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  • Review of Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

    I adored the romantic setup and seemingly ill-fated attraction in Saft's young adult fantasy-mystery, Meanwhile she's desperate to solve the mystery of her fellow soldiers and friends who keep disappearing I felt dissatisfied with the logistics surrounding much of the resolving of the mystery--as well as with

  • Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March

    This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies There are disturbingly dark issues underlying the mystery (including strict rules about caste and class Nev March won the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award for this, her debut title. You might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition

    Wolfe Going into Thanksgiving weekend with an Elizabethan mystery in hand, complete with intrigue, plotting loyalists looming over Elizabeth's court, Nicholas Holt, a spy for Sir Francis Walsingham, must unravel the mystery This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. 03 Light fiction, historical fiction mystery, and celebrity memoir. I recently offered a roundup of Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism if that feels down your

  • 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 I included To the Bright Edge of the World in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Ivey also wrote The Snow Child , a book I listed in the Greedy Reading List   Six Magical Fairy Tales

  • Review of Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson

    The fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious young adult mystery series showcases Stevie Bell's instincts Her passion is solving mysteries, and, luckily, she finds a satisfying distraction in the form of the unsolved mystery involving David's new British friend's aunt--one of the friends in the group who had The mystery's resolution isn't too easy, and Stevie leans on procedure, dogged determination, and her More from Maureen Johnson Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery

  • 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. Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer , and The Snow Child , which I included in the list Six Can Marlowe solve the mystery of what happened there before she is targeted as the next victim?

  • 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 Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six 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 Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/3/20 Edition

    I recently mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to This one went straight to the top of my young adult mystery reading list. #youngadult, #mystery What are you reading now?

  • Review of An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) by Deanna Raybourn

    While Veronica and Stoker stay close to home while entering into danger and solving the mysteries in book six of this series, Raybourn repeatedly evokes images of the fictional European country Alpenwald sixth book of the wonderful Deanna Raybourn's  feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Part of the mystery went in the direction I anticipated, which I didn't mind at all, and there's a ramped-up danger and secondary mystery that is chilling in its unflinching detail toward the end of the book.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition

    Beresford pieces together the story of Hannah's life from her first-person account--and tries to solve a mystery Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

  • 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 I mentioned these books in the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition

    soon-to-be-published young adult rom-com, I Hope This Doesn't Find You; and I'm listening to a historical fiction mystery Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious I mentioned these books in the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully novel This Time It's Real, read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year, Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, and

  • 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 I recently posted a Greedy Reading List of Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space. You might also like Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans, and Alien Life and AI, Six More Fantastic

  • 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 the author of Ninth House , Hell Bent , the King of Scars series ( Rule of Wolves is book two), the Six of Crows series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally

  • 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 The Measure by Nikki Erlick

    In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

  • Ten Bossy Spring Favorites

    There's a book of short stories; one nonfiction book; a memoir; an atmospheric, mysterious novel; historical that's full of surprises; and a historical fiction mystery. You  and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved . 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, 2/12/24 Edition

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

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

    You might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West. 02 Killers 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, 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. like to read fiction about music, you might also like the titles I included in the Greedy Reading List Six So far this is a cute--at times a little too cute for my taste--mystery that seems sure to be headed

  • Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

    But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was. Ivey is also the author of To the Bright Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in  the Heat of Summer , and The Snow Child , which I included in the list Six

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

    Bossy Favorites of the Month These were my six favorite reads of December--a nonfiction wonder, a bonkers fever dream, a heartwarming tale, an intriguing mystery that ticked all of my boxes, a funny and poignant story about living fully into oneself, and a solid installment in a great mystery series. I can't wait to read her next mystery. Now she awaits her mysterious boss Mr.

  • 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 How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

    book that Michelle's inner workings will not be revealed to Helen or to the reader, and they remain a mystery Bossy reviews of lighter fiction or rom-com books I've loved, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six More of my Favorite Romantic Fiction Reads from the Past Year Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My

  • 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 If you like stories about witches, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You.

  • Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

    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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition

    Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman I recently started watching "The Last Movie Stars," a six-part the Newman's Own brand. 03 The Night Ship by Jess Kidd 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.

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading in the heat of August. 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 The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/28/23 Edition

    narrative nonfiction set in the late nineteenth century West; I'm reading Kate Morton's dual-timeline mystery You might also be interested in the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West. 02 Homecoming Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of coming home.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery If you're interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/26/26 Edition

    fiction novel The Secret Book Society , and I'm listening to the first in John McMahon's FBI-focused mystery I included Lincoln in the Bardo  in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories #1) by John McMahon I'm not sure where I heard about this book, but I believe it was in a roundup of mystery

  • My Favorite Science Fiction Reads of the Year

    You might also like the Greedy Reading lists of past years' Bossy favorites: Six Four Star (And Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into Six More Science Fiction Favorites In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

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

    realism, science fiction, a character-driven mystery, and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mysteries. Novels and Six More Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. 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

  • 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 I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and You might also want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fascinating Dystopian

  • 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. like to read fiction about music, you might also like the titles I included in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love

    #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview 02 My Lady Jane: The Lady Janies Series ​ I'd had

  • Review of The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

    The only thing that isn't a lie is her mysterious ability to instinctually, instantaneously heal others I listed Amina in the Greedy Reading List Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy Blake Crouch's Upgrade here , my review of his novel Recursion (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six The slim book traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand

  • 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 Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

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

    included several books from some of my very favorite authors: the next in a great historical fiction mystery lakeside summertime romance; a 1980s-set astronaut story with feminism and LGBTQ love; a Maine-set mystery Deanna Raybourn While Veronica and Stoker stay close to home while entering into danger and solving the mysteries sometimes running over) the local police chief to try to find a missing teen and untangle past unsolved mysteries In book two of the Martini Club, the mystery at hand--a missing teen--draws in local citizens as well

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

    Here are my six favorites, although I had to deliberate a little bit before settling on this list. This mystery hit the spot for me. Reads  , Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year , Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved , Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads , or these other nonfiction books I've reviewed . 06 The Knight book in Rachel Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series, The Knight and the Moth , considers Sybil Delling ("Six

  • 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 You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens If you like Westerns, you might want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and  Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American

  • Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

    like to check out some of my Bossy memoir reviews , or some of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition

    If you're interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality. In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads

    In the summer I posted My Six Favorite Reads of the First Half of 2025 , and all six of those books appear For my full review, please see Everything Is Tuberculosis . 03 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 As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately

  • 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 the author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time , a book I loved and not only listed in my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

    ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Leigh Bardugo's interconnected Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows

  • Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

    You might also be interested in the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions The mystery of the book centers around a post-war haven for soldiers mentally and physically harmed by But the mystery takes a back seat in the book to Maisie's explorations of human motivations, her interest Check out this Greedy Reading List for Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

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