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  • A Steeping of Blood (Blood and Tea #2) by Hafsah Faizal

    installment in Hafsah Faizal's young adult Blood and Tea series offered intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/8/21 Edition

    Now I'm reading what may be a perfect summer read with plenty of nostalgia; a dark, mythology-filled mystery

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/12/25 Edition

    family drama and dating again, Definitely Better Now ; and I'm listening to Jacqueline Harpman's eerie, mysterious Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange.

  • 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition

    and a gothic setting in 19th-century Scotland; I'm reading Kate Atkinson's most recent Jackson Brodie mystery string of unsolved art thefts--and he's led to Burton Makepeace, an old hotel that also hosts Murder Mystery

  • Review of A Time of Witches by Madeline Martin

    trials of 1645 and builds a link between one of the accused and a modern-day woman coming into her own mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition

    a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery potentially heartbreaking and heartwarming book about unlikely friendship and a young man's bravery; a mystery

  • 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

  • Review of Habits of the Sea by Shea Earnshaw

    Nova Scotia, she stumbles onto Clay and his island and upon stepping foot upon its land, enters into a mysterious Will the mysterious man on the island answer her questions or allow her to enter it, if she can even

  • Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

    #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #twostarbookreview

  • Review of The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

    I was intrigued by the explanation for one of the long-term mysteries of the book (the stealing and odd Do you feel that likable or sympathetic characters are necessary for you to feel invested in a mystery #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview

  • 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,

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    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 Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

    incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming mystery set in glamorous Capri by Katy Hays, Saltwater year, the wealthy, powerful Lingate family returns to Capri as thought to quash rumors about Sarah's mysterious

  • My Six Favorite Reads of the First Half of 2025

    As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately Click here   for my full review of The Boy from the Sea . 06 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

  • 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

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

    ) by Freya Marske The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery Robin and Edwin's love is romantic and sweet and heartbreaking and sexy; the mystery at the heart of camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

  • Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens

    Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in

  • Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

    Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, the appearance of additional silent companions, haunting stories

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/27/21 Edition

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

  • Review of The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

    The mystery isn't over--Truly Devious led to the disappearance of Alice Ellingham decades ago, and now And the mysterious deaths of people connected to Ellingham Academy aren't over. #series, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview

  • Review of The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

    they have any hope of rewriting their tale--and of saving the island--they must identify and stop the mysterious

  • Review of The Knave and the Moon (Stonewater Kingdom #2) by Rachel Gillig

    At the first of a series of tournaments meant to illustrate Benji's control, a mysterious knight becomes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/24/26 Edition

    a real-life tragedy in Nova Scotia during World War I, When the World Fell Silent; I'm listening to mystery

  • 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 Maud must identify the murderer, try to get her hands on a magical object essential to untangling the mystery

  • Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

    Despite the mysterious disappearances of children that are at the heart of the story, this primarily watching police shows), his youthful belief that he and a ragtag group of friends can quickly resolve the mystery #mysterysuspense, #india

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

    Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd The Final Act of Juliette Lloyd  is a historical fiction art-focused mystery wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) offers a gorgeously wrought historical fiction mystery The mysterious appearance of what seems to be a Juliette Willoughby original, followed by a tragic death , while an unorthodox, brilliant investigator and her stalwart new assistant work to solve a murder mystery Ana is Sherlock Holmes-esque in that she holds many of the answers to the mysteries that abound--but

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/27/26 Edition

    music and the bonds between mothers and sons, Little Wonder; and I'm listening to Sally Hepworth's mystery

  • Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

    VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. Through a series of unexpected events, she is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but

  • Review of Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

    the foggy coast with its literal deadly pitfalls hidden throughout the sand perfectly reflects the mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/4/23 Edition

    Over the course of the past two books, the Bayview Four solved mysteries and established that they were and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and fresh faces--in a new set of intertwined, mysterious unexpected comes to town, our sleuths realize that not everyone is who they say they are; that old mysteries

  • Review of Both Can Be True by Jessica Guerrieri

    This element doesn't exactly lend the novel a mystery feel, but there's an undercurrent of uncertainty

  • 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, 3/20/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; adapt her surprise feminist bestseller into a movie--without losing her integrity or being derailed by mysterious But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and Then mysterious threats begin appearing within the script, aimed at the writers who are picking apart

  • Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

    The Villa is gothic suspense told in two timelines, both at the same Italian villa, where dark mysteries flighty Chess is a popular, single self-help author and influencer, while Emily, who is emerging from a mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series of cozy mysteries Hawkins takes us back and forth from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease

  • Review of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper

    of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

    on the tone of this one yet; Connor is a little snarky, but I believe the plot is going to include mystery #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face ​ Has Colin Jost lived long enough to Concurrently reading a young adult LGBTQ mystery, a comedian's memoir, and a historical fiction story

  • Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

    There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition

    I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 1930s Chicago and her mysterious listening to Rebecca Makkai's novel I Have Some Questions for You (also to be published tomorrow), about a mysterious boarding school and a return to the case and all the past issues it raises; and I'm reading the newest mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's newest mystery

  • Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

    or stops abruptly, and I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by this method of prolonging a mystery

  • Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

    setup of key characters leaving off without finishing their illuminating thoughts in order to keep the mystery

  • Review of The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman

    revisiting how shaped we can be by our youth and youthful connections, Kauffman weaves in some minor mystery

  • 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

  • Review of The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner

    Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery.

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

    and race in Britain; a revenge fantasy with magical realism interwoven throughout; and a new-to-me mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/15/25 Edition

    The first installment in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series offered intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery

  • Review of Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel

    I thought Wrobel's tone was masterful; it wasn't clear who was manipulating the situation and who was #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #fourstarbookreview

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