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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition

    newest fiction, described as an Appalachian David Copperfield; and I'm reading Rachel Hawkins's upcoming mystery The Villa is gothic suspense set at an Italian villa, where dark mystery and wicked turns abound.

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/6/23 Edition

    Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. Looking for Jane is a story of three timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/13/23 Edition

    client on the page and then in real life; and I'm reading Maria Dong's suspenseful novel that explores mystery is also a suspenseful page-turner, as Katrina follows various clues to try and resolve the menacing, mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/10/25 Edition

    When she catches wind of a valuable, mysterious piece of technology on another planet, she banks on her

  • Review of Herrick's End (The Neath #1) by T.M. Blanchet

    He searches for her, then receives a mysterious note: "Still looking for your friend? But the trail Ollie finds himself on leads to darkness and danger in a mysterious underworld.

  • Review of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

    When she stumbles across extensive communications from Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young

  • Six of My Favorite Fantasy Reads of the Year

    unexpected attractions to each other and the uncovering of weighty secrets, the group works to unravel the mysterious Faizal The first installment in Faizal's Blood and Tea series offers intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery Tempest of Tea . 06 Bride by Ali Hazelwood Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery As a child, Misery was given up by her family and community as collateral to keep the peace. But Misery has her own reasons for willingly entering into this marriage--her best friend's safety may

  • Review of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

    When a neighbor in their rural (seemingly English but unspecified) town dies mysteriously, Cordelia's

  • Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had The quiet main protagonist Bill is a hero; he musters forgiveness for painful events in his past while

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

    Inside, the mysterious Kokoro Clinic for the Soul prescribes medicine to those looking for support and

  • Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper

    This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. On the Tasmanian coast, characters explore loss and grief and the swirling mysteries surrounding long-ago Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak

  • Six of My Favorite Book Club Books of 2023

    Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences. 05 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while mysterious by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery An overly convenient situation and moment of chitchat pushes the main mystery of the story to a head-

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/21/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading What Happened to the Bennetts, the upcoming mystery from the prolific 01 What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline In Lisa Scottoline's upcoming mystery What Happened Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

  • Review of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

    intrigue and suspense; this is a patiently paced story of a time and place—which happens to have a mystery

  • Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

    Jackson's gothic horror tale is made all the more frightening by its reliance on terror, shadows, and mystery unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has witnessed mysterious Jackson's gothic horror tale is made all the more frightening by its reliance on terror, shadows, and mystery

  • Review of The Project by Courtney Summers

    of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the seemingly harmless, benevolent group The I'm intrigued by stories about secrets and mysterious communities or private groups, so the focus on

  • 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 Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) by Tracy Deonn

    as she explores her own heritage, flexes her newfound power, and digs into the story of her mother's mysterious Was her mother connected to all of these mysterious goings-on?

  • 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 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

  • Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

    Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at water (I'm sorry, but I can't stop the puns), making the reader wonder about the nature of multiple mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

  • 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,

  • Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

    A mysterious app on her phone seems to have all of the answers she needs--but Lai isn't sure what the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/25 Edition

    Virginia Evans's charming epistolary novel The Correspondent ; and I'm listening to Karin Slaughter's mystery

  • Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

    But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition

    Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous five years ago); and I'm listening to Karen Thompson Walker's speculative mystery

  • Review of The Summer War by Naomi Novik

    centuries-old war her people have waged against the ruthless summerlings--and the ferocious grudges those mysterious

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

    celebrity memoir from a larger-than-life performer; a comedian's funny memoir; a fast-paced WWII-set mystery 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

  • Review of Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

    But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition

    Medard's Bay was also the center of a media whirlwind in the early 1980s following the mysterious death

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

    melded into another: young friendship, serial killer, outlaw search, small-town intrigue, and longtime mysteries But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious act as a Hollywood movie star, linking the story's two timelines and revealing long-held secrets and mysteries

  • Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition

    The only thing that isn't a lie is her mysterious ability to instinctually, instantaneously heal others

  • Six Fantastic Novels Set in North Carolina

    abandoned airplane are found in his quiet, coastal North Carolina town, Winston must try to unravel the mystery underbelly of their rural North Carolina town, and basically everything about this intricate literary mystery-thriller The Last Child appears in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

  • Review of Good Material by Dolly Alderton

    I listened to Good Material as an audiobook. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

  • Review of Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth

    Elaborate mythology swirls around the mysterious author of the blockbuster fantasy series The Falling

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/21/25 Edition

    reading: The Summer Guests , Tess Gerritsen's newest Martini Club offering, which centers around a mystery

  • Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link

    Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection of

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

    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

  • Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate

    The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her loyal friends making plucky efforts to uncover sister Autumn has been emotionally closed off since their mother died and has become involved in a mysterious The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her wonderfully loyal friends making plucky efforts Greedy Reading List Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition, as well as in Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries

  • Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

    Jess Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery tale gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy Various depraved and frighteningly cruel characters help drive the story of Things in Jars and add to the mystery Oh, and a mysterious, dangerous, but tragic child-creature-mermaid necessitates detective work and a In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Victorian London, which I love, within a creepy mystery liked recently was A Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical fiction, mystery

  • Review of What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

    of the book, in which Jane and her father are entrenched in their own world, driven by her father's mysterious

  • Review of The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr

    As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition

    fraternity members and a multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition

    depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel, mysteries and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of her eight remaining selves mysteriously dies, shocking secrets are revealed that connect

  • Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo

    Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the resolution of the mystery coming, and I was Brutal violence is at the heart of the mystery--and there's enough bashing people over the head that But Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the mystery's resolution coming, and I was

  • Six Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious

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