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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/10/25 Edition

    Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Black Woods, Blue Sky , literary fiction about a single mother and mysterious ; and I'm reading Death at Morning House , a stand-alone young-adult mystery by the author of the Truly But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was. Can Marlowe solve the mystery of what happened there before she is targeted as the next victim?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/25/25 Edition

    her complicated family and in the world, Vera, or Faith ; I'm reading Steve Cavanagh's twisty revenge mystery Publishing Group and NetGalley. 02 Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh In Steve Cavanagh's twisty mystery This is the first mystery I've read by Steve Cavanagh.

  • Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles . find my other Jane Harper reviews here . 02 The Wife and the Widow by Christian White White's twisty mystery This was like a Secret Garden for grown-ups, with intertwined, mysterious stories from 1900, 1975, and For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves . 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year .

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition

    AI, starships, and revenge, Ancillary Justice ; and I'm listening to Maureen Johnson's young adult mystery But everything is upended when a decades-old mystery seems to be the cause of a new friend's aunt's disappearance Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery series: Truly Devious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/5/25 Edition

    emotional underpinnings, Say You'll Remember Me ; and I'm reading Olivia Waite's slim science fiction-mystery . 03 Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite In Olivia Waite's slim science-fiction mystery In this outer-space-set mystery, Dorothy must figure out who's behind the destruction and how to save

  • 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.

  • Review of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

    I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two timelines, the privilege and working I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually Many mysterious elements are cleared up at the end of the book in satisfying swirls of truth; all the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/25 Edition

    Greatest Hits ; I'm listening to Miranda July's All Fours ; and I'm reading Christina Lynch's bighearted mystery Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. So far this is a cute--at times a little too cute for my taste--mystery that seems sure to be headed

  • 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 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, 11/25/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Creation Lake , Rachel Kushner's noir, dark humor mystery; I'm When she meets Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young activists, she believes she's manipulating Kushner brings dark humor and noir mystery to the story of Creation Lake .

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition

    protagonist may or may not have murdered her best friend and is tracked down by a podcast investigating the mystery Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives a mysterious Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious do the one thing she swore she'd never do: return to the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young boy is taken from the community, culminating in a mysterious

  • Review of Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    band, its making, and its unmaking, through interviews with various characters that illuminate the mysterious their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition

    mystery about race and history from David Joy, Those We Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series, A Treacherous Curse; and I'm reading The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei's recent science fiction thriller about a deep space expedition and a mysterious Clever Veronica and gruff Stoker will need to unravel the mystery of an ancient curse and sort out the Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her.

  • Review of The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path #1) by Antonia Hodgson

    The first book in Hodgson's trilogy is smart, mysterious, charming, and layered. to Neema and to the plot, and they become a mysterious, mischievous, sometimes sulking, often confusing

  • 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.

  • Review of Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

    Frances White's debut is a locked-room mystery on a magical ship full of uncertain alliances, deadly If you're interested in other Bossy reviews of fantasy mysteries I've enjoyed, check out the titles at

  • Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

    through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious The situations around relationships and life choices are often messy, complex, mystifying, and frustrating Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

  • Ten Bossy Spring Favorites

    There's a book of short stories; one nonfiction book; a memoir; an atmospheric, mysterious novel; historical rom-com with a historical fiction element; a story about music and sisters told in two timelines; a mystery that's full of surprises; and a historical fiction mystery. Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. Famous Last Words  is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian McAllister.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/5/24 Edition

    I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , an art-focused historical fiction mystery in two timelines; I'm reading The Tainted Cup , a fascinating fantasy-science-fiction mystery by Robert The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , Ellery Lloyd offers a gorgeously wrought historical fiction mystery

  • Review of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

    in a female-only boarding house in 1950s, McCarthy-era Washington, D.C., bookended by the story of a mysterious The Briar Club is bookended by a mysterious murder.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition

    during the Dust Bowl, The Antidote ; and I'm listening to Gillian McAllister's newest twisty, smart mystery Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries 03 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister Famous Last Words is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/24/23 Edition

