King's dry, lovely mystery featuring a retired Sherlock Holmes and a young Mary Russell, The Beekeeper's crews on quests, please check out the titles at this link. 02 The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell Mystery Soon they're working together to solve the mystery of a senator's kidnapped daughter, and Mary is quickly King is also the author of many other mysteries. 03 Mother Tongue: A Memoir by Sara Novic When Sara Nović

The diary's author is a Lutheran pastor who met and was witness to the fantastical, frightening, brutal The man, who reveals that he was called Good Stab by his family and friends, appears mysteriously in

end of her marriage, Strangers ; I'm listening to Listen for the Lie author Ashley Elston's upcoming mystery Anatomy of an Alibi ; and I'm listening to Jennifer Givhan's mystery-thriller-horror story featuring courtesy of NetGalley and Random House. 02 Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston I loved Ashley Elston's mystery one of my Bossy Fiction Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List ; and it was on my recent list of Four-Star Mysteries novel Salt Bones made it onto multiple best-of lists for 2025, and I've been in a mystery-reading mood

She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery

Mad is quickly developing revenge fantasies involving her dad, but a cross-country road trip in close

Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious she swore she'd never do: return to her hometown and the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery

There's a book of short stories; one nonfiction book; a memoir; an atmospheric, mysterious novel; historical rom-com with a historical fiction element; a story about music and sisters told in two timelines; a mystery that's full of surprises; and a historical fiction mystery. 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.

Graham's Cold War Cookbook . 02 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's I looove a historical fiction mystery. you do too, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor , which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction

estranged parents, her other heartbreaking losses, her unaccounted-for hours sleepwalking, and others' mysterious podcaster taking too deep of an interest in Isabelle's personal past rather than trying to solve the mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key plot point of Willingham's newest mystery Click here for Bossy reviews of more mystery and suspense books.

In Holly Jackson's young adult mystery sequel, we revisit the brave, faulted, irresistible character Yay, the fantastic character of Pippa Fitz-Amobi is baaaaack! In Good Girl, Bad Blood, Holly Jackson's sequel to the wonderful young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank you very much) the mystery Jackson offers layer upon layer of intrigue and twisty turns in this mystery.

spreading happiness; I'm reading the third in Naomi Novik's dark, wonderful Scholomance series, the fantasy Novik is also the author of many other wonderful fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love. 03

#timetravel, #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview 02 Here and Now and Then ​ Kin Stewart was When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds

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

Much of Ginder's novel is focused on a revenge fantasy, but I was drawn more to Nancy Harrison's strong but I had trouble locking into the story's tone, which wavers into extended dark, vindictive revenge fantasies

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

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

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

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

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

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

favorite reads of December--a nonfiction wonder, a bonkers fever dream, a heartwarming tale, an intriguing mystery boxes, a funny and poignant story about living fully into oneself, and a solid installment in a great mystery Voss  is a bighearted novel with an irresistible main protagonist and surrounding players, and the mystery I can't wait to read her next mystery. Now she awaits her mysterious boss Mr.

during Pandemic Times, one of the genres I find myself gravitating toward listening to is young adult fantasy I think the pacing and the fantastical worlds lend themselves well to audiobook form. Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children in orphanages, to a mysterious Linus is expected to report back with details about what Arthur Parnassus, the mysterious master on site Plus there is something mysterious about both the caretakers of the children and island, like maybe something

their family move to rural Vermont, Country People; and I'm listening to Amy Bloom's first foray into mystery In Blunt Instrument, she dives into mysteries, offering a private investigator whose father's past association a prepublication electronic version of this book courtesy of NetGalley and Penzler Publishers: The Mysterious

The Books I'm Reading Now Library audiobook alert: I'm listening to the twisty mystery First Lie Wins Now she awaits her mysterious boss Mr. Ibrahim are septuagenarians feeling let down after the thrills, danger, and success of their first solved mystery

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

collection: historical fiction, a couple of rom-coms, a nonfiction journey, contemporary fiction, and a fantasy The relationship is one to root for, and I really liked the minor mystery, supporting characters, and

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

The Books I'm Reading Now This week I'm listening to a mystery about writers tasked with competing to are invited to the private Scottish island and castle where the reclusive Arthur Fletch, bestselling mystery But when they arrive, they find that Fletch, who had been working on a new mystery, is dead.

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

These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea ​ I like to listen to fantasy Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children in orphanages, to a mysterious Linus is expected to report back with details about what Arthur Parnassus, the mysterious master on site

This bighearted novel holds a mystery, but its main focus is  neurodivergent main protagonist Denny and A mystery buiilt upon a neurodivergent main protagonist's challenges with the surrounding world and thriving Voss is a bighearted novel with an irresistible main protagonist and surrounding players, and the mystery

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

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

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

Her pain and the mysterious sources of her frequent agony affected every aspect of her life, and Dunham Through years of various mysterious, excruciating, debilitating ailments, conditions, and limitations

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

And I was disappointed to have easily guessed the facts at the heart of the minor mystery. And I guessed the facts surrounding the minor mystery surrounding those events early on, which was disappointing

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

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.

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

Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house next to a

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

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.

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 .

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

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.

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

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.

Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books

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