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  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition

    holds and due dates have dictated another interesting mix of books for my current reading life with a fantasy I feel like mysteries, light fiction, memoirs, and fantasy are working well for me--plus historical fiction

  • 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? sixth book of the wonderful Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction 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 Skyhunter by Marie Lu

    Just look at this gorgeously mesmerizing cover for Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin

  • Review of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

    I loved the futuristic space-mission capabilities, smart and strong all-woman crew, the mystery and suspicion 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 You might also like Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans, and Alien Life and AI, Six More Fantastic

  • 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 My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

    the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary Queen of Scots--with an oddball fantasy This is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

  • 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 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition

    01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series

  • Review of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

    over, paid for, published, successful, and various rights are sold all feels like a happy dream-state fantasy

  • Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding

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

    series; a quirky, campy mystery and revenge fantasy; and a young adult thriller with outlandish circumstances There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery After a series of almost slapstick misunderstandings, Finlay is left a mysterious note implying that Cosimano's mystery has a wonderfully quirky setup and campy tone.

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling For the Tween Mystery Fan 04 The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Along with The chance, I'll be giving a certain someone this 2025 title, described as " a whimsical, adventure-filled mystery But the place is filled with young ladies solving mysteries, protecting the city, and fighting bad guys

  • Review of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

    That book introduced the fantastic best-friend character of Felicity "Fizzy" Chen. It can be, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn’t about the fantasy of being

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/30/24 Edition

    preacher Beth Moore's memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life ; I'm listening to Melissa Caruso's time-travel fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition

    Henry Thornton is a 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. Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye, The Huntress, The Rose Code, and The

  • 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 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 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

  • 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.

  • Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge

    More Revenge Fantasies...and Revenge Enacted Mwaa haa ha! Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery

  • Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire

    Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

  • Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

    Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition

    to have going on at once: a fictional, varied look at modern feminism and race in Britain; a revenge fantasy with magical realism interwoven throughout; and a new-to-me mystery author's current character-driven

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition

    rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition

    And I'm listening to The Blood of the Old Kings , the first in Sung-Il Kim's fantasy series in which

  • Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman

    stories about sharp, disparate septuagenarians who meet to resolve cold cases--then aim to solve the mysteries In this first installment in Osman's mystery series, the story begins in medias res , as the reader witnesses And you can find Bossy reviews of many other mysteries here .

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Only a few Antari have been born in a generation, and they have long been the only ones with the power If you've read the Shades of Magic books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition

    Henry's upcoming romance story-within-a-story, Great Big Beautiful Life ; I'm listening to the first mystery in a series, The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens; and I'm reading Charlotte McConaghy's haunting and mysterious Story , Happy Place , and Book Lovers . 02 The Life We Bury ( Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens In this mystery When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

  • 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.

  • 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, 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, 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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, 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 .

  • 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

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/14/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a memoir about coping with chronic illness; a twisty mystery in which people aren't always what they seem; and a young adult mystery with heart, the second in a series was a twentysomething writer in New York City when she began having odd symptoms, terrible pain, and mysterious Laura Dave is setting up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery so far; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace a mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/20 Edition

    But I'm still excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in When a mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, our main protagonist Talin

  • Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

    In his newest book, Wiley Cash offers a mystery and police procedural set in a small Southern town. abandoned airplane are found in his quiet, coastal North Carolina town, Winston must try to unravel the mystery But I really like Cash's character-driven mystery writing, and I'm definitely in for reading his future

  • 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, 3/7/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young , Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama; and I'm listening to the first in the prolific Marie Lu's young adult fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/9/23 Edition

    This Woven Kingdom is the first in Tahereh Mafi's fantasy trilogy of the same name.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition

    a beautiful modern classic from a bestselling author who writes about faith and life; and a recent mystery is Alexandra Andrews's first book, and so far the mystery's twists and turns are fantastic.

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

    In her second fantastic short-story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld explores middle age, fame, friendship review please check out The Favorites . 06 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time  is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully heavy on character Famous Last Words  is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian McAllister. I loved this smart mystery that relies heavily on character development and mental agility for our narrator

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