    Love Experiment, a spinoff of The Soulmate Equation, which I loved; I'm reading the upcoming Western mystery Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries tortured and killed nearby, Porter will need to delve into the area's history, ties to the Russians, and mysteries Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Undertaking, Victorian lepidopterist and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history and mystery-solving

  • 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong one of my favorite authors, Claire Keegan; and I'm listening to Janice Hallett's unreliable narrator mystery 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Things Like These. 03 The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code explores a mysterious he's out of prison and mainly resists sinking back into illegal habits...but he's got a hunch that the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/25 Edition

    , the Victorian-England-set historical fiction The Fraud ; and I'm reading Richard Osman's charming mystery In the first installment in Osman's mystery series, four septuagenarians meet each week to discuss unsolved

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    He lays bare some of the mysteries of college admissions--aiming to offer some sanity to those of us Thomas A Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery Lady Ingram is seeking confidential answers to the mystery of the disappearance of someone revealed as client and her duty to reveal the hurtful truth to her friend as she dives into solving this complicated mystery

  • 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

  • Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

    A mysterious therapy center lies in the California desert, and its services are free, but they're only But participation requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious, purportedly helpful

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition

    trilogy, Akata Witch , Noor , Remote Control , and other works. 03 The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick A mysterious without debilitating sorrow, but participating requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious

  • 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

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    Graham's Cold War Cookbook . 02 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's I looove a historical fiction mystery. you do too, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition

    justice, Heart, Be at Peace ; I'm listening to the 31-hour audiobook of the latest Cormoran Strike mystery I'm reading the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, in which a dismembered body and Freemason

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

    of romantic, funny, steamy light fiction; the next wonderful installments in two historical fiction mystery Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her. Yume Kitasei offers plot and mystery, but this is primarily a wonderfully character-driven story--with A Study in Scarlet Women is the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

  • A Short Bossy Break

    got these books going at the moment: recently published fantasy-historical fiction, the second in a 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.

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

    month: two historical fiction stories, gothic magical realism, science fiction, a character-driven mystery , and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mysteries. American Girl by Wendy Walker This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House In A Murderous Relation, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house of debauchery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition

    Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction fantasy mystery Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery A Marvellous Light was full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery, magic, wonderful dialogue to an elderly woman on an ocean liner (so she can help her beloved older brother resolve a magical mystery Is it possible that Marcellus holds the key to finding answers regarding her son's mysterious disappearance

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition

    Cosby's Southern small-town murder mystery, All the Sinners Bleed; and I'm reading The Night Tiger author Bao, a detective set on uncovering the mystery of the woman's identity and death, has long been fascinated also the author of The Night Tiger, a title I listed in my Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • 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 The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

    Henry Thornton is a wealthy railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary Five years later, the crown reappears--spurring more mystery and questions than answers.

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/13/23 Edition

    But one by one, the Osage began to be killed under mysterious circumstances. Edgar Hoover turning to a former Texas Ranger, Tom White, to head up the group trying to figure out the mystery Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/6/23 Edition

    A mysterious app on her phone seems to have all of the answers she needs--but Lai isn't sure what the read this final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery through unexpected attractions and the uncovering of weighty secrets, the group works to unravel the mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition

    witty time-travel story The Ministry of Time; I'm listening to Only If You're Lucky, Stacy Willingham's mystery Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many civil servants offered a mysterious Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house for the summer

  • Review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

    Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious

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

    A mystery surrounds a deadly moment, and the book ends with a hopeful, imperfect, heartbreaking way forward story of young love blossoming, then shriveling under the first pressures of the outside world; it's a mystery Please click here for my full review of This American Woman . 04 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Mysteries 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 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros

    But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved The ending leaves us on another cliffhanger and sets up potentially intriguing, mysterious conflicts

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List

    For my full review of this book, please see The Wedding People . 02 A Mystery and a Poignant Family Story (Now in Paperback) Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery, but Happiness Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what Click here   for my full review of You Are Here . 04 A Modern, Darkly Funny Mystery Listen for the Lie In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious

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