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  • 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 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

  • 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, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads

    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

  • Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    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

  • 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

  • Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood World War II-era orphanage has died under mysterious

  • Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

    great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon pieces of a giant robot and makes solving the mystery to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts she stumbled across as a child, but the mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition

    But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved

  • Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson

    heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries

  • Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1) by Hank Green

    featuring unorthodox friendships, the frightening power of social media, the emergence of alien life, and mysterious able to communicate with the Carls--thereby becoming the spokesperson for a movement to protect the mysterious

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious

  • Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

    colonizers expect Anequs to either adhere to their strict customs and expectations--all of which are a mystery

  • Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

    Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving This is my first Lisa Gardner book, and I love how character driven the mystery was.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery

  • Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson

    I read this young adult mystery in a day, it was so good. writing her college application essays, but she is doggedly determined to get to the bottom of this mystery I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read as well

  • Review of The Witch Elm by Tana French

    Within a suspenseful mystery structure, French explores privilege, interconnectedness, and the many shades This is a lurking, suspenseful Tana French mystery, so I was plowing through it as usual, eager to find

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

    This is a character-driven mystery with a twist. This is a character-driven mystery with an interesting twist. That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/31/22 Edition

    and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious the suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/25 Edition

    When a neighbor dies mysteriously, Cordelia's mother insists they leave town in the middle of the night

  • 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

  • Review of The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

    emotions surrounding having been assaulted in the past—in order to try to get information about the mystery If you like mysteries with twist, you may be in for Molloy's newest book, Goodnight Beautiful.

  • 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

  • Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

    It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is when these individuals then disappear, Alex doesn't feel the impetus to explore their letters or a mystery

  • The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

    Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition

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

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World

    As always, Tyson breaks down the mysteries of the universe into understandable pieces, using humor and globe, operate as one system, "powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials cutting-edge research. 09 Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery the remarkable cooperation across many branches of science that led scientists to "solve the great mystery

  • Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

    deeply developed, but twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't feel plausible, but its twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery

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

    In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition

    during the communist coup of 1978, Sparks Like Stars; I'm reading Lisa Gardner's recently published mystery Stars as an audiobook. 02 One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery

  • Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    This Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light fiction/rom-com, mystery, fantasy, contemporary out 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

  • Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI

    A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts, but the mysteries

  • Review of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

    Then a mysterious package arrives at the shop, and A.J. Fikry is suddenly...changed.

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    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

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

    ; The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave's great mystery that offers unexpected (but not manipulative) McManus's great, character-driven sequel to her young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying; and The Great behind looming secrets whose answers her mother took to her grave, establishes the link between the mysteries Laura Dave sets up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to work together McManus Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through

  • 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, 2/5/24 Edition

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

  • Review of Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone #1) by Alexandra Bracken

    Along the way, they face deathly threats, mysterious magic, a tangled web of lore and superstition, and

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