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  • 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 A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

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

  • 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, 12/2/24 Edition

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

  • 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 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 Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi

    This is an engaging and quick read, and the old-fashioned mystery stories within the story are intriguing The murder mystery stories were written decades before the book's present-day events take place and are There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder mystery The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures #mysterysuspense, #booksaboutbooks, #gothicnoir

  • 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 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?

  • 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, 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 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

  • 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 Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

    In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made

  • 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

  • Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore

    her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery I like a mystery that makes me care about the characters and doesn't foreshadow too much. #mysterysuspense, #siblings, #dysfunctionalfamily, #fourstarbookreview

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition

    This title was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read. 03 Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters ruined by sinister I'm alternating between a fictionalized celebrity story with heart; a young adult mystery with a nerdy heroine and a dark plot twist; and a prolific mystery author's first in a series, where almost everyone

  • Review of Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

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

  • 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.

  • 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 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

  • 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 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

  • 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 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, 9/16/24 Edition

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

  • Review of Trust No One (Devlin and Falco #1) by Debra Webb

    Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of If you like mysteries, you might also want to look at the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition

    the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction book Grit; and reading Katherine Faulkner's new mystery When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--she threatens to

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/20/22 Edition

    Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided

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

    Determined not to give up on the musical, Riley sneaks and works on a master plan for a performance-- Gillian McAllister The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time  is back with a smart, twisty mystery 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

  • Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

    connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens

  • 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

  • Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious

  • Review of Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

    Then a mysterious stranger arrives--seemingly drawn by her wavering between life and death--and promises

  • Six Long Contemporary Novels to Sink Into

    She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds immensely readable book rich in period detail, with great dialogue and satisfying elements of love, mystery making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master

  • Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn

    Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries

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