #historicalfiction, #mysterysuspense, #gothic, #dualstoryline, #silentcompanions What are you reading

  • Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

    In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

  • Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

    Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence situations at the heart of the book to be revealed slowly--aren't too convenient, and they add layers to the mystery

  • Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    story in any genre, and this Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light fiction/rom-com, mystery One Last Stop . 02 The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell In Lisa Maxwell's The Last Magician , a smart master I appreciated the character of Esta as a smart master thief who can bend time, and I loved the 1901 New Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding

  • Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

    Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/3/21 Edition

    is the Crown Prince of Japan; Damnation Spring, Ash Davidson's dark and beautifully written literary mystery set in the Pacific Northwest; and Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson's sequel to the young adult mystery Damnation Spring is a literary mystery from Ash Davidson, and it's wonderfully wrought so far, with plenty In Holly Jackson's sequel to the wonderful young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Pip has Jackson offers layer upon layer of intrigue and twisty turns in this mystery, and Pip is as perfectly

  • Review of The Maid by Nita Prose

    Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery The lighthearted aspect of this mystery reminds me a little bit of Finley Donovan Is Killing It, but

  • Review of Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #2) by Holly Jackson

    In Holly Jackson's young adult mystery sequel, we revisit the brave, faulted, irresistible character In Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson's sequel to the wonderful young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank you very much) the mystery Jackson offers layer upon layer of intrigue and twisty turns in this mystery.

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